IPCDPN

Hi Fernando,
I'm bringing in Franz, Verlin and Martine into this discussion... KORI is promoting discussion by Indigenous Peoples in the English-speaking world on the role communication plays in addressing local priorities on such things as control over natural resources and climate change though this meeting space...
We need to populate the Communications Platform with case studies and best practices... (Rick Garrick and I are working on that)
To promote discussion, I am making a list of people that I have met and presented with at various conferences and gatherings... (I'm working on that)
To draw attention to the Communications Platform, KORI will host three IP video (with streaming video) events... The first will focus on Community Radio, the Second will be on Newspapers and the third will be on on-line environments...
Community Radio will be first because I have identified some presenters from Wawatay Radio,  Metis Nation Radio and two African Graduate students from Guelph who have extensive experience with community radio back home... I am going to ask Michael Gurstein to help us identify someone in either Australia or New Zealand who has access to IP video who can talk about their experiences with community radio down there... I know some of the kids in Fort Severn were listening to broadcasts from a Indigenous radio station in Australia who called themselves either dangerous mob or angry mob but I can't find the url...
I like your idea of engaging some NAN youth at the community level who might want to participate as a way to voice their ideas in audio to share with other community radio stations up north...
I like the idea of having a separate platform for each communication tool (community radio, newspapers and web-based environments) but linked to the main Communications Platform....

We need to attract people to the Communications Platform... We need people to encourage people to participate and not just watch... We need to encourage young people to get involved ... For me the KI crisis, has clearly demonstrated the power of communication tools ... We have much to share with one another and much to learn as well...
If anyone has any ideas, please feel free to share them... Check out what what First Nations peoples are doing in Central and South America ... They are engaged in building a platform similar to ours... To see it, click here...
Brian