Indigenous information system in Chiapas, Mexico: Integrating community radio, library and impact assessment for community development
Ricardo Gómez, Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Jeannie Berwick, Cala Zubair, Yvette Iribe, Freddy Mora · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 2017
We discuss an integrated information and evaluation system for indigenous development with the Tzeltal indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. We create an integrated system that brings together an indigenous community radio station, an indigenous library and documentation center, and a program to evaluate the impacts of development activities in the region, from an indigenous perspective. This project illustrates interdisciplinary work in information science that combines indigenous world views with modern information technologies, brought together for locally relevant community development.