Module 6: Digital Scholarship
Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship
Defining the principle of digital scholarship
Digital scholarship facilitates new culturally aware methods of research. This culturally aware research includes:
- Expanding sources of evidence
- Changing the approach to research through inclusivity.
- Altering and challenging the way researchers do research.
Learner notes
Fundamental knowledge of digital scholarship
- Understand the challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples in accessing technology.
- Practice finding, choosing, and sharing Indigenous technologies that are relevant and relatable for First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Urban Indigenous People.
- Use technologies that are relevant and responsive to Indigenous self-determination and share those resources with others.
Challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples in the technology industry
“According to a 2019 study by Toronto Metropolitan University’s Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, only 2.2% of the people working in the Canadian tech industry are Indigenous.
“Barriers are built up as a result of digital connectivity being poor or absent in remote Indigenous Nations, thus limiting Indigenous Peoples’ career pathways in tech.”
—Cited from Supporting Indigenous People in Tech: Empowering Canada’s Indigenous Communities | Jarvis (jrvs.ca)
Indigenous Peoples are under-represented in the technology workforce, and as a result, technologies that are relevant and responsive to Indigenous Peoples are also limited.