Community resilience in First Nations includes ties to people both inside and outside the community, intergenerational communication, the sharing of stories, and family and community connectedness. This study, based on a survey of Internet users in the Sioux Lookout region of Northwestern Ontario, explores the link between social networking sites […]
2014 • communication • culture | preservation • First Nations • indigenous communities • Internet use • social networkingMycitizen.net and its Roots in Burma
This post is the first in a three part series about Mycitizen.net by new Ethnos Project contributor, Christoph Amthor. Look for parts two and three over the next few weeks. Part 1: Mycitizen.net and its Roots in Burma Part 2: The Concept Behind Mycitizen.net Part 3: Developing and Testing Mycitizen.net […]
Burma • Myanmar • mycitizen.net • open source • social networkingmycitizen.net: Social Networking for Civil Society
Mycitizen.net is a free and open-source platform that facilitates social networking of local communities. It has been designed from the outset for the specific needs of civil society, particularly in closed societies and in countries in transition, it can be used with otherwise unsupported languages, where the Internet is very […]
civil society • community • localization • open source • platform • social networkingIntegration of indigenous knowledge with ICTs in coping with effects of climate change
Climate change threatens production’s stability and productivity. In many areas of the world where agricultural productivity is already low and the means of coping with adverse events are limited, climate change is expected to reduce productivity to even lower levels and make production more erratic. To help cope with the […]
2013 • agriculture • climate change • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Kenya • social networkingDigital leisure for development: Reframing new media practice in the global south
Photoshopping of newlyweds, downloading the latest movies, teens flirting on social network sites and virtual gaming may seem like typical behavior in the West; yet in the context of a village in Mali or a slum in Mumbai, it is seen as unusual and perhaps an anomaly in their new […]
2013 • ICT4D • leisure-oriented • prosumers • social media • social networkingICT for Development Network: Where digital, online technologies are central for social and economic development
ICT for Development Network is a section of The Communication Initiative (www.comminit.com) Mission: To convene the communication and media development, social and behavioural change community for more effective local, national, and international development action The CI’s Change Principles: People and organisations are more effective, efficient and work at greater scale […]
development • development communication • ICT4D • social change • social networkingInformation Technology and Indigenous Communities: symposium website
Information Technology and Indigenous Communities (ITIC) explored the ever-increasing use of IT to access, create and collate tangible and intangible cultural information and heritage. The torrent of new media and digitisation provides a wealth of opportunity for creativity, transmission and the decentralisation of collections and the information they contain. What […]
cultural heritage • digital tools • ICTs • indigenous communities • social networkingParticipatory Learning and Action: Change at Hand – Web 2.0 for Development
A joint publication of The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) Table of Contents PART I: OVERVIEW 1. Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside, Dave Jones and Giacomo Rambaldi 2. The two […]
2009 • CTA • development • ICT4D • IIED • indigenous language • mobile • participatory • social networking • Ushahidi • web 2.0