NEWS

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


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...


 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...


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.


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.


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