Lyndon Ormond-Parker

Centre for Health and Society

Centre for Cultural Materials ConservationThe University of Melbourne

Identity and Culture

Maintain and Use Language

Maintain Kinship Ties

Relationship to Land and Waters

Aboriginal Art CentreLanguage and Cultural

CentresLand Councils and

Native Title BodiesLibraries and

MuseumsHistorical SocietiesIndigenous 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 format shifting

Physical threats to local collections

Lack of IT ExpertiseFinancial constraintsData Loss

Maintain archives in regional and remote locations

Preservation and storage

Technical support and training

Expertise in archiving

Two thirds under 3049% 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 archivesTarget young people for engagement in the

IT sectorSupport the collection, creation and delivery

of contentSupport institutions to return digital archives

– film photos, manuscriptsCultural rights of Indigenous Australians are

incorporated into the development of the digital economy