Jaqi Aru An online community with the commitment to promote the native language of Aymara on the Internet. Through the use of translations and the creation of content using digital media, we want to contribute and enrich the content in our language in cyberspace. About In 2007, two of Jaqi […]
Aymara • Bolivia • community media • digital • indigenous communities • indigenous language • South AmericaTechnology and Language Revitalization: A Conspectus
Increasingly the world’s indigenous people are recognizing the value of using digital environments in the battle against the extinction of their languages and cultures (Hermes & King 2013). Likewise as indigenous languages become increasingly visible on the internet, perceptions of them as antiquated, irrelevant or anachronistic in the Information Age are […]
Africa • Arctic • Asia • Central America • Europe • First Nations • indigenous language • language and technology • language documentation • language learning • Middle East • North America • Pacific • revitalization • South America • virtual classroomCommunity Owned Best Practice for Sustainable Resource Adaptive Management (COBRA)
Welcome to Project Cobra Increasing confidence across indigenous communities by: – Discussing the challenges facing their community; – Identifying their own solutions to these challenges; – Recording these solutions using visual technologies; – Sharing their results with other communities; – Implementing best practices from other communities. Short description: We use participatory […]
best practice • development • resources management • South America • sustainabilityInformation Communications Technologies and Regional Integration: Africa and South America
This paper examines the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and regional integration as a pathway to socio-economic development in Africa and South America. Both regions face a colonial legacy often characterized by stronger external economic and political ties to the developed world than between the countries in the […]
2007 • Africa • colonization / colonialism • ICT4D • regional • South AmericaICTS for Intercultural Dialogue: An Overview of UNESCO’s Indigenous Communication Project
Abstract Using ICTs to preserve and revitalize Indigenous cultures and to promote intercultural dialogue is the aim of UNESCO’s ICT4ID Project. Five pilot projects were conducted in 2004-2005 in Africa and South America to train Indigenous people in ICTs, support production of local content and assist in its distribution. Three […]
2006 • Africa • asset management • challenges • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • representation • revitalization • South America • UNESCOThe Asháninka and the Internet
The other day, I found an IDRC report about the Asháninka and their use of the Internet dating back to 2000. Coincidentally, the Atlantic just ran a post about the Asháninka based on some photos and text released by Survival International. I have cobbled various bits together below with the […]
2000 • 2011 • appropriate technology • Asháninka • Brazil • development • IDRC • impact of | ICTs • Internet use • Peru • South AmericaICTs and the Backstretch: an Ethnography
ICTs and the Backstretch: an Ethnography of the Backstretch Employees of the Saratoga Race Track and their use of the Backstretch Global Communications Center As Ellen McHale points out in An Ethnography of the Saratoga Racetrack, “the backstretch of the thoroughbred racetrack at Saratoga Springs, New York, is an ‘intentional’ […]
2009 • backstretch • ethnography • ICT4D • intentional community • Saratoga Springs • South America • telecenter