Indigenous people bridging the digital divide [World Changing]
Indigenous peoples are using both digital and narrative media to preserve and express their cultures and beliefs.
Often this involves adapting media and technology to what the people need, rather than pushing them into a pre-digested or “mainstream” model of what they ought to do with technology.
How Media and Digital Technology Empower Indigenous Survival
(via Putting People First) Worldchanging has “tracked projects that use new technologies to empower indigenous cultural survival — from digital applications using Inuktitut, the Inuit native language, to the Aboriginal Mapping Project, which harnesses…