Title: Living Cultural Storybases: Using Technology to Preserve Cultural Diversity
Author: Worldchanging Team
Source: Worldchanging.com
Publisher: Worldchanging
Date published: 09/07/2009
Date accessed: 11/07/2009
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
Indigenous peoples are 4 percent of the world’s population, but half of humanity’s cultures. Yet they are the poorest and most disenfranchised. One language dies every 10 days; within 50 years over half the world’s languages will be gone. Cultural diversity is disappearing much faster than plant or animal diversity. We face a cataclysmic loss of millennia of wisdom and knowledge whilst threatened by megacity monocultures, economies of scale, environmental destruction and greed...
Storytelling transmits the essence of any culture, encapsulating deeper beliefs, values and identity, inspiring ways of behaving and believing. ‘Living Cultural Storybases’ helps minority communities build evolving digital repositories in their own language of their cultural narratives and knowledge, i.e. ‘Storybases’

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Living Cultural Storybases