The iCapisce Foundation
The iCapisce Foundation was established in 2014 with one clear aim. The Directors agreed from the outset not to duplicate services, supply lines and overheads already in place with so many other initiatives both domestically and internationally. Rather, we set out to make those services more effective by supplying education systems and services to them to help them, help more people, more effectively.
Projects
Indigenous Language Preservation
The goal of the Indigenous Language Preservation Project is to capture the:
- 120 spoken languages of the Indigenous Peoples of Australia
- and, in time, the balance of 130 "lost" and unspoken languages
in a single education platform that can be used, with the permission of each group of Elders, to teach younger generations and allied health service providers, the essentials of each culture.
Today, it is generally agreed that there are 250 different language groups with 633 different dialects (Arthur Capel). Anthropologist Norman B Tindale spent over 50 years researching First Australian languages and cultures, attempting to identify all 340 languages spoken prior to colonisation. In 1974, he published the book Aboriginal Tribes of Australia which contains numerous maps combined into one national view.
Doug Robertson is working alongside the elders of the eight major language centres in W.A. to record:
- 500 commonly used aboriginal words in 50 terminology topics
- 500 commonly used aboriginal phrases in 50 phraseology topics
Project Extract:
This project supports a strong push by Aboriginal groups to preserve languages as a means of restoring culture and building esteem in the reconciliation era. More than 200 languages have been lost since Federation and the remaining 100 are critical to restoring cultural identity and addressing underlying social concerns.
This project will preserve eight Aboriginal languages in W.A. in a form that facilitates teaching current and successive generations. A second but important goal, is to make "language" easily accessible to both Aboriginal and non Aboriginal students, community service providers and local businesses.
This initiative affects 76,000 Aboriginal people in Western Australia and 787,000 Australia wide.
Australia has a growing lexicon of Indigenous words that are benign to the learning process. iCapisce offers a mechanism to learn those words, and the phrases they form, in short bite-size, repeatable topics. iCapisce uses multi-modal learning techniques to build strong and reliable vocabulary that can be used by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
The project will capture eight main languages and make them available to “stakeholders” including elders, young people, students, allied health and education service providers. The digitised information will be stored securely in the cloud and made available to community groups with the approval of Elders.
We welcome your help on this very important project. To make contact and get more information please email Doug@iCapisce.com or email Indigenous@iCapisce.com for a copy of the detailed project plan.
South Pacific Education Hub
Our South Pacific neighbours are being actively courted by China to sign one-sided trade deals that deliver supplies to China and cash to local government officials.
Islands, ports, jetties, fisheries, canneries, timber, coconuts and minerals are being exploited at the expense of sustainable, sovereign, economic growth.
Health, education and long term employment are also suffering. There are now several generations of islanders that can't compete scholastically. They will never qualify for tertiary studies. They won't qualify for skilled work. They will never have the opportunity to help advance their economies. They will always be dependent on foreign aid.
Four couples would like to take iCapisce into Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. Connections have been made with Education Ministers and Senior Public Servants and the door is wide open to help their struggling education systems.
In time, the iCapisce Foundation is committed to developing an education hub in Cairns, Far North Queensland, to serve our South Pacific neighbours. The hub would be used to train indigenous peoples and islanders to develop and deliver iCapisce topics in local villages and schools.
iCapisce can offer young people a fighting chance to learn and grow. With sufficient time and scholarships we may be able to produce leaders that can turn their economies into sustainable sources of wealth and health for successive generations.
Indian Ocean Rim Strategy
The iCapisce Foundation is seeking partners in the delivery of western education services to the developing nations around the Indian Ocean rim.
The vision for the strategy came from Mr Tony George, Principal, The Kings School, Sydney, while he was Principal at St.Stephen's School in Duncraig, W.A. … why can't we serve our Indian Ocean neighbours with the education tools and content and help them escape the poverty cycle.
Preliminary work with organisations such as Transform Cambodia and Project Compassion serve to highlight that western education content is welcome in those countries to help people, young and old, develop skills that will serve them in a global economy.
We're looking to form ties with organisations that would like to build a cohesive service delivery plan.
It is envisaged that iCapisce could be disseminated to regional areas via teaching graduates in a post graduation gap-year.
I welcome initial contact at iCapisce.Foundation@iCapisce.com or Harvey@iCapisce.com
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