Abstract Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been applied successfully to numerous remote Indigenous communities around the world. The greatest gains have been made when requirements have been first defined by Indigenous members of the community then pattern matched to an ICT solution. Keywords: Information and Communication Technology, Indigenous Communities, […]
2006 • aboriginal • Australia • GIS • ICTs • indigenous communities • knowledge managementA Value Sensitive Design Approach to Indigenous Knowledge Management Systems
Indigenous cultures across the planet are disappearing. In 2007, Wade Davis, a Harvard-trained ethnobotanist, presented at the TED conference on the (subject of endangered cultures). He said, “When each of you in this room were born, there were 6,000 languages spoken on the planet . . . and of those […]
2008 • database • design • endangered language • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge management • modernity • oral tradition • western culture