Georgia Birks: Can you share a brief outline of the networking tool you’re working on with Ballardong/Whadjuk and Ngemba community members?
Susan Beetson: The Elders I work with want to create an opportunity for Traditional Custodians and our communities to digitize our Knowledges to retain authority and maintain custodianship.
We want to create opportunities for us [First Nations peoples] to recognize our own cultural health. By cultural health, I mean what we as a community know about our Knowledges, our Country, our people, and our culture. We thought the best way to do that was to create Culture Hubs, where we digitize our Knowledges both in a digital storage place and on an entrepreneurial platform. Community members store digitized artefacts or Knowledges on this platform and a webserver allows the public to view versions of those Knowledges via the internet. Individual community members can market their
