Periagoge
Scenario

How digitization threatens indigenous knowledge systems

The university wants to digitize our tribe's plant knowledge but something feels wrong about putting sacred information in a database.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The conversion of relational, contextual wisdom into extractable data fundamentally alters its nature and risks commodification.

Your guide for this
Nas
Nas works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous science and ecological knowledge?”

Peri

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