Integrating Indigenous Priorities in Spatially Enabled Planning of the Indigenous Estate: Initial Findings
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Plenary 1
| Thursday, July 24, 2025 |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM |
Overview
Jonah Lafferty, Josh Mamarika and Danelle Bara, Anindilyakwa Land Council
Speaker
Danelle Bara
Community Data Officer
Anindilyakwa Land Council
Integrating Indigenous Priorities in Spatially Enabled Planning of the Indigenous Estate: Initial Findings
Presentation Overview
Modern-day natural resource managers frequently rely upon Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to manage resources, land and communities. However, remote Indigenous community-controlled organisations are at a distinct disadvantage when attempting to access GIS technologies as compared to their non-remote and non-Indigenous counterparts. A key issue for Indigenous land managers is the difficulty in representing Indigenous priorities for digitally representing landscapes in GIS tools which were developed for western land management and planning.
Anindilyakwa Land Council (ALC) are currently embarking upon research and development alongside Industry, Government and Acidemia which addresses this difficult problem. This multi-year project is designed for
enabling the ALC to establish their community-led GIS program, whilst also empowering private industry and government to explore best practices for supporting such initiatives, and for these processes to be documented to produce a model for remote Indigenous community up-take of GIS.
As the project nears completion, the Traditional Owners from the Anindilyakwa Land Council, alongside ALC staff, are excited to share their initial findings and outcomes of the project, and present on the final research and development (R&D) phases of the project.
Initial findings and final project R&D include the creation of cultural story maps and modelling coastal erosion using Airborne LiDAR data with graduate students at the Australian National University, experimenting with the notion of a digital twin of Country, and learnings about building meaningful partnerships with Government, Industry and Academia.
Anindilyakwa Land Council (ALC) are currently embarking upon research and development alongside Industry, Government and Acidemia which addresses this difficult problem. This multi-year project is designed for
enabling the ALC to establish their community-led GIS program, whilst also empowering private industry and government to explore best practices for supporting such initiatives, and for these processes to be documented to produce a model for remote Indigenous community up-take of GIS.
As the project nears completion, the Traditional Owners from the Anindilyakwa Land Council, alongside ALC staff, are excited to share their initial findings and outcomes of the project, and present on the final research and development (R&D) phases of the project.
Initial findings and final project R&D include the creation of cultural story maps and modelling coastal erosion using Airborne LiDAR data with graduate students at the Australian National University, experimenting with the notion of a digital twin of Country, and learnings about building meaningful partnerships with Government, Industry and Academia.
Biography
Biography not provided.
Josh Mamarika
ALC Board Member
Anindilyakwa Land Council
Integrating Indigenous Priorities in Spatially Enabled Planning of the Indigenous Estate: Initial Findings
Presentation Overview
Modern-day natural resource managers frequently rely upon Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to manage resources, land and communities. However, remote Indigenous community-controlled organisations are at a distinct disadvantage when attempting to access GIS technologies as compared to their non-remote and non-Indigenous counterparts. A key issue for Indigenous land managers is the difficulty in representing Indigenous priorities for digitally representing landscapes in GIS tools which were developed for western land management and planning.
Anindilyakwa Land Council (ALC) are currently embarking upon research and development alongside Industry, Government and Acidemia which addresses this difficult problem. This multi-year project is designed for
enabling the ALC to establish their community-led GIS program, whilst also empowering private industry and government to explore best practices for supporting such initiatives, and for these processes to be documented to produce a model for remote Indigenous community up-take of GIS.
As the project nears completion, the Traditional Owners from the Anindilyakwa Land Council, alongside ALC staff, are excited to share their initial findings and outcomes of the project, and present on the final research and development (R&D) phases of the project.
Initial findings and final project R&D include the creation of cultural story maps and modelling coastal erosion using Airborne LiDAR data with graduate students at the Australian National University, experimenting with the notion of a digital twin of Country, and learnings about building meaningful partnerships with Government, Industry and Academia.
Anindilyakwa Land Council (ALC) are currently embarking upon research and development alongside Industry, Government and Acidemia which addresses this difficult problem. This multi-year project is designed for
enabling the ALC to establish their community-led GIS program, whilst also empowering private industry and government to explore best practices for supporting such initiatives, and for these processes to be documented to produce a model for remote Indigenous community up-take of GIS.
As the project nears completion, the Traditional Owners from the Anindilyakwa Land Council, alongside ALC staff, are excited to share their initial findings and outcomes of the project, and present on the final research and development (R&D) phases of the project.
Initial findings and final project R&D include the creation of cultural story maps and modelling coastal erosion using Airborne LiDAR data with graduate students at the Australian National University, experimenting with the notion of a digital twin of Country, and learnings about building meaningful partnerships with Government, Industry and Academia.
Biography
Josh Mamarika is a Traditional Owner of the Groote Archipelago and a board member of the Anindilyakwa Land Council. Josh was instrumental in establishing the ALC's Data Unit at the beginning of 2023 and has been working for the program since its inception. He also has previous experience working as a Ranger, in the Language Centre, and in the Sport and Rec on Groote Island.
Jonah Lafferty
Data Unit Coordinator
Anindilyakwa Land Council
Integrating Indigenous Priorities in Spatially Enabled Planning of the Indigenous Estate: Initial Findings
Presentation Overview
Modern-day natural resource managers frequently rely upon Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to manage resources, land and communities. However, remote Indigenous community-controlled organisations are at a distinct disadvantage when attempting to access GIS technologies as compared to their non-remote and non-Indigenous counterparts. A key issue for Indigenous land managers is the difficulty in representing Indigenous priorities for digitally representing landscapes in GIS tools which were developed for western land management and planning.
Anindilyakwa Land Council (ALC) are currently embarking upon research and development alongside Industry, Government and Acidemia which addresses this difficult problem. This multi-year project is designed for
enabling the ALC to establish their community-led GIS program, whilst also empowering private industry and government to explore best practices for supporting such initiatives, and for these processes to be documented to produce a model for remote Indigenous community up-take of GIS.
As the project nears completion, the Traditional Owners from the Anindilyakwa Land Council, alongside ALC staff, are excited to share their initial findings and outcomes of the project, and present on the final research and development (R&D) phases of the project.
Initial findings and final project R&D include the creation of cultural story maps and modelling coastal erosion using Airborne LiDAR data with graduate students at the Australian National University, experimenting with the notion of a digital twin of Country, and learnings about building meaningful partnerships with Government, Industry and Academia.
Anindilyakwa Land Council (ALC) are currently embarking upon research and development alongside Industry, Government and Acidemia which addresses this difficult problem. This multi-year project is designed for
enabling the ALC to establish their community-led GIS program, whilst also empowering private industry and government to explore best practices for supporting such initiatives, and for these processes to be documented to produce a model for remote Indigenous community up-take of GIS.
As the project nears completion, the Traditional Owners from the Anindilyakwa Land Council, alongside ALC staff, are excited to share their initial findings and outcomes of the project, and present on the final research and development (R&D) phases of the project.
Initial findings and final project R&D include the creation of cultural story maps and modelling coastal erosion using Airborne LiDAR data with graduate students at the Australian National University, experimenting with the notion of a digital twin of Country, and learnings about building meaningful partnerships with Government, Industry and Academia.
Biography
Biography not provided
