The Ethnos Project is now cross-posting on Blogger

The Ethnos Project is now cross-posting on Blogger.

The Ethnos Project is a research blog and information resource exploring the cultural impacts of information and communications technologies (ICTs) when used to

• affect social change,
• sustain and stimulate the rapidly disappearing traditions and languages of Indigenous peoples, and
• improve the quality of life of people on their own cultural terms.

This site is for scholars, activists, government agencies, non-governmental cultural organizations, Indigenous groups, and others interested in the use of ICTs for Indigenous knowledge management (IKM), language preservation, development (ICT4D), digital humanities, and more.

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By way of introduction, please peruse this post list from the Ethnos Project website (as of October 2, 2012).

• Oct 2, 12: IICD project profile: ICT for Strengthening the Capacities of Female Indigenous Leaders - Bolivia
• Oct 2, 12: ICTs and Indigenous People
• Sep 30, 12: Special Issue of the Journal of Material Culture: Digital Subjects, Cultural Objects
• Sep 30, 12: CFP: Puliima National Indigenous Language and Technology Forum 2013
• Sep 29, 12: Cry Rock: a short documentary about stories, memory and Nuxalk tradition
• Sep 28, 12: Digital Memories: Exploring Critical Issues
• Sep 22, 12: Connect a School, Connect a Community: Providing ICTs to Indigenous Peoples
• Sep 15, 12: CFP: 5th Global Conference: Digital Memories
• Sep 15, 12: Digitising and handling Indigenous cultural resources in libraries, archives and museums
• Sep 14, 12: Aboriginal Culture in the Digital Age
• Sep 14, 12: Digital Identity: The Construction of Virtual Selfhood in the Indigenous Peoples’ Movement
• Sep 5, 12: African Fractals, Virtual Bead Looms, and other Culturally Situated Design Tools
• Sep 4, 12: ICTs and Indigenous pedagogy: Techniques of resistance in chat rooms
• Sep 3, 12: Information Technology and Indigenous Communities: a research symposium
• Sep 2, 12: Indigenous Knowledge & the Cultural Interface: Underlying issues at the intersection of knowledge & information systems
• Sep 2, 12: Digitised Indigenous Knowledge in Cultural Heritage Organisations in Australia & New Zealand: An Examination of Policy and Protocols
• Sep 2, 12: Sustaining Indigenous Culture: The Structure, Activities, and Needs of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums
• Aug 19, 12: Taonga Online: Managing and Preserving Culture in a Digital Age
• Aug 18, 12: Research Project: Indigenous Knowledge Technologies (indiknowtech.org)
• Aug 18, 12: The Indigenous Languages and Technology (ILAT) Listserv
• Jul 29, 12: Our original aim was the same as usual: to bring them sustainable development
• Jul 26, 12: Smartphones promoted as a tool for indigenous forest protection
• Jul 24, 12: Plugging in Indigenous knowledge: connections and innovations
• Jul 21, 12: Towards Preserving Indigenous Oral Stories Using Tangible Objects
• Jul 15, 12: Time Machine 1986: Linguists call for TV to save Aboriginal languages
• Jul 15, 12: Indigenous Identities: Oral, Written Expressions and New Technologies
• Jul 11, 12: Participatory Learning and Action: Change at Hand - Web 2.0 for Development
• Jul 11, 12: Chumpi and the Waterfall: the future of the Achuar of Chicherta
• Jul 2, 12: Spider Stories 2011: ICT4D experiences, knowledge, & lessons learned
• Jul 1, 12: ICTs and New Indigenous Mobilities? Insights from Remote Northern Territory Communities
• Jul 1, 12: Other side of the divide: Latin-American and Caribbean Perspectives on the WSIS
• Jun 30, 12: Natives on the Electric Frontier: Technology and Cultural Change on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation
• Jun 26, 12: Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops? The Paiter Surui People & Google Earth...
• Jun 25, 12: FirstVoices Chat App enables Indigenous language speakers to text in their own language
• Jun 23, 12: Endangered Languages: a project to support language preservation and documentation around the world
• Jun 21, 12: Follow the Sun: Australian Indigenous Communities & Information Technologies
• Jun 21, 12: The Herero people of Erindiroukambe: using tablet PCs to preserve indigenous knowledge
• Jun 20, 12: Pacific-Oceania: Pacific Intangible Cultural Heritage Mapping Toolkit
• Jun 17, 12: How to build an Indigenous Digital Library through Community Participation: the case of the Ulwazi Programme
• Jun 15, 12: New book: Acción comunitaria en la red (Community Action in the Net)
• Jun 12, 12: Indigenous-Infused Digital Games: a New Model for Self-Sufficiency and Social Impact
• Jun 10, 12: Indigeneity and Technology: Podcast Interview with Dr. Michael Marker on Radio EPLT
• Jun 2, 12: The Evolving Braid: an Ethnography of Technology Change in Uganda
• May 24, 12: CFP: International Conference on Cultural Heritage (EuroMed 2012)
• May 24, 12: The Enduring Voices Project's Talking Dictionaries
• May 22, 12: Accelerating Development Using the Web: Empowering Poor & Marginalized Populations
• May 20, 12: What are you doing for World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue & Development?
• May 19, 12: ICTS for Intercultural Dialogue: An Overview of UNESCO’s Indigenous Communication Project
• May 16, 12: CFP: 12th Int'l Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries
• May 16, 12: Blacktracker: GPS-based Smartphone app for Indigenous Heritage
• May 15, 12: Dreamcatcher Informatics: Information Technology to Support Indigenous Peoples
• May 14, 12: CFP: Technology Design for ICT4D Initiatives: Challenges & Opportunities
• May 6, 12: Lokavidya goes virtual? Indigenous knowledge in the Gatesian Age
• May 3, 12: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage playlists 2008-2011
• May 3, 12: The Social Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies on Australian Indigenous Cultural Preservation Efforts
• Apr 25, 12: CFP: ICTs, New Media and Social Change in Africa
• Apr 17, 12: The Potential of the Internet for Development: Digital Divides and Uneven Geographies of Knowledge
• Apr 14, 12: Global Competition: Mobile4D Applications for Impact and Sustainability
• Apr 10, 12: CFP: ACM DEV 2013 - 3rd Symposium on Computing for Development
• Apr 6, 12: Designing for Social Change: Strategies for Community-Based Graphic Design
• Apr 6, 12: Mobile Technologies & Empowerment: Enhancing human development through participation & innovation
• Mar 24, 12: Organization Highlight: The Ulwazi Programme
• Mar 17, 12: Return: The Photographic Archive and Technologies of Indigenous Memory
• Mar 11, 12: Some challenges for Information and Communication Technologies in Indigenous Knowledge preservation
• Mar 11, 12: Access and Control of Indigenous Knowledge in Libraries and Archives: Ownership & Future Use
• Mar 11, 12: Cultural Imperialism & Pedagogical Possibilities Emerging from Youth Encounters w/ Internet in Africa
• Mar 7, 12: ICTs, KM and Indigenous Knowledge: Implications to Livelihood of Communities in Ethiopia
• Mar 6, 12: Organization Highlight: Living Cultural Storybases (LCS)
• Mar 6, 12: Open Source Native Language App Code
• Mar 6, 12: Travelling Through Layers: Inuit Artists Appropriate New Technologies
• Mar 4, 12: Digital Cultural Communication: Enabling new media and co­creation in South­East Asia
• Feb 27, 12: Queensland Stories: community, collections and digital technology at the State Library of Queensland
• Feb 19, 12: Information and Communication Technologies for Cultural Transmission Among Indigenous Peoples
• Feb 19, 12: Invisibility and the Ethics of Digitalisation: Designing So As Not To Hurt Others
• Feb 19, 12: CFP: IPID ICT4D Symposium 2012
• Feb 15, 12: Why to be Wary of “Design for Developing Countries”
• Feb 5, 12: IKRMNA: Making Collective Memories with Computers
• Jan 22, 12: Indigenous Language Usage in a Digital Library: He Hautoa Kia Ora Tonu Ai
• Jan 22, 12: Indigenous Knowledge Management: Software Tools, Rights Markup Extensions, and the Role of ICTs
• Jan 18, 12: Citizen-created content, digital equity and the preservation of community memory
• Jan 14, 12: Indigenous Digital Collections
• Jan 14, 12: CFP: Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2012
• Jan 9, 12: The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation
• Jan 9, 12: CFP: 3RD Global Interaction in Design Conference (2012)
• Jan 7, 12: Ilinniarnaqsivuq / Time for School
• Jan 7, 12: International Journal of Education and Development using ICT (IJEDICT)
• Jan 2, 12: Using ICT to place Indigenous Knowledge Systems at the heart of Education for Sustainable Development
• Dec 28, 11: Free & Open Source Digital Curation, Asset Management & Community Archiving Systems
• Dec 25, 11: The Asháninka and the Internet
• Dec 24, 11: Indigenous People on the Web
• Dec 22, 11: Miromaa Aboriginal Language and Technology Centre
• Dec 22, 11: Recovering and Celebrating Inuit Knowledge through Design: The Making of a Virtual Storytelling Space
• Dec 21, 11: The Power of Mobile Technology for the Exchange of Indigenous Knowledge
• Dec 18, 11: Digitizing Indigenous Culture: the Maasai of Laikipya
• Dec 15, 11: Human-Computer Interaction for Development: The Past, Present, and Future
• Dec 11, 11: Ara Irititja: Stories from a Long Time Ago
• Dec 7, 11: Dreaming of the Digital Songlines project
• Nov 24, 11: Transforming Communities: Technologies for Teaching and Learning Endangered Languages
• Nov 15, 11: IT System to Support Indigenous Knowledge Preservation
• Oct 26, 11: [Workshop] Learning from Marginalized Users: Reciprocity in HCI4D
• Sep 30, 11: Mukurtu Demo released & other good news...
• Sep 29, 11: Of local interest: The 2011 Saratoga Native American Festival
• Sep 29, 11: Aligning needs and means: On culture, ICT and knowledge in development cooperation
• Sep 16, 11: Geoweb: Indigenous Mapping of Intergenerational Knowledge
• Sep 15, 11: A New Visualization Approach to Re-Contextualize Indigenous Knowledge in Rural Africa
• Sep 14, 11: CFP: Digital Humanities 2012, Digital Diversity: Cultures, Languages and Methods
• Sep 13, 11: African Languages in a Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities for Indigenous Language Computing
• Sep 7, 11: The use of ICT for the preservation of Aboriginal culture: the Badimaya people of Western Australia
• Sep 6, 11: Preserving Endangered Languages using a Layered Web-based Archive
• Sep 4, 11: Indigenous education: Creating classrooms of tomorrow today
• Sep 4, 11: Technology, Education and Indigenous Peoples: the case of Maori
• Sep 4, 11: Home Internet for Remote Indigenous Communities
• Sep 2, 11: Culture and technology: a study on the 1997 theme
• Aug 27, 11: Indigenous technology and culture in the technology curriculum
• Aug 25, 11: Indigenous technology design and its challenges
• Aug 22, 11: CFP: 2nd Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
• Aug 18, 11: Māori Maps: Gateway to Marae
• Aug 10, 11: Trust and Technology: building an archival system for Indigenous oral memory
• Aug 10, 11: The Impact of Digital Technology on Indigenous Peoples
• Aug 1, 11: ITID Journal CFP: Research on ICT4D in Latin America
• Jul 31, 11: Organization Highlight: International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
• Jul 17, 11: A question about the effects of ICTs on minority languages and culture
• Jul 8, 11: The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
• Jul 8, 11: Appropriate ICT as a Tool to Increase Effectiveness in ICT4D: Theoretical considerations...
• Jul 4, 11: Digital Indigenous Democracy
• Jun 30, 11: Looking ahead to ICTD2012 in Atlanta, Georgia
• Jun 30, 11: ICTD2010: papers, posters, reports & more
• Jun 19, 11: Cultural Issues in the Adoption of Information and Communication Technologies by Indigenous Australians
• Jun 18, 11: Taking Ownership: Strengthening Indigenous Cultures and Languages Through the Use of ICTs
• Jun 15, 11: Beyond preservation: New directions for technological innovation through intangible cultural heritage
• Jun 13, 11: A Forum for Indigenous Culture Building and Preservation
• Jun 9, 11: CFP: Pervasive Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)
• May 30, 11: A model for community participation in African libraries to preserve Indigenous Knowledge
• May 27, 11: Discourse, 'Development' & the 'Digital Divide': ICT & the World Bank
• May 26, 11: ETEC 521: Indigeneity, Technology and Education
• May 23, 11: Building Indigenous social capital in an online world
• May 22, 11: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
• May 18, 11: ViTu: a system to help the Mexican people to preserve and celebrate their culture
• May 17, 11: Re-framing HCI through local and indigenous perspectives
• May 15, 11: Time Machine 1997: The Internet and Indigenous Groups
• May 10, 11: Puliima 2011 National Indigenous Languages and Technology Forum
• May 7, 11: Design, Development and Research 2011
• Apr 18, 11: Ten Canoes: too much to fit...
• Apr 16, 11: Managing Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions: Is Technology the Solution?
• Apr 13, 11: Indigenous Tweets
• Apr 13, 11: Indigenous Language Revitalization and Technology: From Traditional to Contemporary Domains
• Apr 10, 11: Repatriation, Digital Media, and Culture in the Virtual Museum
• Apr 9, 11: Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on Design and Development
• Apr 9, 11: The Genographic Legacy Fund
• Apr 8, 11: Advancing the New Machine: Human Rights and Technology
• Apr 7, 11: CFP: Theorising Development and Tech Change
• Apr 3, 11: A New York Jew in China
• Mar 17, 11: Culture as a vector for development?
• Mar 9, 11: A New Organization to Address Poverty Through Human-Centered Design
• Mar 8, 11: Mobile Technology, Gender and Development
• Mar 4, 11: Technology Snapshot: Indigenous Language & Cultural Preservation
• Mar 3, 11: Problematizing Indigenous Aesthetics
• Mar 1, 11: Communication for Social Change
• Mar 1, 11: HCI for the Developing World
• Mar 1, 11: Book Review: Encountering Development by Arturo Escobar (1994)
• Mar 1, 11: ICTs and the Backstretch
• Feb 28, 11: Language Preservation Technology: Online Torwali (Kohistani) Dictionary
• Feb 28, 11: Colonization and cultural reclamation as seen through the lens of Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn
• Feb 27, 11: Mukurtu gearing up for Spring 2011 release
• Feb 27, 11: Expanding the Knowledge Base: Managing Extended Knowledge at the NMAI
• Feb 25, 11: Indigenous Knowledge Technology Conf. 2011
• Feb 7, 11: Using ICTs for Indigenous Cultural Preservation: Challenges and Strategies
• Feb 27, 10: Memory Technologies: Indigenous Knowledge and ICT Design
• Oct 18, 09: A Value Sensitive Design Approach to Indigenous Knowledge Management Systems
• Aug 13, 09: Negotiating Community Resistance
• May 17, 09: ICT4D: Seeking the spaces inbetween