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Tonga Online
„Tonga.Online“ is a project on media, information & communication technology and art focusing on the Tonga people in the remote Zambezi Valley bordering Zimbabwe and Zambia.
The project goal is to promote a Tonga voice on the Internet. In turn it provides people in the Tonga area with the most advanced tool to communicate and to represent themselves to the outside world.
What are the implications, results and effects of such an endeavour? This was and still is a matter of discussion and reflection within the working group, among the stakeholders involved and with the wider public.
The project reflects the gaps and imbalances, which still exist or are rather widening in the 'global village'. Such imbalances are no longer just a question of resources but also of access and the capacity to use modern communication tools. Access has become a crucial question of political rights too: 'In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.' (Nelson Mandela)
Source: Peter Kuthan / Sabine Bitter / Thomas Schneider / Helmut Weber
Cross-reference: The right to reprint is reserved for the press; no royalties will be due only with proper copyright attribution.
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