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Towards an Indigenous Approach on Bridging the
Digital Divide

• A Roadmap to Tunis and beyond
• Indigenous Media Network Presentation

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Indigenous Participation in the Information
Society

• Indigenous Peoples must be able to shape their
  future without risking the loss of their cultures
  and identities
• Therefore
• Indigenous Peoples must be able to take part in
  the Information Society on their own terms
• Indigenous Peoples must be able to take part in
  the Information Society on the basis of their
  cultural backgrounds
• Indigenous research projects are an important
  tool to reach these goals

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Promoting the Cultural Diversity of the
Information Society

• Project goals
• 1. Identification of culturally appropriate ICT
  applications
• 2. Design of culturally appropriate
  capacity-building tools on ICT
• use
• 3. Development of Indigenous strategies to
  bridge the digital divide
• 4. Elaboration of culturally appropriate
  development strategies
• towards ICT utilization for poverty
  reduction

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Research Steps

• Developing models for culturally appropriate
  capacity-building and information workshops
• Carrying out information workshops in Indigenous
  regions
• Conducting initial surveys during these workshops
• In-depth surveys in selected Indigenous
  communities
• Elaborating Indigenous regional actions plans to
  bridge the digital divide

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Conference Indigenous Peoples and the Digital
Divide

• Parallel Event of Tunis Summit
• Brings together Indigenous Peoples, scientific
  community, development practitioners, donors and
  private sector
• Presentation of research results and Indigenous
  strategies to overcome the digital divide in
  their regions
• Platform for identification of an action plan
  beyond 2005 to assist Indigenous Peoples in
  bridging the digital divide on their own terms

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We, the Indigenous Peoples, walk to the future
in the footprints of our ancestors

• (Kari-Oca Declaration, Brazil, 30 May 1992)