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SideWiki could help Indigenous Peoples combat Fraud and ID theft

Published on October 5, 2009 By karaitiana

Finally Indigenous Peoples who have faced identity theft or exploitation on web sites have a new option to voice the illegitimate use of the site by using a new Google tool Side Wiki http://www.google.com/sidewiki . Once installed as part of the Google Toolbar, Side Wiki allows you to post public comments and information about web [...]

What next if your Indigenous domain name has already been registered ?

Published on August 31, 2009 By karaitiana

For many Indigenous Peoples and any other organisation it is common to prepare to register your domain name only to find that someone has cyber squatted it or perhaps a member is using it for their own use. Too often groups are confined to thinking that if their name is not available in the .com, [...]

Issues for Māori Language with IDN being released

Published on August 7, 2009 By karaitiana

Issue 1: An immediate issue for Māori Language is the use of the umlaut (äëïöü). There are two issues here. (a) For many years the umlaut was implemented as an alternative for the macron and is widely accepted as a macron. It is quite likely that a user with Māori fonts will use an umlaut [...]

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