Lyndon Ormond-Parker
Centre for Health and Society
Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation
The University of Melbourne
 Identity and Culture
 Maintain and Use
Language
 Maintain Kinship Ties
 Relationship to Land and
Waters
 Aboriginal Art Centre
 Language and Cultural
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Centres
Land Councils and
Native Title Bodies
Libraries and Museums
Historical Societies
Indigenous Knowledge
Centres (Digital
Archives)
 The Ara Iritija Project
 Northern Territory
Libraries (Community
Stories)
 The Mulka Project
(Yolngu Archive &
Production)
Elements of a Successful Digital Economy
 Government: lays the foundations for Australia's digital
infrastructure
 Government: facilitates innovation
 Government: sets conducive regulatory frameworks
 Industry: demonstrates business digital confidence and builds
digital skills
 Industry: adopts smarter use of technology to improve our
environmental sustainability
 Industry: develops sustainable online content models
 Community: enjoys digital confidence and media literacy
 Community: experiences inclusive digital participation
 Community: benefits from online engagement
 Technology changes and
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format shifting
Physical threats to local
collections
Lack of IT Expertise
Financial constraints
Data Loss
 Maintain archives in
regional and remote
locations
 Preservation and storage
 Technical support and
training
 Expertise in archiving
 Two thirds under 30
 49% aged under 20 years
 over two-thirds (68%) of
Indigenous people lived
outside the major cities,
 44% living in regional
areas and
 24% living in remote
 (Source: Australian
Bureau of Statistics)
 Preservation of physical and digital archive collections
for the intergenerational transference of knowledge
 The digital economy offers relevance and importance for
a growing up digital Indigenous population
 Community based digital archives provide a range of
cultural and social programs for engaging young people
 IT and mobile technologies are an important delivery
platform for content creation, distribution, viewing and
the intergenerational transfer of knowledge
 A National body to support local community sector
 Specific government policy and funding to ensure;
 Management of physical and digital archives
 Target young people for engagement in the IT sector
 Support the collection, creation and delivery of
content
 Support institutions to return digital archives – film
photos, manuscripts
 Cultural rights of Indigenous Australians are
incorporated into the development of the digital
economy