Presentation at the 8th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 18th-19th of October 2007. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Full conference report available at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2995
Presentation at the 7th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 5th-6th of October 2006. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Full conference report is available in Munin at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2996
The Arctic is a vast, sparsely populated area. The demographic situation points to online distance education as a solution to support lifelong learning and to build competence in the region. An overall aim of all university education is what Hans Georg Gadamer calls Bildung, what we in Norwegian call dannelse and what Richard Rorty has called edification. A first problem to be addressed here is that in online distance learning some teachers find that is harder to support the development of the student’s voice. Being able to express oneself and to position oneself in a scientific community is vital for a well-educated graduate. Another problem in online education has been the extensive use of writing as a means in the student’s learning process. Writing is vital to academic education, but in online courses there is in general a danger of overuse. At the University of Tromsø we have tested the web conference tool Elluminate Live. This is a real-time application, integrated in the University’s learning management system (LMS), Fronter. The application enables synchronous oral dialogue, simultaneous sharing of texts, and so forth. I present our main experience with the use of Elluminate Live and discuss the extent to which this application has turned out to be helpful in developing the quality of online courses.
This is the report from the 1st annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 6th-7th of November 2000. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway
This is the report from the 3rd annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 2nd of October 2002. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway
This is the report from the 4th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 9th-10th of October 2003. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway
This is the report from the 5th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 27th-29th of September 2004. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway
This is the report from the 6th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced in 2005. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway
This is the report from the 7th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 5th-6th of October 2006. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway
This is the report from the 8th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 18th-19th of October 2007. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway
This is the report from the 9th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 21st-23rd of October 2008. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway
This is the report from the 10th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 21st-23rd of October 2009. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway
Presentations at this years Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples all recognized the current strengthening of indigenous rights at global, regional and national levels – as evidenced by the growing body of documents outlining comprehensive ideals for indigenous rights. These are laid out in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) the International Labour Organization Convention 169 (ILO 169), and in other global, regional and national documents recognizing indigenous rights. Many of the presentations also gave concrete examples of how these ideals are easily bypassed by governments and corporations when they are inconvenient for them, and what other challenges can arise in efforts to implement indigenous peoples right to participation. What are the possible solutions? What is the way out of the ‘implementation gap’ as many referred to it? How can we move forward productively in a way that allows for indigenous peoples to really participate in decision-making processes that affect them – not only those are defined as ‘indigenous’ but at all levels? These were the questions that the conference presentations addressed.
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This is the report from the 11th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous
Peoples, which commenced the 24th-26th of October 2010. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted
the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
The article discusses the activities of both indigenous people and religion online, and introduces the pair of concepts indigeneity-online/online-indigeneity as a means of analysing this activity. This concept is new, and leans heavily on the pair of concepts religion-online/online-religion that is used in religious studies. The second part of the article consists of an analysis of the website www.osko.no, a site for the Christian education of Sami children and youth. I treat this as an expression of, or a medium for, the contemporary formation of Sami identity, and argue that it can be seen as an indigenous website. The Church of Norway, as an institution with a strong history of colonization and Norwegianization, has developed into an institution that seeks to integrate, implement and strengthen the Sami voices and traditions to such extent thatSami Christians use it as platform for the communication of a Sami kind of Christianity. www.osko.no is an example of a certain articulation of Sami identity. What seems to be the preferred or idealized Saminess is related to nature and a particular past, and is distant to modernity, urban culture and Norwegian culture.
The Barents Institute of the University of Tromsø and the Centre for North European and Baltic Studies of the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Relations (MGIMO) jointly launched, in 2011, the so-called Futures of Northern Cross-Border Collaboration Project. It brought together academic researchers and public and business managers with different specialities into a multidisciplinary network. This publication is a selection of the presentations held by the group at a round-table organised at MGIMO in 2011. In the first part of the book the “New North” is discussed, i.e. the new geopolitical power-field that has resulted from Arctic melting. The latter causes many environmental problems but on the bright side of things, at sea, diminishing ice opens new routes in the Arctic Ocean that will be important to international shipping. This also facilitates access to off-shore fossil fuel extraction on the large continental shelves of the circumpolar North. The second section of this book discusses the various challenges that are now urgent to address. Sound stewardship and sustainable economic growth can only be based on proactive development of knowledge through research, by continuing the successes of cultural and professional partnerships in the European north and by expanding the scopes and availability of cross-border programmes in higher education.
Presentation at the 11th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 24th-26th of October 2010. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Full conference report available in Munin at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2941