Conference Agenda

Session
RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE: HOW TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS ON THE STRUGGLES OF INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES FOR LAND RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Time:
Thursday, 16/Oct/2025:
9:00am - 10:30am

 Location: Room 10g - 2nd Floor

Novo IACS (Instituto de Arte e Comunicação Social) São Domingos, Niterói - State of Rio de Janeiro, 24210-200, Brazil

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Presentations

RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE: HOW TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS ON THE STRUGGLES OF INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES FOR LAND RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Shawna Finnegan1, Gyssele Mendes2, Hazel Acero4, Anabela Carlon3, Silvia Kaarie5

1Association for Progressive Communications, Global; 2Intervozes – Coletivo Brasil de Comunicação Social, Brazil; 3Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), Mexico; 4Manila Observatory KLIMA Centre, Philippines; 5Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program (OPDP), Kenya

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly necessary to highlight struggles against extractivism, including through bringing attention to violations of the land and territorial rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities. These same technologies are increasingly being used to facilitate online attacks and disinformation that are part of a continuum of violence against environmental defenders.

Indigenous-led research, collaboration and solidarity is critical for resistance and resilience in struggles for environmental justice and Indigenous rights. This panel brings together the results of collaborative research with Indigenous peoples and traditional communities in Brazil, Mexico, Kenya and the Philippines to reflect on the impacts of technology in their struggles for environmental justice and their ancestral land rights.

The collaborative research presented in this panel seeks to generate knowledge, build and strengthen alliances, and facilitate networked policy-oriented action to address disinformation and technology-facilitated violence against Indigenous peoples and traditional communities.