Community Call | Pocket Infrastructures and Linguistic Revitalizing on Colombian Amazonas

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In this session we will present how alternative tech stacks, that we call “pocket infrastructures”, combining microwikis, data storytelling and digital malleable metatools are used to preserve and revitalize indigenous linguistic knowledge for the People of the Center (Los Pueblos del Centro) in the Colombian Amazonas

Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas is an apprentice, hacktivist, researcher, teacher and consultant. Founding member of HackBo, a Hackerspace in Bogotá; co-designer of the workshop + (anti)hackaton Data Week / Data Rodas and creator of the (meta)tool Grafoscopio, which has been used in: performative writing and (re)publishing, agile data storytelling and visualization, data feminism, civic hacktivism, reproducible research, making “Big Data” approachable, hypertextual resilient community and interpersonal memory and presences, among other topics.

From spaces, digital tools and community dynamics such as The above-mentioned he inquires for the reciprocal modification between digital (meta)tools and grassroots communities, using what he has called pocket infrastructures and from perspectives that include and bridge: autonomous, reproducible research and publication, digital citizenship and activism, citizen and garage science, malleable digital (meta)tools and critical literacy in code, data and visualizations.

Since 2022 he has been a full time professor in the Department of Information Science at the Faculty of Communication and Language of the Javeriana University, in Bogotá, Colombia.