Territorial Defense of the Informational Extractivism

Abstract

This article arise from one of the results of the process of creating the Communal Documentation and Research Center by means of the collective work of the Nasa community in the Ancestral Territory of Sa'th Tama Kiwe (Caldono, Cauca) with the accompaniment of the «Information science, society and Culture» Research Group. It focuses the analisys in the way in which this proposal has been formulated by the community as a Territorial Defense strategy as well as a mean of strenghtening their repository of wisdom and knowledge. A notion of Information society is proposed from a local perspective to deveal the inconformity of the community towards the systematic deprives and expropriations by means of the instrumental logic that intend constantly mercantilize and permeate the local information and knowledge. This pool of local knowledge and information is configured as a vital part of the territory and as such must be first safeguarded and be dialogued at the inner sphere of the community to comprehensively strenghten it.