All Voices Matter

August 14, 2025

This month, the global community marked the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. This year’s theme, “Indigenous Peoples and AI: Defending Rights, Shaping Futures,”  highlights a critical truth: emerging technologies like AI can help advance equity or deepen disparities, depending on whose voices help shape them.

At Change for Children, we work to uplift Indigenous and marginalized communities by creating opportunities for them to share knowledge that reflects their values, histories, languages, and worldviews. Recently, the inclusive, culturally attuned digital education resources we co-created with Indigenous partners (originally developed for offline servers in off-grid schools to preserve mother-tongue languages and cultural heritage) have now been made available online. (Learn more about the resources HERE and HERE!)

Adding this content to the internet expands the knowledge base from which AI learns. This strengthens global conversations with a richer diversity of perspectives and helps ensure more equal representation in an AI-driven world. Contributing to the body of knowledge is, in itself, an act of shaping the future — one where Indigenous rights are protected, their knowledge is amplified, and their voices remain central.

Central America and the Caribbean Education In The Field Indigenous Peoples