Many Indigenous groups around the world are struggling to come to terms with the issues an online environment poses to the presentation of the Indigenous past and cultural present.
In the IPinCH-supported case study, “The Ngaut Ngaut Interpretive Project: Providing Culturally Sustainable Online Interpretive Content to the Public,” the Mannum Aboriginal Community Association Inc. (MACAI), in collaboration with Dr. Amy Roberts, addressed this issue. They created an online booklet with interpretive information about the cultural complex known as Ngaut Ngaut (Devon Downs) in South Australia.
Ngaut Ngaut: An Interpretive Guide was published in 2012 by MACAI and IPinCH, and includes expressions of community perceptions of tangible and intangible aspects and values of this significant cultural landscape.
In addition to its availability on the IPinCH website, the project team decided that the interpretive guide should also be hosted on the website for Australia’s Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources for three reasons:
- To ensure the widest possible circulation of the information;
- To reduce the burden of the costs associated with hosting and updating for MACAI, and most importantly;
- To put MACAI’s presence into a government forum.
