On June 1, 2012 I was contacted by Dr. Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca to help her reach out to the Chamorro community to complete a survey for her research in an attempt to explain the importance of information and communication technologies. More specifically her efforts focused on capturing and conveying indigenous cultural knowledge through a case study within the Chamorro people from Guam.
Once again, while performing a random search on the internet, I came across an abstract of Dr. Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca's work and results regarding this survey. The abstract led me to her published paper (co-authored by James Parrish), "Using Social Media to Capture and Convey Cultural Knowledge: A Case of Chamorro People." This paper was presented at the 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences that occurred January 7-10 2013 at the Grand Wailea, Maui, Hawaii.
It is not that often I come across published papers that reference the Chamorro Roots Genealogy Project website and this one did. I was thrilled and honored to see that Dr. Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca referenced one of my blog write-ups and acknowledged me for supporting her research project.
Part of that research included an on-line survey that was created using surveymonkey.com and was accessible for two week weeks through facebook.com, 671recipes.com, and chamorroroots.com. 22 questions were asked and 111 Chamorros responded.
Now, I do not want to give away all the details of the survey responses and outcomes, but I am proud to share this one table of outcomes with you, because I am further honored that many of you use the Chamorro Roots Genealogy Project website (www.chamorroroots.com) to learn and share your knowledge about our Chamorro culture! I am sure that the various Facebook Chamorro groups I am a member of had some survey impact as well!
Gof dångkulu na si Yu'os ma'åse para todos hamyu! Mågåhit na gef pågu i håle' Chamoru!
