The project en mi idioma (in my language) wins award from the world summit information society 2013

16/05/2016 | Autor: Equipo de Comunicaciones info@colnodo.apc.org

The project En Mi Idioma was awarded in the category C8: Diversity and Cultural Identity, Linguistic Diversity and Local Content. The award was presented in the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2013 In Geneve, in May this year. This award was presented to the Colombian Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies and to Colnodo, which together are implementing the project in Colombia.

The General Secretary of the International Telecommunication Unit ITU, Dr. Hamadoun Touré, announced the name of the 18 winning projects of the WSIS 2013.

These Prizes recognize excellence in the implementation of projects and initiatives which further the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society.

The indigenous communities which are participating in the En Mi Idioma project are:

• Embera Chami, speakers of the Ebera Bedea language and represented by the Indigenous Organization of Antioquia - OIA.
• Kichwa, speakers of the Runa Shimi language and represented by the Cabildo Mayor Indigena (Goberning Body) Kichwa of Bogota – Camainkibo.
• Misak, speakers of the Nam Trik language and represented by the Cabildo Indígena of Guambia in Cauca.
• Motilón Bari, speakers of the Bariara language, represented by the Pueblo Bari of Colombia – Asopbari in Norte de Santander.
• Nasa who speak the Nasa Yuwe language, represented by the Cabildos Indígenas Association of the North of Cauca - ACIN.
• Wayuu who speak the Wayuunaiki language, represented by the Wayuu Authorities Association of Guajira - Achijirawaa.
• And the Afrocolombian Palenquera community speakers of the Bantú language and represented by the Social Club Criollos Kusuto, in San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar.

En mi idioma has already 118 lessons online posted by the communities themselves - 110 in indigenous languages and 8 in the Bantú language.

The initiative was initailly promoted in 2006 by Unesco which supported the development of 4 pilot projects with new ICTs in Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru.

Colnodo recognizes that this prize is a especial recognition to the tremendous effort made by the indigenous and Afrocolombian involved in using ICTs to plan their lessons and deliver them online in educational and ICT centers to their communities, in order to preserve their indigenous languages and to assure the coming generations will learn them.

Colnodo expects to reach through this project other indigenous and Afrocolombian in order to prevent the extinction of their languages, encourage the production of local content and to continue promoting the use of ICTs in their daily lives.

To get more information on En Mi Idioma visit www.enmiidioma.org

See the community Misak in Guambía, Cauca and their experience with the project En Mi Idioma (spanish):

Mention the project En Mi Idioma in the Programa Vive Digital TV

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Related press releases:

• The International Union of Telecommunications presented an award to the Ministry of Telecommunications for their projects to preserve indigenous languages http://www.mintic.gov.co/index.php/mn-news/2156-la-union-internacional-de-telecomunicaciones-premio-a-mintic-por-proyectos-de-conservacion-de-lengua-indigena

• Awards given in the WSIS 2013. Recognition to outstanding applications of ICT strategies. http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2013/20-es.aspx#.UZZo2CNFBzy

• Interview in Radio Capital to Julian Casasbuenas, Colnodo´s Director, on the award presented by the WSIS to the project En Mi Idioma http://colnodo.apc.org/apc-aa-files/8809d88ec80d42fc97f896d1bec6b349/Entrevista_En_Mi_Idioma_Radio_Capital.MP3

• Article published on the 16th of May 16 in the newspaper La República http://www.larepublica.co/responsabilidad-social/mintic-recibi%C3%B3-premio-mundial-por-proyecto-que-conserva-lengua-ind%C3%ADgena_38643

• APC and Telecentre.org received award from WSIS 2013 http://www.colnodo.apc.org/destacamos.shtml?apc=l-xx-1-&x=760

• Colnodo: Proyecto En Mi Idioma gana premio de la Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Información 2013 https://www.apc.org/es/blog/colnodo-proyecto-en-mi-idioma-gana-premio-de-la-cu

• Programa En Mi Idioma recibió premio internacional http://www.diariodelnorte.net/noticias/generales/15659-programa-en-mi-idioma-recibi%C3%B3-premio-internacional.html

• La UIT premia un projecte de preservació de la riquesa lingüística http://xarxanet.org/internacional/noticies/la-uit-premia-un-projecte-de-preservacio-de-la-riquesa-lingueistica

• “En mi idioma” ha recibido un premio de las Naciones Unidas http://blog.pangea.org/es/2013/05/en-mi-idioma-itu/ "En mi idioma" ha rebut un premi en els Premios de la Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Información - Wsis http://www.upc.edu/ccd/noticies/en-mi-idioma-ha-rebut-un-premi-en-els-premios-de-la-cumbre-mundial-de-la-sociedad-de-la-informacion-wsis