Traditional Culture, Education and ICT

NGO Narrative Report on the Global Forum
of Indigenous Peoples and the
Information Society

"One of the most important issues is how Indigenous Peoples can control the process of ICT introduction and use in their daily lives, and how they can use ICT in culturally appropriate ways, rather than be consumers dependent on the dictates of external funders. This raises the question of how traditional culture and ICT can be combined. Is ICT a useful tool to be integrated into traditional culture, education, and way of life to preserve Indigenous cultures (for instance archiving vanishing knowledge); or does it lead to erosion of tradition, values, identity, language, and ultimately assimilation into the mainstream? And how should Indigenous Peoples deal with mainstream content and produce their own content?"

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Centre de Documentation, de Recherche et d'Information des Peuples Autochtones
NGO NARRATIVE REPORT ON THE GLOBAL FORUM OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY