The Ethnos Project: October 2012

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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

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Can't believe I haven't added @IsumaTV to the resources database before now! http://goo.gl/86xDm #Inuit #Indigenous (I blame old age...)

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

A great new way to explore the resources and posts on the Ethnos Project site - http://goo.gl/xRqTO (please let me know if you like it!)

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Fragile memories: Indigenous knowledge and development (Leonie Gordon, 2004) http://goo.gl/qTL93 - added to the resources database

INTED 2013 - 7th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (March 4-6, Valencia, Spain) http://goo.gl/vy3N7

Culture Matters 2012 conference (Nov 14-16): capturing the social and economic value of cultural heritage - http://goo.gl/F5QbU

Thursday, October 25, 2012

RT @CSORG: Community Radio Stations Focus on Communication for Social Change | Cultural Survival http://t.co/QNS9Brf5

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Twofer: The Foundation for #Indigenous ICT in #Ethiopia http://goo.gl/PUeH0, Ethiopic at the End of the 20th Century http://goo.gl/rFAIb

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Interesting read... Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the year 2020 - http://goo.gl/k7CJP #hci #culture

Saturday, October 20, 2012

eBario post updated w/ link to "Telecentre Replication Initiative in Borneo, Malaysia: The CoERI Experience" (2012) http://goo.gl/uUz92

Heard of RebelMouse? It's like Pinterest, Tumblr, and Twitter combined. Nice way to browse the Ethnos Project, too! http://tinyurl.com/ep-social

An Overview of ICT Innovation for Developmental Projects in Marginalised Rural Areas (Wertlen, 2007) - http://goo.gl/0fzkD #ict4d #mra

Community memory and ICT in a developing economy (Steyn, 2006) - http://goo.gl/VNYRZ #ict4d #informatics #memory

BingBee @ RaglanRoad – a Field Trial w/ Unattended Educational Kiosks (Wentworth, 2010) - http://goo.gl/c1QYs #ict4d #ict4e

iREACH: Lessons from a Community Owned ICT Network in Cambodia (2011) - http://goo.gl/JKRWP #ict4d #rural #telecentre

Sunday, October 14, 2012

A decade of ICT4D: two academic perspectives - http://goo.gl/2f4Z4 #ict4d #ictd

Gender and ICTs for Development: a global sourcebook (2005) http://goo.gl/rjKn0 #ict4d

Indigenous CommunitiesGender and ICTs for Development: a global sourcebook (2005) - http://goo.gl/rjKn0 #ict4d

Monday, October 8, 2012

APCICT’s ICTD Briefing Note Series 2011 - http://goo.gl/Smuat #ict4d (busy morning adding to the Resource Database! http://goo.gl/whlxs)

ICT World Today (Korean publication in English from 2008 to 2010) - http://goo.gl/LteVH #ict4d

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Empowering women through ICT (Spider ICT4D Series, 2012) http://goo.gl/Fo0gW

Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Ethnos Project is now cross-posting on Blogger