Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu National Park
Most of the planet’s vital ecosystems are managed on lands owned by Indigenous peoples. Indigenous people face many challenges in managing these lands, including rapidly growing threats causing species extinctions and ecosystem losses. In response, many Indigenous groups are looking for ethical ways...
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| author | Catherine J Robinson Jennifer Mairi Macdonald Justin Perry Na-gangila Bangalang Alfred Nayinggul Jonathan Nadji Anita Nayinggul Simon Dempsey Sean Nadji Serena McCartney Annie Taylor Fred Hunter Kadeem May Dennis Cooper Feach Moyle Alice Drummond Christian Borovac Steven van Bodegraven Mat Gilfedder Samantha Setterfield Michael M Douglas |
| author_facet | Catherine J Robinson Jennifer Mairi Macdonald Justin Perry Na-gangila Bangalang Alfred Nayinggul Jonathan Nadji Anita Nayinggul Simon Dempsey Sean Nadji Serena McCartney Annie Taylor Fred Hunter Kadeem May Dennis Cooper Feach Moyle Alice Drummond Christian Borovac Steven van Bodegraven Mat Gilfedder Samantha Setterfield Michael M Douglas |
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| description | Most of the planet’s vital ecosystems are managed on lands owned by Indigenous peoples. Indigenous people face many challenges in managing these lands, including rapidly growing threats causing species extinctions and ecosystem losses. In response, many Indigenous groups are looking for ethical ways to use digital technology and data analytical tools to support their existing knowledge practices to solve complex environmental management problems. We draw on an action co-research project to show how a range of knowledge coproduction mechanisms were developed and applied to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence (AI), and technical sources to monitor the health of Nardab, a culturally significant and Ramsar-listed wetland in Australia's World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park. The coproduction mechanisms included: holistic assessments of the health of indicators; a dynamic and creative decision-support tool to adaptively manage a complex system; ongoing monitoring and testing of knowledge used for collaborative action; and Indigenous-led governance of research activities and impact at local and regional scales. It was important for local Bininj traditional owners to determine where and how multiple sources of evidence could or should be used and applied to direct and assess on-the-ground actions as part of this collaborative and cross-cultural knowledge sharing and coproduction process. At Nardab, this required negotiating the evidence from qualitative Indigenous-led assessments of significant sites and quantitative ecological information collected and analyzed from cameras and drone surveys. The coproduction mechanisms developed provided a practical and ethical means of empowering different sources of knowledge for adaptive decision making while respecting and protecting differences in how knowledge is generated, interpreted, and applied. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0acee152af434e978fd977e17d485abd2023-01-02T13:45:38ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872022-12-012743610.5751/ES-13747-27043613747Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu National ParkCatherine J Robinson0Jennifer Mairi Macdonald1Justin Perry2Na-gangila Bangalang3Alfred Nayinggul4Jonathan Nadji5Anita Nayinggul6Simon Dempsey7Sean Nadji8Serena McCartney9Annie Taylor10Fred Hunter11Kadeem May12Dennis Cooper13Feach Moyle14Alice Drummond15Christian Borovac16Steven van Bodegraven17Mat Gilfedder18Samantha Setterfield19Michael M Douglas20Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Dutton Park, AustraliaNorthern Institute, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, AustraliaNorth Australia Indigenous Land and Sea Management AllianceBininj Traditional Owner for NardabBininj Traditional Owner for NardabBininj Traditional Owner for NardabBininj Traditional Owner for NardabBininj Traditional Owner for NardabBininj Traditional Owner for NardabBininj Traditional Owner for NardabKakadu National Park, Northern Territory, AustraliaKakadu National Park, Northern Territory, AustraliaKakadu National ParkNorthern Land Council, Northern Territory, AustraliaKakadu National Park, Northern Territory, AustraliaDiscoverEI, Melbourne, AustraliaDiscoverEI, Melbourne, AustraliaMicrosoftCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Dutton Park, AustraliaThe University of Western Australia, Perth, AustraliaThe University of Western Australia, Perth, AustraliaMost of the planet’s vital ecosystems are managed on lands owned by Indigenous peoples. Indigenous people face many challenges in managing these lands, including rapidly growing threats causing species extinctions and ecosystem losses. In response, many Indigenous groups are looking for ethical ways to use digital technology and data analytical tools to support their existing knowledge practices to solve complex environmental management problems. We draw on an action co-research project to show how a range of knowledge coproduction mechanisms were developed and applied to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence (AI), and technical sources to monitor the health of Nardab, a culturally significant and Ramsar-listed wetland in Australia's World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park. The coproduction mechanisms included: holistic assessments of the health of indicators; a dynamic and creative decision-support tool to adaptively manage a complex system; ongoing monitoring and testing of knowledge used for collaborative action; and Indigenous-led governance of research activities and impact at local and regional scales. It was important for local Bininj traditional owners to determine where and how multiple sources of evidence could or should be used and applied to direct and assess on-the-ground actions as part of this collaborative and cross-cultural knowledge sharing and coproduction process. At Nardab, this required negotiating the evidence from qualitative Indigenous-led assessments of significant sites and quantitative ecological information collected and analyzed from cameras and drone surveys. The coproduction mechanisms developed provided a practical and ethical means of empowering different sources of knowledge for adaptive decision making while respecting and protecting differences in how knowledge is generated, interpreted, and applied.https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss4/art36adaptive comanagementcodesigncoproductiondigital decision-support toolsethical artificial intelligencekakadu national parkwetlands |
| spellingShingle | Catherine J Robinson Jennifer Mairi Macdonald Justin Perry Na-gangila Bangalang Alfred Nayinggul Jonathan Nadji Anita Nayinggul Simon Dempsey Sean Nadji Serena McCartney Annie Taylor Fred Hunter Kadeem May Dennis Cooper Feach Moyle Alice Drummond Christian Borovac Steven van Bodegraven Mat Gilfedder Samantha Setterfield Michael M Douglas Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu National Park Ecology and Society adaptive comanagement codesign coproduction digital decision-support tools ethical artificial intelligence kakadu national park wetlands |
| title | Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu National Park |
| title_full | Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu National Park |
| title_fullStr | Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu National Park |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu National Park |
| title_short | Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu National Park |
| title_sort | coproduction mechanisms to weave indigenous knowledge artificial intelligence and technical data to enable indigenous led adaptive decision making lessons from australia s joint managed kakadu national park |
| topic | adaptive comanagement codesign coproduction digital decision-support tools ethical artificial intelligence kakadu national park wetlands |
| url | https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss4/art36 |
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