Land carries networks of informatics that provide relational patterns for optimal knowledge transmission. This informs our pedagogies, communication protocols and governance structures, which we seek to translate into principles, frameworks and media that maximise both the sharing and protection of vital knowledge. Research translation and systemic knowledge transfer is not something the academy has done well to date, and we hope to remedy this. Information flows are essential to the functioning of land-based systems and are crucial to the realignment of contemporary human systems with the Law of the land.
‘Protocols for Non-Indigenous People Working with Indigenous Knowledge’ (Word doc) – written in 2024 by Indigenous scholars from IKSLabs at Algoma (Canada) and Deakin (Australia) Universities, in conjunction with Indigenous thinkers from AIME and the Indigenous Commons, under the auspices of the Indigenous Systems Knowledge Collective.