[Air-L] Indigenous/First peoples and digital data/information

[Lonny J Avi Brooks]

Geoff,

Meant to introduce myself and affiliations below. Your questions resonate
with me. Thanks.

Lonny
aka Avi
aka "Mixcoatl" (Our Galaxy in Nahuatl, language of the Aztecs/Toltecs)

Twitter: @avilonny
Insta: @avilonny

Lonny J Avi Brooks, PhD. <http://comm.csueastbay.edu/dr-lonny-j-avi-brooks/>

*Summer Chair *2019, Department of Communication
*Associate Professor* in Strategic Communication | Communication & Media
Studies
Department of Communication
California State University East Bay

I play a number of roles in our multiverse, Native slipstream:

   - *Resident Afrofuturist | Co-Executive Producer, Co-Creator **with
   Ahmed Best, Host and Co-Executive Producer, Co-Creator*@The Afrofuturist
   Podcast with Ahmed Best on iTunes
   <https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/theafrofuturistpodcast/id1250649880>
    https://www.facebook.com/theafrofuturistpodcast/ *"Shifting the Lens:
   Democratizing, imagining anti-racist futures where Black Futures
Matter"**--Ahmed
   Best & Lonny Avi Brooks*


   - *Creative Director for California BSAM & BSAM Futures, (Black
   Speculative Arts Movement) Board member and organizer (Oakland), see the
   national and global movement at bsam-art.com <http://bsam-art.com>*


   - *Research Affiliate
   <http://www.iftf.org/what-we-do/who-we-are/affiliates/lonnybrooks/>,
   Institute For The Future*


   - *Long Now Research Fellow
   <http://longnow.org/people/associate/lonnyavi/>, Long Now Foundation*


   - *Co-Game Designer and Co-Creative Director, Afro-Rithms From The
   Future game
   <https://hyperallergic.com/501352/afrofuturist-podcast-eli-kominsky-neuehouse/>
|
   afrorithmsfromthefuture at gmail.com <afrorithmsfromthefuture at gmail.com>*


   - *Editorial Board: Handbook of Universal Foresight:
   www.universalforesight.com <http://www.universalforesight.com>*


*“She told me the world was made of stories, nothing else, just stories,
and stories about stories.” ― Tommy Orange, There There
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/books/review/tommy-orange-there-there.html>*


On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 4:01 AM Lonny J Avi Brooks <dr.brooks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Geoff,
>
> A few folx here below who may have more insight into your questions which
> I share interest in as well. I'm Native too though unaffiliated (special
> combo of Black Jewish and Native via Nueva Leon, Mexico, from tribes erased
> via pandemic in the colonial period) and my research is in
> Afrofuturism/Indigenous futurism. Would love to keep in touch with you
> regarding these issues.
>
>
>    - Jason Edward Lewis co-founded Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
>    (AbTeC) to research and create media content and technology for enabling
>    the participation of Indigenous communities in the building of our common
>    future. AbTeC is based at Concordia University, where Lewis is an Associate
>    Professor of Design and Computation Arts. His research studio, Obx Labs,
>    explores how digital technology amplifies and mutates our expressive
>    capabilities: great talk in general here:
>       - The Future Imaginary
>       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwkyaUALKJc&t=69s
>
>
>    - Laura Harjo, Associate Prof. at University of New Mexico in
>    Architecture and Urban planning may have some additional insights into this
>    topic. Her fantastic talk about indigenous futurism and Cree/Mvskoke here:
>       - Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity:
>       https://youtu.be/Bn7Vcpr4UxQ
>
>
>    - Also William Lempert Assistant Prof. Bowdoin College addresses
>    issues of production and respect with regard to First Peoples’ filmic and
>    VR indigenous future visions: useful site of resources and talk here as
>    well: https://williamlempert.com/
>       - Indigenous Cinemas and the Future:
>       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC-A08gvqIA
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 2:41 AM Geoff Lush <
> Geoffrey.Lush at parliament.govt.nz> wrote:
>
>> Hello all
>>
>> A broad request I know, but I thought I'd ask the group's collective
>> wisdom regarding any authoritative sources for Indigenous/First People's
>> perspectives, methodologies and treatments of digital data.
>>
>> This can relate to matters surrounding indigenous people's approaches to
>> the management, processing and application of online data, metadata,
>> information, social media etc. This could relate to intellectual property,
>> etc. but can also any philosophical approaches to the management of that
>> data/information that may also be involved.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any responses.
>>
>> Geoff Lush
>> New Zealand Parliamentary Library
>>
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