Indigenous Australians are often keen to use digital technologies in their struggle to develop sustainable livelihoods on their own lands. This paper tells of gradually coming to recognize how an Aboriginal Australian elder struggled against the grain of digital technologies designed to represent, in using them in Aboriginal Australian knowledge […]
2007 • Australia • digital tools • indigenous / traditional knowledge • representation • YolnguDigital Technologies and Aboriginal Knowledge Practices
Indigenous Australians are often keen to use digital technologies in their local knowledge practices as part of a struggle to develop sustainable livelihoods on-country. They want to use digital technologies to ensure that ‘history stays in-place’, seeing their knowledge practices as expressing the remaking of an Ancestral reality. This paper […]
2007 • ancestors • Australia • development • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge tradition • representation • YolnguThe Role of Information Technologies in Indigenous Knowledge Management
Increasingly, communities and organisations around the world are realising the value and significance of Indigenous Knowledge and the importance of preserving it for future generations. Indigenous Knowledge Centres (IKCs) are being established globally, but particularly in Australia, Africa, Latin America and Asia. The capture and preservation of Indigenous Knowledge is […]
2006 • appropriate technology • culture | preservation • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systems • revitalizationRights Markup Extensions for the Protection of Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous cultures have experienced a renaissance over the past 5-10 years as indigenous communities have recognized the importance of documenting and sharing their cultural heritage and history. This has coincided with the explosion of the internet and the widespread application of multimedia technologies to the construction of large online cultural […]
2002 • cultural heritage • cultural protocols • digital collections • documenting • intellectual property • protection • XMLSoftware Tools for Indigenous Knowledge Management
Indigenous communities are beginning to realize the potential benefits which digital technologies can offer with regard to the documentation and preservation of their histories and cultures. However they are also coming to understand the opportunities for misuse and misappropriation of their knowledge which may accompany digitization. In this paper we […]
2002 • cultural heritage • culture | preservation • digital tools • indigenous communities • misappropriation • open source • revitalization