Whose Voices?

It is a struggle to keep Zapotec, an Indigenous Mexican language with nearly half a million speakers, alive online. But Ana Alonso Ortiz has mobilized to create content in Zapotec.

Listen to the podcast on our website: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/posts/ep11/.

Over the past years, lively discussions championed by African feminists have moved online — but they often take place in colonial languages like English. Jessica Horn reflects about the need to center non-colonial languages online and support those who speak them.

Listen to the podcast on our website: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/posts/ep10/.

Audio interview in Spanish. English transcript available here: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/transcripts/ceciliatuyuc/

[EN] Cecilia Tuyuc is a teacher and language activist from San Juan de Comalapa, Guatemala. In this episode she reflects around racism towards indigenous peoples, online content creation in her native language, the role of women as knowledge keepers, and more!

[ES]: Cecilia Tuyuc, originaria de San Juan de Comalapa, Guatemala, es maestra y activista de lenguas. En este episodio reflexiona sobre el racismo hacia los pueblos indígenas, la creación de contenido en línea en su lengua materna, el papel de las mujeres como guardianas del conocimiento, ¡y mucho más!

Join us in this episode and learn more about Pamela’s experience creating the Veronika Bucket page on Wikipedia. More so, you will be inspired by Pamela’s commitment to show how we can and should give more visibility to women and their achievements online.

Audio interview in Spanish. English transcript available here: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/transcripts/angelacuc/

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Angela Cuc, Maya Kaqchikel y Comunicadora Social, reflexiona acerca de los desafíos para producir y subir contenidos a internet en su idioma, y nos cuenta cómo debido a la discriminación muchos idiomas originarios están en riesgo de desaparecer en Guatemala.

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Angela Cuc, Maya Kaqchikel and Social Communicator, reflects about the challenges of producing and uploading content online in her native language; and how indigenous languages are at risk of being extinguished in Guatemala, due to discrimination towards indigenous people.

Audio interview in Spanish. English transcript available here: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/transcripts/yamanikcholotio/

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Yamanik Cholotío, mujer indígena, feminista y comunicadora guatemalteca, nos invita a cuestionarnos cuáles serían las tecnologías y plataformas más apropiadas, por qué es importante hacerlas más accesibles, y qué necesitamos para acercar a las comunidades tecnológicas e indígenas, a fin descolonizar juntas los idiomas en Internet.

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Yamanik Cholotio, an indigenous feminist woman and Guatemalan communicator, invites us to reflect on which are the most appropriate technologies and platforms for indigenous communities, why it is important to make them more accessible, and what we need to bring tech and indigenous communities closer together in order to decolonize the Internet’s languages.

In this podcast interview we discussed Amira Dhalla’s views on creating safe spaces online, whether the internet should have more governance, and why she believes that understanding what the words ‘colonize’ and ‘decolonize’ mean, is key for facilitating change in people.

Read more: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/posts/episode5/

In this eye-opener conversation Jake Orlowitz shares what brought him to Wikipedia, what are the encyclopedia’s biggest challenges and how we can make alliances and work collectively to fix Wikipedia’s biases.

Read more: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/posts/episode4/

In this interview we talk with Shobha and Pamini about women’s representation online, consent when taking photos, and the ways in which visibility in some cases can be problematic. All through the lenses of a #VisibleWikiWomen edit-a-thon in Bangalore.

Read more: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/posts/episode3/

What story of the world do you choose to tell? Sydette Harry beautifully reminds us that decolonizing ourselves and the internet requires a fundamental change in our relationships. It requires creating a vision, a big dream that we have never dreamed before.

Read more: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/posts/episode2/