Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2016 Nominee

The eBorneo Knowledge Fair


Description

The eBorneo Knowledge Fair (eBKF) is a bi-annual community-based un-conference held in the central Borneo highlands of Sarawak, Malaysia. It showcases the local use of ICTs for sustainable development in isolated rural indigenous communities, as well as identifying new research into uses of ICTs that communities will welcome. It is organised in conjunction with the local community, bringing together researchers, practitioners, government officials and policy makers with the resident indigenous peoples, in both Malaysia and neighbouring Indonesia.

Project website

http://www.ebkf.org/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development 2016
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 1: No poverty
  • Goal 2: Zero hunger
  • Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
  • Goal 13: Climate action
  • Goal 15: Life on land

Coverage
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia

Status

Completed

Start date

15 November 2007

End date

19 November 2015


Entity name

Institute of Social Informatics and Technological Innovations, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Entity country—type

Malaysia Other

Entity website

http://www.isiti.unimas.my/

Partners

eBario Sdn Bhd; the organisation that operates the eBario telecentre and Radio Bario community radio station. Cornell University Human Dimensions Research Unit, Dept. of Natural Resources. The Smart Villages Initiative; Oxford University & Cambridge University. FORMADAT; the Alliance of the Indigenous Peoples of the Highlands of Borneo. Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions The International Network for Postgraduate Students in the area of ICT4D Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, the regulatory body for communications and multimedia. Maxis Bhd. leading communications service provider in Malaysia. UNDP