{"id":133,"date":"2024-05-28T16:53:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/indigenousdigitalliteracies\/chapter\/indigenous-led-technology-solutions\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:42:25","slug":"indigenous-led-technology-solutions","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/indigenousdigitalliteracies\/chapter\/indigenous-led-technology-solutions\/","title":{"raw":"Examples of Indigenous-led Technology Solutions","rendered":"Examples of Indigenous-led Technology Solutions"},"content":{"raw":"A digital citizen will research with purpose and intention to find the best tools available to facilitate their students\u2019 learning.\n\nThe following are examples of Indigenous-led technology solutions that are responsive to Indigenous Peoples.\n

Websites<\/h1>\nIndigenous Languages: Maps, Apps & Websites<\/a> is a web page by the Canadian Language Museum that breaks down the Indigenous language groupings in Canada. Here, you can find links to other resources that have more information about specific Indigenous languages, as well as Indigenous languages in general.\n

\"FirstVoicesFirstVoices<\/a> is a collaborative platform designed to help Indigenous Peoples archive language information for teaching and preservation. It is an internationally recognized online platform for Indigenous communities to share and promote their languages, oral cultures, and linguistic histories. FirstVoices provides technologies, training, and technical support to community language champions.<\/p>\n\"Native-LandNative-Land.ca<\/a> creates and supports conversations about colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler\u2013Indigenous relations. This support is offered through educational resources including our map and a territory acknowledgement guide. This is a space for Indigenous communities to self represent while setting their own terms of their representation.\n

Digital maps<\/h1>\n\"MapThe First Nations Profiles Interactive map<\/a> allows you to explore the traditional First Nations territories across Canada and provides contact information for each Nation.\n\n\"First\n\nVisit the First Peoples\u2019 Map of B.C.<\/a>\u00a0to access information on all the First Nations languages and communities in B.C. It will provide you with the language, art, heritage, and points of interests by Nation.\n

Indigenous data sovereignty<\/h1>\n\"OneFeatherOneFeather is planting the seeds of Indigenous data sovereignty.\n\nWatch this video about OneFeather Nation Services<\/a> and learn about OneFeather Mobile Technologies<\/a>.\n\n\"DigitalNWTDigitalNWT<\/a> supports digital literacy and Indigenous sovereignty in northern communities and has developed a series of digital literacy courses.\n

Apps<\/h1>\n\"PhoneKOBE Learn is an app designed to help users learn common words and phrases in Ojibway, Cree and Oji-Cree.\n\nFind it in your app store.\n\n \n\n \n
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\n\nKOBE stands for Keewaytinook Okimakanak Board of Education.\n\nAvailable in Cree, Oji-Cree, and Ojibway. The KOBE Learn apps are designed to assist users in learning 500 different words and phrases from the three traditional languages, which are languages of northern communities served by KOBE.\n\nSource and recommended readings: KOBE launches Indigenous language apps (siouxbulletin.com)<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\"WhoseWhose Land<\/a> is a land acknowledgements app. This app can tell you whose land you\u2019re on based on exact location. Using geographic information system (GIS) technology, you can learn all about the Indigenous territory you\u2019re on. In addition, there are videos of land acknowledgements made by people from those communities. Seen as a conversation starter, Whose Land hopes to be a tool of reconciliation.\n\n\"Reconciliation:Reconciliation: A Starting Point<\/a> is an educational app that makes the complexities of reconciliation easier to grasp. Although meant for public servants and made by the Canada School of Public Service, anyone can use it to learn about the distinctions between First Nations, Inuit, and M\u00e9tis people. It also shows examples of the federal government's approaches to reconciliation.\n
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Source and recommended readings: Indigenous Reconciliation in the Google Play store<\/a>, 5 apps for learning about Indigenous life and history | CBC Life<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Music, movies, and video games<\/h1>\nTo view the world's largest Indigenous music library, visit the Indigenous Cloud Network<\/a>.\n\nDiscover the National Film Board's rich online collection of Indigenous cinema<\/a>.\n\nRead \"5 Indigenous Video Games You Should Be Playing\"<\/a> on A Tribe Called Geek.\n\nRead this news article: Indigenous sisters developing video games to revitalize Mohawk language<\/a>.\n

Social media<\/h1>\nWatch this video: My Haida Language Story in 60 Seconds<\/a>.\n
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Suggested activity: Have your students record their 60-second cultural journey.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Digital archives<\/h1>\n\"Plateau\n\nView a digital archive of Plateau cultural materials at the Plateau Peoples\u2019 Web Portal<\/a>.\n

VR, AR, and AI<\/h1>\n\"Spirits\n\nThe Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Working Group develops new conceptual and practical approaches to building the next generation of A.I. systems. The group asks questions like, \"From an Indigenous perspective, what should our relationship with A.I. be?\"\n\nTo learn more about their work, visit Indigenous AI<\/a>.\n

Digital radio and television<\/h1>\n\"TeTe Hiku Media<\/a> is a charitable organization whose core focuses include M\u0101ori language revitalization, as well as archiving and training.\n

Education<\/h1>\nThe Digital Literacy Hub<\/a> project by the Aboriginal Literacy Foundation aims to bring to one interactive, digital platform a range of assets, networks, libraries, schooling resources, tools, and portals that will make the educational experience of our Indigenous students and their families a much easier and more interactive one.\n\n\"Digital\n\n\"IndigenousThe Indigenous Innovation Initiative<\/a> aims to empower and build capacity of First Nations, Inuit, and M\u00e9tis innovators and Indigenous communities to identify, lead and resolve their own issues and shepherd inclusive social change through innovation.\n\n\"FirstThe First Nations Technology Council<\/a> is an Indigenous-led non-profit that serves all Indigenous Peoples in B.C. Their mandate is to provide digital skills training to Indigenous learners, support digital equity, and ensure Indigenous Peoples are actively leading and shaping the technology sector.\n\n\"JellyJelly Academy<\/a> aims to give their\u00a0students the skills, experience\u00a0and knowledge to be at the cutting edge\u00a0of\u00a0industry,\u00a0ensuring they\u2019re equipped with in-demand skills. Founder Darian Kovacs had two goals: to make education more accessible and attainable to the underrepresented in the digital industry and to equip talent pool with the digital skills to succeed in the digital age.\n

\"AnimikiiAnimikii<\/a> offers website and software development.<\/p>\nAnimikii implements technology in a culturally informed and respectful way through collaboration with their clients. Their goal is to empower communities and increase access to technology.\n

Storytelling<\/h1>\n\"Terrastories\n\nTerrastories<\/a> is an Indigenous led-platform designed to record and capture\u00a0oral history\u00a0through storytelling from Indigenous Peoples. It is a geographical based storytelling application developed\u00a0to enable Indigenous communities to locate, discover\u00a0and map their own oral storytelling.\n\n\"Indigenous\n\nIndigenous Storytime<\/a> is digital storytelling that honours oral traditions. Teachers and storytellers from all across Turtle Island are invited to contribute.\n

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