Information Technology and Indigenous People Book

Sect. I	Indigenous people and information technology : issues and perspectives
Ch. I	Portals and potlach	1
Ch. II	Indigenous peoples and the cultural construction of information and communication technology (ICT) in Latin America	14
Ch. III	Indigenous knowledges and worldview : representations and the Internet	27
Ch. IV	Kaitiakitanga and health informatics : introducing useful indigenous concepts of governance in the health sector	30
Case Study I	ICTs for intercultural dialogue (ICT4ID)	52
Case Study II	ICT and the Orang Asli in Malaysia	55
Case Study III	My life with computers on a remote island	58
Case Study IV	How computers came into my life	61
Sect. II	Technology in education
Ch. V	Developing culturally inclusive educational multimedia in the South Pacific	65
Ch. VI	Learning to Internet bank	80
Ch. VII	Can information communication technological tools be used to suit aboriginal learning pedagogies?	93
Ch. VIII	Instructional design and technology implications for indigenous knowledge : Africa's introspective	105
Case Study V	Computer technology and native literacy in the Amazon Rain Forrest	117
Case Study VI	Toi Whakoranga : Maori and learning technology	120
Case Study VII	Multimedia curriculum development based on the oral tradition	123
Case Study VIII	The indigenous pre-IT program	126
Case Study IX	Problem-based online learning and indigenous tertiary education : reflections on implementation	132
Case Study X	Student technology projects in a remote first nations village	137
Case Study XI	Draw-talk-write : experiences and learning with indigenous Australians that are driving the evolution of word recognition technology	141
Sect. III	Cultural preservation and revitalisation
Ch. IX	Ara Irititja : towards culturally appropriate IT best practice in remote indigenous Australia	146
Ch. X	Digital songlines : digitising the arts, culture and heritage landscape of aborignal Australia	159
Case Study XII	The use of information and communication technology for the preservation of aboriginal culture : the Badimaya people of Western Australia	170
Ch. XI	Indigenous language usage in a bilingual interface : transaction log analysis of the Niupepa Web site	175
Case Study XIII	Language, identity, and community control : the Tagish first voices project	189
Case Study XIV	Towards an indigenous language knowledge base : tools and techniques from the Arwarbukarl community	192
Case Study XV	Ndjebbana talking books : a technological transformation to fit Kunibidji social practice	197
Case Study XVI	A talking dictionary of Paakantyi	200
Case Study XVII	Building the Dena'ina language Alaska archive	205
Sect. IV	Applications transforming communities
Ch. XII	Ethnocomputing with native American design	210
Ch. XIII	Cut from the same cloth : the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, geographic information systems, and cultural assimilation	220
Ch. XIV	Representations of tribal boundaries of Australian indigenous peoples and the implications for geographic information systems	232
Ch. XV	E-communiy-based tourism for Asia's indigenous people	245
Case Study XVIII	Computerised tests of brain function for use with indigenous people	257
Case Study XIX	Alliance project : digital kinship database and genealogy	260
Case Study XX	Agreements treaties and negotiated settlements database	266
Sect. V	Linking communities and improving access
Ch. XVI	The diffusion of new technologies : community online access centres in indigenous communities in Australia	272
Ch. XVII	Wireless applications in Africa	286
Case Study XXI	UHF-based community voice service in Ngannyatjarra lands of Australia	295
Case Study XXII	Cape York digital network	298
Case Study XXIII	Redfern kids connect	302
Case Study XXIV	Community computing and literacy in Pascua Yaqui Pueblo	305
Case Study XXV	Reunification of the Wendat/Wyandotte nation at a time of globalization	310
	Epilogue : future directions	314