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Bioregional, Community and Location-specific Questionnaire

Being co-designed with native speakers, language experts and bioregionalism practitioners.

This questionnaire gathers what a community knows about its own place, language and daily life. The answers are meant to guide which AI-literacy materials are made next, and in which language.

It can be answered on paper, in a group discussion, or by one person. There are no right or wrong answers. This is the current draft, and it is still being revised with community members.

1 Your place

  1. Which river, pond, well or other water source does your household depend on?
  2. Which trees and plants around your village do you use for food, medicine, fodder or shade?
  3. Which animals and birds are common here, and which have become rare?
  4. How have the seasons, the rainfall or the land changed in your lifetime?

2 Your language

  1. Which language do you speak at home? In the market? With officials?
  2. Are there words, sayings or songs in your language that younger people no longer use?
  3. Where do you see your language written: on signs, in books, on phones, or nowhere?
  4. When a phone or an app does not work in your language, what do you do?

3 Your community's knowledge

  1. Which skills and crafts is your village known for?
  2. Who in the community holds knowledge about farming, weather, health or stories?
  3. Which festivals, fairs and gatherings matter most here?
  4. Is there knowledge you would not want written down or shared outside the community?

4 Technology today

  1. Which devices does your household use: a feature phone, a smartphone, a shared phone, a computer?
  2. Which apps or services do you use most, and in which language?
  3. What has technology made easier for you? What has it made harder?
  4. Have you, or anyone you know, been misled by something seen on a phone?

5 Consent and ownership

  1. Do you want your answers to be shared outside your community? With whom?
  2. Should your answers be stored with your name, with your village's name, or without any name?
  3. If your words or your voice are used to build language tools, what should the community receive in return?

Answers collected with this questionnaire belong to the people who gave them. Nothing is shared outside the community without clear agreement.