Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Asean e-Culture Exchange workshop to guide youths, preserve heritage digitally

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Asean e-Culture Exchange workshop to guide youths, preserve heritage digitally

Borneo Bulletin, Brunei, P. Marilyn,

The guest of honour in a group picture with participants from Asean
countries in their respective traditional costumes. - PHOTOS: P MARILYN

The first Asean e-Culture Exchange workshop for youths officially began yesterday at the Seameo Voctech Regional Centre in Gadong, marking another significant milestone for the region in guiding youths as potential leaders of the future.

It also aims to provide youths with the necessary knowledge and skills to maintain their respective national heritage using advanced technologies.

Organised by the Authority for Info-Communications Technology Industry (AITI), the programme was officially launched by AITI's Chief Executive, Pg Hj Md Zain Pg Hj Abd Razak.

Its objective was partly to create awareness among Asean youths on e-Culture. To be held until March 27, the event sees the participation of some 30 Asean youths from local and foreign institutions.

In his speech, Pg Hj Md Zain highlighted the importance of preserving the Asean heritage digitally for youths, as they are the leaders of the future and hence it is crucial to provide them with the right opportunities, as well as to give them some guidance.

Heritage, he stated, is our national identity and preserving it is vital to allow future generations to learn and understand the extent of what we have become today.

By fully utilising the latest advancements of technology, we can make our life so much better and easier in many aspects every day, said Pg Hj Md Zain.

Her added that the workshop will not only attempt to produce a standard framework for digitising Asean cultural contents, but will also guide the participants to carry out preservations of culture and heritage in a professional and systematic way, thereby leading to a better conservation of the future.

"I hope that this programme will not only promote awareness and appreciation of ICT, but I also hope that it will create a ripple effect as the first major step in maintaining the Asean cultural contents," he told participants.

This, he said, is in line with the Asean charter - to promote Asean identity in fostering greater awareness on the region's diverse culture and heritage. Continuous commitment and support from all Asean member countries will ensure the success of meeting the event's main objectives.

"This workshop will remain as one of the significant platforms through which mutual respect, friendship, solidarity and the cohesive spirit among participating countries can be cultivated and further enhanced," he added.

Throughout the duration of the course, participants will be taught the basic skills and methods of capturing, recording, as well as storing several cultural activities and items, in a more professional and systematic way.

Topics to be covered during the three-day programme include an overview of e-Culture or e-Heritage, as well as the need for digitisation, archiving and sharing information through the enhancements of ICT.

The e-Culture initiatives and possibilities through ICT will also be focused on. This includes digitisation techniques, such as video archiving and the use of Web technology to map, store and edit its contents.

Visits to several Brunei museums are also among the event's agendas, to allow participants to practise a "hands-on" approach with their newly acquired skills and knowledge.

At the end of the programme, participants are also expected to develop a small cultural project that will be presented during the group presentations.

A roundtable discussion will also be held, led by the local project coordinator, expert facilitators and representatives from relevant agencies in Brunei to discuss the way forward for the sustainability of e-Culture and e-Heritage.

To maintain the momentum, a second workshop will also be tentatively held in a few months' time. The current event's participants will be asked to create their own small cultural projects from their respective home countries that will later be developed into e-Culture profiles.

The first workshop is funded partially by the Asean ICT Fund and facilitated by a local project consultant as well as its expert facilitators.