Digital literacy program to train indigenous communities in Queensland, Australia
Next September 2017, the State Library of Queensland and Telstra telecommunications company will launch a digital literacy training program for Australian indigenous communities. The main objective of this program is to provide people from remote areas of Queensland state with…
Mayan Hack introduces indigenous population from Quintana Roo to digital technologies
The first “Mayan Hack” event to take place 13-14 July 2017, will provide indigenous communities from Quintana Roo, Mexico, with an introduction to digital skills and access to translated contents to enable them to use technology resources. This initiative is…
Planeta.com will celebrate Indigenous People’s Week 2017 through tourism and digital literacy unconference
Planeta.com announced its seventh annual celebration of the Indigenous People’s Week to take place August 7-13. This celebration is a social web storytelling event that seeks to generate awareness about indigenous tourism opportunities worldwide and create valuable contents for digital…
Google provides training for 1 million Africans through Digital Skills program
Google announced that its Digital Skills program reached its yearly goal of training 1 million Africans. Through this initiative, the organization intends to support local online businesses to grow through the usage of technology tools to amplify their productivity and…
City of Seattle funds 10 tech literacy programs
Earlier in 2016, the Seattle IT Community Technology program released the Digital Equity Action Plan to “ensure all residents and neighborhoods have the information technology capacity needed for civic and cultural participation, employment, lifelong learning, and access to essential services.”…
Digital Inclusion program targets Panamanian indigenous population
Odebrecht, the Technologic University of Panama, Dell Panama and different local leaders from the region trained 50 indigenous adults in mobile digital skills as part of the Project for the Third Electric Transmission Line. The group of participants was formed…
Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias to provide mobile services for Mexican indigenous communities
Mexican Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias A.C. (TIC) received a license to provide mobile services for up to 1,200 communities in Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz, Guerrero and Puebla states. The main objective of this initiative is to bridge the current digital divide by…
APEC Women and the Economy 2016 Forum calls for digital literacy to break economic integration barriers of women in the global market
On 30 June, The APEC Women and the Economy 2016 Forum gathered a group of leaders from the Asia-Pacific region to discuss about “Breaking Barriers to the Economic Integration of Women in the Global Market.” The event was organized to…
Universidad de Querétaro develops campaign for indigenous digital inclusion
The Autonomous University of Querétaro in Mexico (UAQ in Spanish) started a digital inclusion campaign called “Jamädi”, which means “thank you” in the otomí indigenous dialect. The main objective of the project is to reduce the digital divide in the…
Advance Queensland funds research projects to provide indigenous people in Australia with Digital skills
Advance Queensland is a group of programs that was designed to promote knowledge-based jobs in Australia. Currently, the initiative has started to support research for introducing digital skills into the educational experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait indigenous students. Around…