Adopted Mukurtu
Warumungu Community, Tennant Creek
The Warumungu community of Tennant Creek in Australia's Northern Territory is where Mukurtu began: the platform grew out of a long collaboration between the community and researcher Kimberly Christen, and 'Mukurtu' is itself a Warumungu word meaning 'dilly bag' — a safe keeping place for sacred materials. The community needed a system that could enforce cultural protocols over who may view or hear sensitive materials. That work catalysed the open-source Mukurtu CMS now used by Indigenous communities worldwide. The founding, protocol-driven adoption of open-source Indigenous archival software.
Original source
Mukurtu CMS — origins with the Warumungu community
WSU / Mukurtu Australia Hub
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