Impact of ICT on Indigenous Cultures: Rejuvenation or Colonization?

But can ICT truly preserve and protect distinct identities and culture? Does ICT by its very intervention introduce an element of westernisation amidst the indigenous culture that it purports to preserve and protect? What is the optimum balance between preserving traditional knowledge and embracing remix culture? The cultural debate surrounding deployment of ICT in the field of indigenous/ knowledge and culture simply refuses to die down.

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