Target Groups

The International Indigenous Internet Portal is focusing to work on:

1. Indigenous Peoples connecting with Indigenous peoples in their own communities

The Portal enables Indigenous Peoples to receive information about Indigenous organizations and activist groups as well as events and projects in their own region in their own languages. It also makes it possible to read, listen or even watch local and regional news and information in regional Indigenous languages. Indigenous Peoples within the region have the possibility to get involved in producing content to regional Portal pages.

2. Indigenous Peoples who want to connect with Indigenous Peoples from other world regions

The Portal enables all the Indigenous Peoples of all the world regions to receive information about the organizations, activist groups, events and projects of all the regions both in Indigenous and UN languages. It also makes it possible for all the Indigenous Peoples to receive information and news about each other. The Portal will aim at creating a database of all Indigenous organizations, activists etc. involved in the project to make it easier for Indigenous Peoples to communicate in inter-regional level.

3. Non-indigenous peoples with an interest in Indigenous issues

Portal will provide reliable accurate information about Indigenous Peoples for non-Indigenous peoples with an interest in Indigenous issues such as NGOs, governments, journalists and students. The database will also make it easier to contact Indigenous persons or organizations for further information.

However, while enabling access to information about Indigenous Peoples provided by Indigenous Peoples the project will pay special attention to recognizing and respecting the cultural obligations of Indigenous Peoples towards communicating, sharing, disseminating, using and applying their knowledge. Indigenous cultures provide for rules and regulations on communicating, sharing, using and applying traditional knowledge. These rules and regulations are cultural obligations they have to comply with and are part of their own customary laws. Intellectual property Rights (IPR's) are emerging as one of the most central issues for Indigenous Peoples in the Information Society, thus any representation of their cultures needs to be protected from misappropriation.