Supporting Self-Determined Indigenous Innovations: Rethinking the Digital Divide in Canada

Winter, Jasmin; Boudreau, Justine

doi:10.22215/timreview/1138

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“…The only concerning factor is the extent to which the community will have the capacity to upgrade its existing internet infrastructure to accommodate the increased data needs and to expand its existing school infrastructure to support a STEM-intensive curriculum. The proposal mirrors many of the comments made by Winter & Boudreau (2018) regarding best-practices for technological self-determination.…”

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2021

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The importance of inscribing maintenance and continuity — disruption mitigation — measures into Smart City technology has long been an overlooked topic in proposals and procurement processes, hampered in part by lack of legibility, advocacy, and community capacity for addressing innovation. The paper analyzed four select cases from the Top 20 finalists of Infrastructure Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge by asking the question, ‘what happens when innovators move on?’. Cases focused on the themes of intergenerational knowledge, food security, test-bed urbanism, and disaster response. Case specific examinations were synthesized into broader explorations regarding addressing underlying infrastructure, labour force availability & training, and the role of government and planners in these projects. Finally, future research recommendations discuss how to package site specific maintenance and continuity measures into Smart City projects such that communities are equipped to assume systems from the innovators. Key words: Smart City development; urban planning innovation; infrastructure systems disruption.

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2021

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“…Designing for transparency rather than embedding or assuming knowledge of computer science principles or privileging certain types of cultural practices will afford more flexible computing environments and is a critical consideration in designing for inclusive computing cultures. The “black box” is not unique to novice computational tools, but permeates much of our technological and computational worlds (O’Neil, 2016; Richards & Dignum, 2019; Winter & Boudreau, 2018).…”

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“…Findings revealed that, while the computational platforms engaged novice programmers in computational thinking practices, the deep design structure of the platforms supported some narrative structures better than others. Building on existing work around the epistemological tensions of technology (Winter & Boudreau, 2018), we discuss insights for the design of culturally responsive computational tools, especially in regard to the embedded cultural biases that may exist in their deep design structures.…”

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Computing for all?: Examining critical biases in computational tools for learning

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Brit J Educational Tech

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Given the increased need for broadening participation in computing, there must be a focus not just on providing culturally relevant content but also on building accessible and inclusive computational tools. Most efforts to design culturally responsive computational tools redesign surface features, often through making nominal changes to add cultural meaning, yet the deeper structural design remains largely intact. We take a critical perspective towards novice programming environments to elucidate how the underlying structure privileges particular epistemologies and cultures. In this paper, we examine how the cultural practice of storytelling is supported and/or inhibited within novice programming tools. We draw upon the experiences of 38 Native American youth, who worked in teams to create place‐based, interactive stories and games for their community. Findings offer insights to the embedded cultural biases that exist in the structures of computational tools. We discuss insights for how to address cultural biases and promote deeper integration of cultural practices in future designs of culturally responsive computational tools. What is already known about this topic? Culturally responsive computing connects computing content heritage and vernacular cultural practices. “Black boxing,” or lack of transparency in how it works, in computational tools makes it difficult for novices to enter computing cultures. Design tools are embedded with particular ways of being, knowing, valuing and doing. What this paper adds? Thirty‐eight novice learners’ computational designs were shaped by the ways in which a computational tool privileged particular knowledge systems. Storytelling, as a critical cultural practice, especially in Indigenous cultures, is heavily constrained by the design structure of computational tools. Computational tools are cultural artifacts with deeply embedded epistemological, ontological and axiological biases, which directly frame what learners can do with these tools. Implications for practice Collaborative, community‐based design processes could mitigate the cultural biases that persist in computational tools. Transparency in computation tools in critical to broadening participation in computing cultures. Culturally responsive design of computational tools at the structural level is required to build inclusive computing cultures.

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“…• Given that innovation always originates from learning processes and knowledge creation, it is crucial to understand what socio-technical arrangements facilitate the inclusion of forms of knowledge (e.g., indigenous or community knowledge) that are often considered "less legitimate" (or even subordinate) by scientific institutions but that can feed a flow of frugal, contextbased, and appropriate innovations (Winter & Boudreau, 2018). …”

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