My business partner and I are working with Indigenous communities on technology projects but we realize we're still operating from extraction mindset even with good intentions. We keep promising reciprocity but defaulting to transactional relationships and I can see our partners pulling back and we don't know how to repair this pattern.
More people experience this than they realize.
Reciprocal relationship requires dismantling transactional reflexes so deeply embedded that they operate beneath conscious intention.
“Where Are You with Indigenous technology values?”
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