Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management in Northern Australia. Making collective memory with computers

http://www.cdu.edu.au/centres/ik/pdf/DigTech_IndigPlaceAust.pdf

This article highlights discoveries made from a research project that was conducted to obtain information on ways that many Indigenous people in northern Australia use digital technologies in promoting the interests of their traditional groupings, their clan lands, histories, connections and places. In addition, the article examined the ways that Indigenous peoples use possibilities the technologies offered in producing seeming definitive representations to achieve political ends when dealing with representatives of mainstream Australia.