While ongoing struggles for self-determination play a complex role in the drive to bring the information age to indigenous communities in Australia and around the world it can be argued that self-determination within one system may well be a further buy to another, the issue that needs to be raised before any question of indigenous usage of the internet is addressed is whose information infrastructure or infostructure determines what is valued in an economy whether in a local community or the greater local economy which they are linked to.
Reference
Ginsburg, F, “Rethinking the Digital Age,” in Global Indigenous Media, Pamela Wilson and Michelle Steward, Eds., pp. 287-306.