User:Mark Oppenneer

I am the founder and director of The Ethnos Project (http://www.ethnosproject.org), a research portal and resource database that explores the intersection of Indigeneity and information and communication technologies. The project is interested, for example, in the cultural impacts and implications of open source databases for Indigenous Knowledge management, information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) initiatives, new and emerging technologies for intangible cultural heritage, social media used by Indigenous communities for social change, and mobile technologies used for language preservation.

My research interests include culture and development, digital humanities, Indigenous knowledge management, information and communications technologies for development (ICT4D), language and intangible cultural heritage cultural preservation, oral traditions, digital storytelling, emerging and appropriate technologies, open source software, human computer interaction and interface design.