How can technology be used to help preserve indigenous knowledge?
In the past, we often saw technology used in very destructive ways. I would say that television was one of those technologies, because it was culture coming from beyond a community and bringing in outside values that sometimes clashed with the values of the indigenous peoples. But I think with modern ICTs we do have opportunities to reverse that, to have indigenous culture and knowledge going out to the wider world. We also have opportunities for people to use the technology to look at their own culture without being influenced from the outside. In Mexico and Bolivia, for example, indigenous communities are producing documentaries and films from their perspective. This has led to a hugely vibrant video and filmmaking culture. It began with outside filmmakers teaching the indigenous people, but it is now at the stage where the indigenous people are training the next generation of indigenous filmmakers. In Bolivia, a lot of the programmes are even shown on television, and there have been
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