The 2015 Festival was hosted by IRCA in partnership with PAW Media and Communications and the Lajamanu community with key partner Indigenous Community Television. For 5 days remote media workers and industry guests visited Gurindji and Warlpiri Country for an exciting industry program with skills workshops, roundtables, video screenings, live radio and TV […]
aboriginal • Australia • festival • indigenousDigitizing Indigenous History: Trends and Challenges
This is an exciting time for digitizing indigenous history. Leading digital humanists are engaging tribal communities in the creation of powerful online archives. The groundbreaking Mukurtu content management system (CMS), for example, is built on the very premise of indigenous curation or co-curation; it lets indigenous people control exactly what […]
2014 • archive • curation • digital collections • indigenous • indigenous communities • language | preservation • Mukurtu • postcolonial • revitalizationAfter the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge
Museum Anthropology Review, Vol 7, No 1-2 (2013) This double issue of Museum Anthropology Review collects papers originally presented at a January 2012 workshop titled “After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge.” Hosted by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and funded by the (U.S.) […]
culture | preservation • data • digital • indigenous • innovation • intellectual property • museumAboriginal Policy Research Consortium Launches IndigiLINK Network
The Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium (International) (APRCi) at Western University in London, Ontario is launching IndigiLINK network. This network will link the international indigenous community with noted experts in Indigenous research and policy development. See the FAQ below for more information. What is IndigiLINK? IndigiLINK is for professional social networking and […]
indigenous • network • portal • websiteChallenges Faced in Overcoming Indigenous Digital Divide in Brazil
This paper’s objective is to identify the level of digital inclusion made possible by Brazilian digital divide program Electronic Government – Citizen Attention Service (Governo Eletrônico – Serviço de Atendimento ao Cidadão – Gesac) on indigenous lands. We are guided by Brazilian sociologist Bernardo Sorj’s five level digital inclusion system: […]
2013 • Brazil • digital divide • GESAC • indigenous • internetTechnologies of Indigeneity: Indigenous Collective Identity Narratives in Online Communities
This thesis examines contemporary constructions of collective indigenous identity. It specifically focuses on the offline and online interactions among the members of Bibaknets, an online community for indigenous peoples from the highlands of the Cordillera Region, Philippines. The study explores the relational and positional nature of collective indigenous identity as […]
2013 • Bibaknets • Cordillera • empower • identity • indigenous • indigenous communities • indigenous technology • marginalized • PhilippinesIndigenous communities deploy high-tech mapmaking to staunch global land grab
With governments, loggers, miners and palm oil producers poaching their lands with impunity, indigenous leaders from 17 countries gathered on a remote island in Sumatra this week to launch a global fight for their rights that will take advantage of powerful mapping tools combined with indigenous knowledge to mark traditional […]
GIS • GPS • indigenous • land rights • mappingMexican village launches autonomous cellular network
A small indigenous village in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico launched what could be a new paradigm in local telecommunications services: a community-run carrier-grade autonomous cellular network. With the support of US-based international non-profit Rhizomatica, the Zapoteco village Villa Talea de Castro now offers cell phone service for its residents […]
cellular service • ICT • indigenous • network • Oaxaca | Mexico • Telcom • telecommunicationsMozilla Firefox in Indigenous Languages
The Mozilla in Mexico community supports efforts to translate and localize the internet browser Mozilla Firefox into indigenous languages of Latin America. Their website currently features modules for 26 indigenous languages across Mexico, Guatemala and Ecuador, including kichwa, tz’utujil, yaqui, and others. If you would like to install Mozilla Firefox […]
browser • firefox • indigenous • indigenous language • internet • localization • mozilla • software • translationSummit Addresses Indigenous Digital Divide in Australia
This post, written by Ethnos Curator Rachael Petersen, originally appeared on the Rising Voices website. Online heritage databases, an indigenous app to connect peoples worldwide, a network of recycled digital devices, and an Aboriginal digital social enterprise are just some of the responses to the focus of a recent summit […]
aboriginal • Australia • conference • design • ICT4D • indigenous • Torres Strait Islander