Proposals Indigenous Communities from February, 2013
Nigeria: Global Amalgamation Project (GAP)
GAP is a Project designed to link remote and hard to reach communities in Afikpo South LGA of Ebonyi State of Nigeria to global village especially issues affecting disables, women, Children and Youths.. Open Community Meeting and Training on social networking (face book, e-mail, phone etc) , hosting of website, and establishment of internet connectivity center for networking, are the key activities.
Cameroon: Kwifon Online
Kwifon online is a project that will enable the secret masquerade ‘kwifon’ of 3 villages (Bafut, Mankon and Nkwen) of the Ngemba tribe in Cameroon speak on internet social media for the first time. This venture is expected to consolidate the bond between the traditional rulers and their people residing in cities around the world, increase use of Ngemba languages online and facilitate resource mobilization for village development.
Bangladesh: Computer Lab for Indigenous/Vulnerable Youth
Establish a computer lab for providing training to indigenous/vulnerable youth about online outsourcing system, using twitter, blog, internet to connect with others how to create blog group, how to exchange their ideas, cultures and customs with the wider communities. Organize series of workshops with experienced local bloggers to share their ideas with new generation of indigenous communities to discuss about present crisis and how to solve it
Philippines: Pegsalabuk Subanen Tribal Interaction
Our organization Pegsalabuk Subanen Inc. primary aim is to unite all Subanen communities within the four (4) provinces Mis. Occ., Zamboanga Del Norte, Zamboanga Del Sur, and Zamboanga Sibugay. It is very imperative for us to set up communication center possibly in all tribal barangay in order to update our co-tribal members on progress and development and all on going projects that we will introduce and all projects from the gov't for the tribe.
Nepal: Transcending Kulung's Voice as Human Pride
10 youths from Kulung community will be trained to create blog and upload their stories online. Kulung community is deprived of enjoying their rights to self-identity and by the virtue of that excluded in development process and decision making process. This will explore Kulung language, culture, history, ancestral land and territories, myths and their life style and connection to global community that make Kulung peoples a pride as human being
USA: A Circle of Stories
A CIRCLE OF STORIES will share the personal,family and traditional stories of Indigenous people through short videos made with new media,smartphones,tablets and digital video.Facilitating inter-cultural dialogue and increasing community interactions,these online stories will deepen public understanding of Native Americans as multi-dimensional individuals.
Kenya: Baraka Center: Women's Voices Rising
WCI has opened the first (of many) Women’s Centers in Nairobi Kenya. Baraka Center provides a safe place where women living in slums can learn to read and write, develop businesses, learn and practice leadership skills, and productively address the violence directed against them. In three months, 374 women registered at the Center. It’s an effective, innovative integration of programs that meet the diverse and related needs of poor women.
USA: ROUND DANCE CINEMA
Round Dance Cinema will fuse the dynamic stories of Indigenous people with the sharing capabilities of online media.This project will fuse short videos created by Native Americans using smartphones,digital cameras and internet into an online, intertribal film festival. Creating these short films will increase communication between tribal people, while augmenting public awareness about First Nations people as multi-dimensional individuals.
USA: The Way We Live Now
Mainstream media relegates North American Native people to the past, as stoic images in old photographs or stereotypes in “Western” films. As a Creek/Cherokee woman,I meet people who are surprised that Native Americans still exist. “The Way We Live Now” will help Indigenous people to create short videos and place them online in a curated online venue that displays Natives interacting with daily life in modern ways and dispels stereotypes.
Mexico: Rescuing Cultures, their Knowledge, Traditions and Customs
Rescuing Cultures is a project focused on teaching and design strategies for indigenous communities Altos Region of Chiapas Tsotsil-Tseltal so that these indigenous groups to share via social networks and blogs their knowledge and traditional knowledge, customs, traditions, worldviews and how to live with natural resources. This project aims to show everyone the way of life of indigenous cultures, but is told by the main actors.
