From the inception of this blog, the group wanted to find a permeating theme that would hold our interests and subjects together. We decided to put people at the centre in our exploration of the relationship between ICT and development, and therefore agreed upon “ICT4 who?” as guiding question for …
My two previous blog posts regarding ICT4D and Indigenous Peoples have had data collection as a main topic. In the case of deforestation defence, the local network is collecting data to monitor illegal logging in the protected Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary and further reports these findings to policy makers and …
Indigenous Navigator collects data from indigenous people for indigenous people. In this episode, program coordinator and advisor David Berger, talks to us about monitoring the realisation of Indigenous rights through data. Indigenous Navigator is an online set of tools that collects data by indigenous people for indigenous people to monitor …
Throughout the world, Indigenous communities face displacement from their territories for the sake of multinational corporations to extract natural resources. Such corporations are often backed-up by state military protection, to ensure national export quota is being fulfilled. But is this right? Is this even legal? Universal rights Globalisation and the …
The move towards online education is rapidly accelerating, but can everyone keep step with the changes? The contrast in educational content and learning techniques for the indigenous Australians may slow down the process. Australia’s Closing the Gap National Agreement was tabled in the Australian Parliament in 2009 with the objective …
The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN), is an alliance of Indigenous communities mainly composed of the Kuy people. Their aim is to protect the Prey Lang Forest, which covers approximately 500,000 ha in four provinces of northern Cambodia. To help their work with monitoring and reporting the ongoing and widespread …
Welcome! My blog post series will follow the theme of Indigenous Peoples development and social change in relation to information and communication technologies (ICTs), as I perceive it has had an immense impact of this particular marginalised group. For example, during the spring of 2020, the importance of new media …
