NEWS

Here is IT&T news with an indigenous focus. We welcome your news so please forward your stories to news@teputahi.ac.nz.

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Maori Information Technology and Telecommunications Strategy.

From: New Zealand

Date: 16 July 2001

Contributor: Te Putahi Whakawhiti Parongo

Maori Information Technology and Telecommunications Council (MITTC) has been calling on the Government to support the development of a Maori IT&T policy...

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 Technology hui decides .aa is for Aotearoa

Website: www.stuff.co.nz

Date: 16 July 2001

Contributor: TOM PULLAR-STRECKER

Creating a new ".aa" Internet country code for "Aotearoa" which would sit alongside New Zealand's existing ".nz" Internet address...

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Report to the International Telecommunications Union- Development sector (ITU-D)

From: New Zealand

Date: 16 July 2001

Contributor: Te Putahi Whakawhiti Parongo

Question 14/1: The role of telecommunications in social and cultural development, including the protection and promotion of indigenous culture and identity.

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ASHÁNINKA NATIVE COMMUNITY MUTUAL SUPPORT AGREEMENT

From: Peru

Date: 16 July 2001

Contributor: INICTEL

A Mutual Support Agreement was signed between INICTEL and the Asháninka Native Community on 30 March 2001.

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Culture and Identity in the Cyberspace. Indigenous peoples, multiculturalism and the building of identities.

From: New Zealand

Date: 16 July 2001

COORDINATORS:

ROBYN KAMIRA (Aotearoa-Nueva Zelandia)

SILVIA SENEN GONZALEZ (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Website: www.globalcn2001.org

Global CN 2001 - Second Global Congress of Citizens Networks, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 5-7, 2001