Indigenous Australians in the information age

Wednesday, June 17th

Dyson, L. E. (2003, June). Indigenous Australians in the information age: exploring issues of neutrality in information technology. In ECIS (pp. 557-559). Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.85.1180&rep=rep1&type=pdf

This article suggests that the nature of IT, although not culturally neutral, allows indigenous Australians to express themselves without suffering western enculturation. IA’ s are enthusiastic about new technology but have low adoption rates due to lack of funds and low tech literacy rates

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