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Day 1. Tuesday 13 July 2010

THEME

STREAM 1

THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE:
MAPPING, MANAGEMENT AND ARCHIVES

STREAM 2

CULTURAL INNOVATION, TRANSMISSION, AND COMMUNICATION

 
VENUE

THE SHINE DOME
Australian Academy of Science

ARC CINEMA
National Film and Sound Archive

 
8.00 - 9.15
Registration
9.15 - 9.45
Welcome to Country and Official Opening
9.45 - 10.30

KEYNOTE

Ara Irititja and Beyond
Josephine Mick and Sally Scales

10.30 - 11.00
Morning Tea
11.00 - 12.30

1A1. Mapping and Management  1

Chair: Dave Johnston

1. Neil Ward: Use and Occupancy Mapping in the MurrayDarlingBasin.

3. Shierese Cunningham & Bruce Birch: The Akarlda Cultural Mapping Project

2. Dennis Barber & Kevin Guy:  Connecting to Country – Mapping Cultural Values through Digital Stories

1B1. Digital media and Cultural Innovation

Chair: Aaron Corn

1. Djangirrawuy Garawirrtja: From Shortwave to YouTube: Exploring the Yolŋu embrace of new media and technologies through the legacy of Soft Sands and the rise of the Chooky Dancers

2. Benjamin Wilfred & Desmond Wilfred (Australian Art Orchestra) with Aaron Corn and Samuel Curkpatrick (ANU): A New Manikay: Digital audio technologies and aural organicism in the Australian Art Orchestra’s Crossing Roper Bar

3. Genevieve Campbell: Returning Tiwi songs to the community: using archived song recordings to rediscover language, history and art practice.

 
12.30 - 1.30
Lunch
1.30 - 3.00

1A2.  Mapping and Management 2

Chair: Dave Johnston

1. Micha Jackson: I-Tracker : technology-based tools to support Indigenous rangers to manage their traditional land and sea estates in north Australia

2. D. Barrett, I. Beasley, J. Bradley, N. Fitzpatrick, G. Friday, A. Grech, S. Johnson, A. Johnston, F. Keighran, H. Marsh, R. Miller, L. Norman, L. Norman, G. J. Parra, D. Pracy, T. Simon, S. Whiting and the Yanyuwa families: Developing a decision process based on Traditional Knowledge to inform the management of dugongs and coastal dolphins in the Yanyuwa Sea Country of the Northern Territory

1B2. Digital Media and Cultural Transmission

Chair: Aaron Corn

1. Steve Wanta Jampijinpa Patrick & Yukihiro (Jungarayi) Doi: Milpirri 2009 and beyond.

2. Matthew Martin & Sally Treloyn: Keeping junba strong: using digital technologies to support song and dance in the Kimberley

3. William Pambruk & Mark Crocombe: BRACS, RIBS and digital mapping of Country; work in Wadeye

4. Jeff Doring:  Record, Protect, Survive

 
3.00 - 3.30
Afternoon Tea
3.30 - 5.00

1A3. Mapping and Management 3

Chair: Dave Johnston

1. Troy Mallie & Glen MacLaren: Cultural and Ecological Information Management Systems: Technology for recording and managing cultural and ecological sites  

2. Sean Gordon & Steve Sydenham: Implementing Land Council based IT solutions for the management of Cultural & Heritage Sites

1B3. Digital Media and Cultural Transmission

Chair: Aaron Corn

1. Helen Rrikawuku & Lysbeth Ford: Keeping Milkarri Strong: Documenting Yolŋu women’s crying songs in the Digital Age

2. David & Jenny Manmurulu (Warruwi Community) & Isabel O’Keeffe: Sustaining the Inyjalarrku ‘mermaid’ song tradition

3. Bruce Birch, Charlie Mangulda & James Cooper:  Manyardi of Northwestern Arnhem Land: The Yanajanak Example

 
5.30 - 8.30

FILM SCREENING

National Film and Sound Archive
Followed by a reception

 
       

Day 2. Wednesday 14 July 2010

Top

THEME

STREAM 1

THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE:
MAPPING, MANAGEMENT AND ARCHIVES

STREAM 2

CULTURAL INNOVATION, TRANSMISSION, AND COMMUNICATION

STREAM 3

LANGUAGE REVITALISATION

VENUE

THE SHINE DOME
Australian Academy of Science

ROLAND WILSON BUILDING
Conference Room

ROLAND WILSON BUILDING
Theatrette

9.00 - 10.30

2A1. Community Collecting and Museum Outreach 1

Chair: Lyndon Ormond-Parker

1. Phil Gordon: Communities, Museums and Objects – One model

2. Nicole Ma, Curtis Taylor & Tikka Wilson: Canning Stock Route project: creating the digital archive

3. Michael Cawthorn & Hart Cohen: Digital archives and discoverability: innovating access to the Strehlow collection

2B1.  Access to ICT and Infrastructure

Chair: Sandy O'Sullivan

1. Peter Radoll: The Primary Determinates of Indigenous household Information and Communication Technology Adoption in a rural context

2. Darlene Hoskins-McKenzie: Information is Knowledge & Knowledge is Power - The Information Impoverishment of Aboriginal Peoples in the Information Age

3. Crighton Nichols & Cat Kutay: One Laptop per Child and personalised learning through IT: No-size fits all

2C1. Digital Media and Language Documentation

Chair: Sarah Cutfield

1. Colleen Hattersley: Lexique Pro for Community Language Workers

2. Julia Miller: The importance of ‘Place’: Language documentation and cultural mapping using Google Earth

3. Stephen Cassidy: Government, Indigenous languages and Information Technology

10.30 - 11.00
Morning Tea
11.00 - 12.30

2A2. Community Collecting and Museum Outreach 2

Chair: Lyndon Ormond-Parker

1. Neparrŋa Gumbula , Julia Mant & Aaron Corn:  Archival Discovery, Digital Media and New Recording Initiatives for Yolŋu Music Traditions

2. Debbie Campbell: Trove - a new information destination  for all Australians

3. Robyn van Dyk & Gary Oakley: The Australian War Memorial’s Indigenous service database

2B2. IT and Education 1

Chair: Jeanine Leane

1. Carol Rose Baird, Suraya Bin Talib,  Michelle McLaughlin & Gary Urquhart: Delivering Education Modules Online to Local and Remote Students: a case study from the Kimberley

2. Yingiya Guyula & Dhunumbu Guyula: Using digital technologies and Indigenous research protocols to educate about culture, ancestry and history

3. Kaye Mundine& Cat Kutay: Training for Inclusion

2C2.  Language Revitalisation: Accessing language resources

Chair: Kazuko Obata

1. Honiana Te Puni Love & Neavin Broughton:  Tuku Reo, Tuku Mouri: Information technology in the strategic revitalisation of Te Reo Māori o Taranaki (Taranaki Māori dialect) in Aotearoa New Zealand

2. John Giacon: Gaay Garay Guladha - Language on the web

3. Jason Lee: The Online Language Community Access Program (OLCAP)

12.30 - 1.30
Lunch
1.30 - 3.00

2A3.  Community Collecting and Traditional Knowledge

Chair: Lyndon Ormond-Parker

1. Peta Standley & Victor Steffensen: Building sustainable communities:  Old knowledge and new digital technologies – “We all got to work together.”  [VIA SKYPE]

2.  John Dallwitz, Douglas Mann, Sally Scales, Josephine Mick,  Sabra Thorner; Dora Dallwitz: Ara irititja

3.  Wukun  Wanambi & Rob Lane: Yolngu Digital Archive Networks

2B3. IT and Education 2

Chair: Jeanine Leane

1. Annie Liebzeit  & Karen Adams: How’s your sugar? Using ICT to Maximise engagement in Well being Management

2. Yiŋiya Guyula, Dhäŋgal Gurruwiwi; Dhunumbu Guyula:  Teaching from Country using IT

3. Nelson Conboy: Media training and remote Indigenous communities

2C3. Language Revitalization and the Web

Chair: Jason Lee

1. Heather Bowe, Kathy Lynch & Julie Reid: The Power of I.T.: Revival of Australian (Victoria) Aboriginal Languages

2. Richard Green & Cat Kutay: Culture Online

3. Gadj & Jodie Maymuru: Sharing Culture Online – Connecting kids with Elders, Culture and Communities Through Technology

3.00 - 3.30
Afternoon Tea
3.30 - 5.00

2A4. ICT and Creative Solutions

Chair: Lyndon Ormond-Parker

1. Daniel Featherstone: How Ngaanyatjarra people are using ICTs for Indigenous storytelling

2. Helen Travers & Ernest Hunter:  HITnet: an opportunity for the creation of virtual art galleries and museums in very disadvantaged Indigenous settings across Australia.

3. Laurel Evelyn  Dyson & Fiona Brady:  A Study of Mobile Technology in a Cape York Community: Its reality today and potential for the future

2B4. Voice and Representation

Chair: Sandy O'Sullivan

1. Neco Egas Sarmento: 'While you are still alive: Make something meaningful': The Uma Mutin (White House) Archive, Regeneration and Development Project

2. Gino Orticio: Communities Before Connectivity: Reflections from the Philippine Indigenous Rights Network (2003-2008)

3. Barbara Paulson: Overcoming Cultural Barriers with IT: work at the NationalMuseum of Australia

2C4.  Language, Linguistics and the Web  

Chair: Sarah Cutfield

1. Michael Walsh: The 4th dimension: the future of Netspeak in Indigenous communities

2. Thomas Petzold: What Future for Indigenous Australian Languages in Digital Culture? Language Governance Online and the Pervasiveness of Digital Language Services

3. Mark Dras: Language Technology for Aboriginal Languages: Plans for an Initial Project on Arrernte and Football

6.30 - 9.00

SYMPOSIUM DINNER

The Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science

       

Day 3. Thursday 15 July 2010

Top

THEME

THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE:
MAPPING, MANAGEMENT AND ARCHIVES

CULTURAL INNOVATION, TRANSMISSION, AND COMMUNICATION

 

VENUE

THE SHINE DOME
Australian Academy of Science

ROLAND WILSON BUILDING
Theatrette

 
9.00 - 10.30

3A1. The Social Impact of Digital Media

Chair: Grace Koch

1. Shane White, Maxwell Tasman & Inge Kral:
Remote Indigenous Australian youth, multimodality
and changing media practice

2. Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg: Digital media,
song recording and wellbeing

3. Samia Goudie: “Old ways New ways “ – telling
our stories using new media

3B1. Placing Culture Online: Opportunities and
challenges

Chair: Lyndon Ormond-Parker

1. Merata Kawharu, Michael Hennessy & Hirini Tane:
Ipukarea.com: Launching traditional knowledge into
the internet. A New Zealand case study, its challenges
and opportunities

2. Barbara Glowczewski: Cultural, scientific and
technical issues involved in translating different
media technologies: from Warlpiri networks to digital
data, from multimedia to Internet

3. Reece George & Keith Nesbitt: Developing a
Prototype for an Aboriginal Website

 
10.30 - 11.00
Morning Tea
11.00 - 12.30

3A2. Safeguarding the Virtual World

Chair: Cressida Fforde

1. Michael Aird: Who Will Check Grandma’s Hard Drive?

2. Nick Thieberger: Reuse and responsibility: records and recordings of speakers of Indigenous languages

3. Lyndon Ormond-Parker & Robyn Sloggett: Crashes along the super highway: The information continuum

3B2. Managing Knowledge in the Digital World

Chair: Grace Koch

1. Glenda Nalder & Christopher Matthews: Identifying and addressing rights and responsibilities in the management of Indigenous knowledge projects

2. Sandy O’Sullivan: Parsimony and Accord: Pan-Indigenous Identity struggles in the TechnologyMuseum

3. Kirsten Thorpe: ATSIDA - the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Archive

 
12.30 - 1.30
Lunch
1.30 - 3.30

3A3. Media Associations and Remote Communities

Chair: Jim Remedio

1. Teague Schneiter: The Future Is In High-Speed: Improving accessibility and use of multimedia content in remote areas with IsumaTV's local servers project

2. Rita Cattoni: Innovation & Indigenous Community Television (ICTV)

3. Linda Chellew: Towards a strong Future: The changing role of the Remote Indigenous Communications Sector  in a converging digital economy

DISCUSSION PANEL

   
3.30 - 4.00
Afternoon Tea
4.00 - 5.00

PLENARY DISCUSSION PANEL

Key Issues and Ways forward