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Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Tucson: University of Arizona Press (2025), xi, 280 pp.
"Napo Kichwa communities in the Upper Ecuadorian Amazon find themselves doubly marginalized by settler colonialism and well-intentioned language revitalization projects. In Rainforest Radio Georgia C. Ennis provides a comprehensive ethnographic exploration of Amazonian Kichwa community media, offeri
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Rethinking Open Source in the Age of Foundational AI Models
Deep Insights
ICTworks, July 29 (2025)
"As the global artificial intelligence community wrestles with the tension between scale and accessibility, recent work by researchers at Lelapa AI offers a compelling example of what inclusive, efficient AI can look like. Around the world, the push to shrink massive language models into deployable,
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Indigenizing Emerging Technologies
Cultural Survival Quarterly, volume 48, issue 1 (2024), pp. 8-25
"Addressing a rarely-examined intersection, the magazine features eight articles highlighting the use of technology in Indigenous communities. These include AI’s role in exacerbating violence and inequality, the use of AI in tracking salmon migration, Indigenous representation in video games, and
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Digital Media and the Preservation of Indigenous Languages in Africa
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2024), 303 pp.
"This edited collection provides a methodology for African researchers, practitioners, and marginalized communities to integrate digital technologies into their lives to foster innovation, advance the documentation and preservation of underrepresented languages, and promote African-centered epistemo
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Hello Indigenous: A Blueprint on the Preservation of Endangered Indigenous Languages Through Digital Inclusion;Hello indígenas: Um modelo de projeto de inclusão digital para preservação de línguas indígenas ameaçadas
Jaguariúna: Motorola Mobility (2023), 33 pp.
"This document is a detailed report of best practices for the digital inclusion of speakers of endangered Indigenous languages. The proclamation of the period between 2022 and 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032), as per Resolution A/RES/74/135 from United Nation
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Online Hate Speech Expressions in Local Languages in Indonesia
Wendratama, Engelbertus: PR2Media (2023), vi; 49 pp.
Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages
Deep Insights
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO; Global Voices (2023), 193 pp.
"This toolkit has been co-designed in close partnership with both established and emerging networks of Indigenous digital practitioners, language advocates, and collaborators, within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032. The toolkit promotes the foundation of l
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Oralidades y escrituras kichwas
Quito: Abya-Yala; Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2022), 210 pp.
State of the Art of Indigenous Languages in Research: A Collection of Selected Research Papers
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 395 pp.
"In the context of the International Year and International Decade of Indigenous Languages, a Global Call for Research Papers was commissioned with the aim to show a diversity of scholarship in the field of Indigenous languages and related issues. The international peer-review team carried out a com
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Willaykunapa tiksichanishka Kichwa shimikuna: Palabras básicas de comunicación en Kichwa
Quito: Coordinadora de Radios Populares y Educativas del Ecuador (CORAPE); UNESCO (2022), 16 pp.
"CORAPE [...] presenta y pone a disposición de hablantes, usuarios y personas interesadas una compilación de términos de uso común en el idioma Kichwa Unificado de Ecuador, en temas conectados con la dinámica social de la vida diaria. Nuestro objetivo es promover la interculturalidad y el ejerc
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The International Year of Indigenous Languages: Mobilizing the International Community to Preserve, Revitalize and Promote Indigenous Languages
Paris: UNESCO (2021), 99 pp.
"The 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL2019) was a unique opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of indigenous languages in our societies and to mobilize partners around the world to take urgent measures to safeguard, support and promote indigenous languages. This fla
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Los Pinos Declaration [Chapoltepek] - Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages: Outcome Document of the High-Level Event 'Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages' on the Occasion of the Closing of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, 27-28 February 2020 Mexico City, Mexico
México, DF: UNESCO; Gobierno de México (2020), 28 pp.
"The following key principles, based on human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the rights and values of indigenous peoples as indicated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), will inspire the future Global Action Plan for the International Decade of
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Indigenous Languages: Zero to Digital. A Guide to Bring Your Language Online
Translation Commons (2019), 24 pp.
"This document describes how to enable mobile and desktop software to support a written language. The recommended implementation allows native speakers to communicate online, share knowledge and documents, and to use software and devices that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. The intended aud
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A rights-based framework for minority and indigenous languages in Africa: From endangerment to revitalization
Minority Rights Group International (2019), 23 pp.
"It is estimated that between 6,000 and 7,000 languages are currently spoken worldwide, of which approximately half, if not more, will disappear by the end of this century [...] Language plays a central role not only for the preservation of identity and culture, but also in matters of non-discrimina
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Covering Rakhine: Journalism, Conflict and Identity
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 229-238
"In this chapter I explore the challenge of gaining access, and remaining independent, in an ethnic state where you are expected to be on one side of the conflict or on the other. For decades the military junta restricted access to information and wielded a powerful propaganda strategy. This has had
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The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 612 pp.
"This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today. It presents a wide-ranging, coherent picture of the main topics, with key contributions from international specialists in sociolinguistics, policy studies, sociology, anthropology and law. Individual ch
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Apropiarse de las redes para fortalecer la palabra: Una introducción al activismo digital de lenguas indígenas en América Latina
Leiden: Global Voices (2016), 35 pp.
"Del análisis de los quince estudios de caso se desprende un complejo retrato del trabajo que encabezan actores indígenas y no indígenas para que los idiomas nativos del continente ganen espacios y se visibilicen en la esfera digital. El estudio muestra que las formas de hacer activismo digital d
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Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society: Emerging Uses of ICTs
Paris: UNESCO (2016), 23 pp.
"During the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Indigenous Peoples called for their full and effective participation in the Information Age on their own terms. While implementation of the WSIS Plan of Action has been limited, there are examples of Indigenous Peoples creatively engaging wi
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"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) activists: the right to health, education and culture; the socioec
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