Tag Archives: Impact of Technology on Indigenous Peoples

Ojo de Agua Comunicación
This community-based media organization that endeavors to foster Indigenous communication projects in Mexico demonstrate the strategic integration of media into their cultural fabric. Its website (although it´s presented just in Spanish) allows us to get an overview of its development during 17 years of work, in where this socially committed organization have promoted Indigenous media elaborated by their own protagonist.

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Digital native media inform and empower rural and indigenous communities in Latin America

Another article that emphasizes the power of cultural communications through digital media and social networks in Latin America, presents a variety of digital sites that establish connections with rural and indigenous communities.
Through these sites, Indigenous communities can give voice to their own community problems, with the idea of creating links between cultural activism, journalists and citizens.
In this website, there are sites for journalistic work, social networks that encourage public debate and the sharing of knowledge through workshops in communities.

https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-17322-digital-native-media-inform-and-empower-rural-and-indigenous-communities-latin-americas

Sesenta y Ocho Voces (Sixty-eight Voices)

These multimedia collection presents various animated Indigenous stories that have been narrated in their origin native language. Based on the premise “Nobody can love what they don’t know”, these productions have the purpose of fostering respect, pride and promote a sense appreciation and value to indigenous languages in Mexico between speaker and non-speakers. In a sense, the digital story-telling developed in this project entails an expression of a cultural self-reflection that provokes a reconstruction of our identity as a Mexican mestizo society that is embedded to Indigeneity roots.

https://68voces.mx/

 

Imperfect media and the poetics of indigenous video in Latino America

Francisco Salazar and Amalia Córdova elaborate a reflection about the Poetics of Indigenous media, meaning by Poetics active making or the process of making, locating self- representation at the center of Indigenous Media. They examine self-representation in Indigenous media as a process and product, which they think it is mainly characterized as an Imperfect media. This notion of imperfect media responds in a constructive way for “the Eurocentric foundations implicit in many of the Latin America cultural and creative industries” (Salazar, J. F., & Córdova, 2008) and calls for the decolonization of Indigenous media practice. Meanwhile, the complex processes of self- representation through Indigenous video-making and media is becoming an independent field of cultural production made by and for Indigenous people, there is a constant need to empower these communities and filmmakers to manage and self-determine the guidepost of their own purposes.

Reference
Salazar, J. F., & Córdova, A. (2008). chapter 1 imperfect media and the poetics of indigenous video in Latin America. Global indigenous media: Cultures, poetics, and politics, 39.

 

Digital Technology Innovation in Education in Remote First Nation

A study that explores how digital technology is supporting the decolonization of education and local languages in remote First Nations communities in Northwest Ontario. This article is relevant to understand the implications of online learning in northern Indigenous communities and how these remote locations create challenges and educational opportunities for language revitalization and decolonization. Points out that First Nation leaders and elders are aware of how digital technology can be a “double-edged sword” as they try to balance the changes introduced by these technologies.
How are the people living in five remote KO First Nations using digital technologies for learning new skills? And, what have been their experiences with these opportunities, and what are their perspectives on digital technology in the community? These questions explore digital technologies as new means of self-representation in regards to the reality of such communities.

https://ineducation.ca/ineducation/article/view/266/847

Post 8: Latin America: The Internet and Indigenous Texts

An interesting article that addresses the challenges and potentials that indigenous people in Latin America face with the Internet and other communication technologies. Also, it examines how indigenous people are impacted by these technologies and how it functions differently from indigenous communities in countries in the north.

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/latin-america-internet-and-indigenous-texts

Post #2- Designing learning environments for cultural inclusivity: A case study of indigenous online learning at tertiary level

Web-based instruction design is based on the particular epistemologies, learning theories and goal expectations of the designers themselves. In this paper, the authors trace the design processes involved for indigenous Australian learners preparing to enter university and the importance of cultural localization, which incorporates local values, styles of learning and cognitive preferences of the target population.

McLoughlin, C., & Oliver, R. (2000). Designing learning environments for cultural inclusivity: A case study of indigenous online learning at tertiary level. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 16(1).

Retrieved from https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/view/1822/887

POST #3 – Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is arguably the most diverse indigenous population in the world, with a reported 840 indigenous living languages.   The country was first colonised in 1884 by Germany and this was followed by Australia until it gained independence in 1975.  Australia continues to have significant interests in PNG, with extensive extractive industry investments, and provides considerable donor funds to the country which heavily influences policy, including in education.  In my PNG search I found this team of entrepreneurs  looking for ways to use technology to address economic and social issues in the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4hYDZkYl2g