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Sustaining life on EarthBiological diversity – or biodiversity – is the term given to the variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns it forms. The biodiversity we see today is the fruit of billions of years of evolution, shaped by natural processes and, increasingly, by the influence of humans. It forms the ...
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Practical Action Consulting - 2 Nine experiences of democratising technology2 Nine experiences of democratising technology In the diverse experiences described below, different individuals and organisations have adopted a variety of roles to bring about what can broadly be termed the 'democratisation of technology'. Each account begins with a brief summary of these ...
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Community Radio Handbook - UNESCOCommunity radio is a social process or event in which members of the community associate together to design programmes and produce and air them, thus taking on the primary role of actors in their own destiny, whether this be for something as common as mending fences in the neighbourhood, or a ...
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CIEER - Centre For International Ethnomedicinal Education and ResearchCIEER is an 501 c(3) nonprofit educational and research organization developed in 1998 to promote the conservation of bio-cultural traditional knowledge and plant biodiversity. We serve as a focal point for the exchange of ethnomedicinal knowledge and to establish an international network of ...
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Against Interpretation 2.0 « Open IntelligenceNotes on Human Machine Symbiosis for Data Interpretation A lecture by Dave Snowden , Founder and Chief Scientist, Cognitive-Edge to the International Society for Knowledge Organisation ( ISKO UK ), University College London, April 23, 2009 “What the overemphasis on the idea of content ...
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Against Interpretation 2.0 « Open IntelligenceBy Jan Wyllie, Open Intelligence Notes on Human Machine Symbiosis for Data Interpretation A lecture by Dave Snowden, Founder and Chief Scientist, Cognitive-Edge to the International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO UK), University College London, April 23, 2009 “What the overemphasis ...
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'Modern methods' pit reindeer herders against animal activists'Modern methods' pit reindeer herders against animal activists Far from the idyllic image of lone herders skiing after their reindeer, indigenous Samis in Sweden's far north today use snowmobiles and other vehicles, giving rise to an animal welfare campaign as far away as Britain. "Everything ...
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International Dunhuang ProjectIDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and ...
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Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village?Over the last ten years, indigenous and minority people have been using a variety of media, including film and video, as new vehicles for internal and external communication, for self-determination, and for resistance to outside cultural domination.' The new media forms they are creating are ...
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Cultural anthropology - WikipediaCultural anthropology is one of four fields of anthropology (the holistic study of humanity) as it developed in the United States. It is the branch of anthropology that has developed and promoted "culture" as a meaningful scientific concept, studied cultural variation among humans, and examined ...
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