Planeta.com, the global journal of practical ecotourism, is facilitating an online unconference focusing on Indigenous Peoples and tourism. Themes include biodiversity conservation, cultural heritage, food and literacy (traditional reading and writing and digital literacy — the emerging read write culture).
They are calling for recommendations of educational and engaging videos, podcasts, websites and online resources. Conversation takes place via skype, facebook, flickr, twitter, youtube and wiki.
How to Participate:
* Seek out and patronize indigenous businesses where you live.
* Learn new words in an indigenous language.
* Use Web 2.0 – Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia – to learn about indigenous culture.
* Make a poster!
* Organize a local walk focusing on indigenous culture
Details:
planeta.wikispaces.com/indigenousweek
Join the event on Facebook.
Many thanks for sharing the news about this unconference. It follows in the footsteps of Responsible Tourism Week held earlier this year and I am hopeful that the notion of a many-to-many exchange of ideas will flourish as non-indigenous peoples learn about indigenous culture and indigenous peoples learn how to use Web 2.0 to share their story to a wider public.
I’d like to extend a particular challenge to friends in Africa to help explain or show us indigenous culture in your corner of the world. More blogs, podasts and videos please! On my recent visit I was really taken by guided walks in Cape Town that helped me frame the place by its ancient history. Kudos to Coffeebean Routes for the walk with Jethro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfxAoSazYNk