Social media gives voice to indigenous communities

With about half the world’s indigenous people living in cities -where connection to the wired world is comparatively easy – electronic media is playing a growing role in promoting their rights. “Thanks to the Internet, it only takes a couple of seconds for news related to indigenous communities to travel from one part of the world to the other,” says Karmen Ramirez Boscan, who runs the community website www.indigenousportal.com.