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Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society: Emerging uses of ICTs

UNESCO: Indigenous Peoples, 2016

During the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Indigenous Peoples called for their full and effective participation in the Information Age on their own terms. While implementation of the WSIS Plan of Action has been limited, there are examples of Indigenous Peoples creatively engaging with information and communications technologies (ICTs) independently, or in partnership with NGOs, private sector, governments, intergovernmental organizations, and other Indigenous Peoples. A broad range of innovative software, hardware, and existing technologies are being employed to, among other things: defend Indigenous Peoples’ human rights; and preserve, manage, and promote their unique cultural heritage. This report summarizes Indigenous Peoples’ engagement with the Information Society and provides an overview of their participation during the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Particular attention is given to the relevance to “knowledge societies” and Action Line C8 of the WSIS Plan of Action on “Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content.” Drawing on Indigenous Peoples’ declarations, statements, and interviews with key experts and activists, as well as intergovernmental and academic reports, this review also showcases innovations, examples of good practice and emerging trends, with recommendations to guide strategies, projects, and policy-making, in the post-WSIS environment.

Indigenous people in cyberspace

Leonardo, 1996

Although computing and telecommunications technologies are becoming increasingly intergral to the work practices and everyday lives of indigenous people, these activities remain relatively unpublicized and untheorized. The author discusses a variety of computing and electronic networking projects undertaken by Australian Aboriginal and Native American people that address issues of central importance to all indigenous people-i.e. education, cultural development and self-determination. The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the diversity of projects now underway and to discuss how these may be used as models for others indigenous communities wishing to undertake similar projects.

Latin America| Indians on the Network: Notes about Brazilian Indigenous Cyberactivism

International Journal of Communication, 2013

Information and communication technologies form the bases for contexts that are increasingly global, and through which the expression of differences is found in the informational environment and the visibility of its own cultural dynamism. That is, the interactions between digital informative interfaces and architectures and the exchanges between distinct cultural universes, which transcend geographical boundaries, stimulate the emergence of new and recognized ethnic identities.

Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities

This document sets out key issues identified in the final plenary session at the AIATSIS research symposium on Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities (ITIC). More than 70 papers were presented at ITIC on the use of information technologies by Indigenous peoples. Illustrating the strength and vibrancy of the sector, presentations were delivered on programs, projects and research being implemented and undertaken by a range of community organisations,institutions and researchers across Australia. ITIC demonstrated the growing presence of an impressive and exciting IT sector in which digital media is being used in diverse and creative ways by Indigenous Australians to support, for example, innovation, employment, training and governance, as well as the production, maintenance and transmission of culture. The sector builds on more than 30 years of cultural and social capital in IT and Indigenous communities. The use of digital media was showcased in a range of programs and initiatives spanning education, language, health and wellbeing, local and national digital archiving repositories, and the burgeoning creative industries and broadcasting sectors. The symposium highlighted the ability of IT to generate unique opportunities for income generation and local enterprise development. In particular, ITIC demonstrated the key capacity of IT to engage young people, particularly in creative media, thus providing new platforms for formal and informal training to support personal and career development. Overall, the symposium revealed not only the extent and variety of services already provided through IT by Indigenous people for the communities (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous) in which they live, but also the clear benefits arising from increasing engagement with digital media and the digital economy, and the potential for future growth. IT harnesses many crucial aspects associated with the economic future of Indigenous communities across the country.

Digital Identity: The Construction of Virtual Selfhood in the Indigenous Peoples' Movement

This paper examines the struggles for rights and expressions of identity in the global indigenous movement through the use of new media. The Internet has made it more possible to express abstract identity attachments at both ends of a spectrum: as a source of global identification between peoples who see themselves as suffering from the same leveling powers of state governments, international agencies, and private organizations; and as a local source of cultural reawakening and boundary reinforcement, a community based answer to the effects of cultural disembedding and dissolution.