Indigenous Approaches to Technology and Trust — Part 1: What Is Indigeneity?

Technological infrastructures carry colonial turbulence, as seen in data mining extraction, predictive policing and overall mass surveillance. This turbulence requires spaces where Indigenous people can assert their voice, experience, and knowledge resulting in a communal consensus to help shape technological infrastructures with care. How do indigenous people negotiate contemporary digital life, and what culturally specific approaches are generated to build trust and safety online? In a series of four seminars curated by Postdoctoral Fellow for Trustworthy Infrastructures at Data & Society, Tiara Roxanne, we will explore Indigenous approaches to technology as points of departure for unpacking trust. Each session will include Indigenous scholars, elders and community members as a means to assert these voices within technological and infrastructural spaces. As Indigenous peoples, it is our birthright to share, receive and hold space for one another. Commissioned Artwork by: Britt Newton