Mahabir Pun’s Wireless Nepal Project is an NGO founded in Nangi that is attempting to bring wireless Internet connections and information and communication technology infrastructures to all the villages in Nepal. Ten years in, the project has expanded to over 150 mountain villages and it continues to grow. Mahabir’s own […]
2014 • development • ICTs • Nangi • Nepal • village • Wireless Nepal ProjectLanguage documentation and division: Bridging the digital divide
Contemporary language documentation workflow is a largely digital process. While this has had many benefits for how linguists undertake language documentation projects, it has also lead to a disparity between how the process is conceptualised by academic researchers, and how it is conceptualised by the speakers of endangered languages. In […]
2015 • Aikuma • digital divide • documenting • language | preservation • Nepal • smart phoneGlobalization, Negotiating Technology, and Indigeneity in Nepal
This paper explores how indigenous peoples negotiate with their state and mainstream narratives by glocalizing indigenous political and cultural identities through virtual spaces offered by digital technology or information and communication technology (ICT). The first section makes an announcement of its concern about how globalization and indigeneity at some points […]
2013 • globalization • ICTs • identity • indigenous communities • localization • NepalBellanet Alliance
The Bellanet Alliance is an international network of organizations working to foster global and regional collaboration through a more effective use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and Knowledge Sharing practices. Operating as an independent and self-sustained alliance of social entrepreneurs in four well established regions of the world, Bellanet […]
Canada • collaboration • Costa Rica • development • ICTs • knowledge sharing / exchange • Nepal • research • Uganda