Tech Anishinaabe Medicine Wheel: Decolonial Design Principles within Digital Technologies through the Development of the Indigenous Friends Platform

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dc.contributor.advisorCrow, Barbara A.
dc.contributor.authorMayoral Banos, Alejandro
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-15T15:55:36Z
dc.date.available2021-11-15T15:55:36Z
dc.date.copyright2021-08
dc.date.issued2021-11-15
dc.date.updated2021-11-15T15:55:36Z
dc.degree.disciplineCommunication & Culture, Joint Program with Ryerson University
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractDigital technologies are not only colonial in their practices, but they are colonially created and designed. Despite the implementation of worldwide responses to counteract the effects of digital coloniality, there is still an absence of decolonial and Indigenous ways of doing digital technologies. The objective of this dissertation, therefore, is to formulate design principles of decoloniality within digital technologies through the story of the development of the Indigenous Friends Platform (IFP) in the context of Indigenous urban youth at York University in Tkaronto, Canada. The storytelling of the Indigenous Friends Platform describes how in the context of Indigenous youth in Tkaronto, the decolonial design of an Indigenous mobile application needed to be explored through a process of doing through thinking, thinking through doing. In that process of development and reflection, the mobile application was conceived as a technical being who has a Spirit and founded a tech-community: the Indigenous Friends Association. This technical being was developed in four stages that help to differentiate this space from other mainstream hegemonic digital applications and to sustain this technological solution in the long term. These four transdisciplinary stages frame the Tech Anishinaabe Medicine Wheel that consists of four design principles of decoloniality within digital technologies: (1) Waabinong (East) Digital Software Braid; (2) Zhaawanong (South) Embodiment of Indigeneity; (3) Epangishmok (West) Decolonial Infrastructure; and (4) Kiiwedinong (North) Indigenous Data Sovereignty. These four design principles foster the theoretical reflections of decoloniality and digital technologies through the differentiation of digital decoloniality and decolonial computing. Moreover, these principles provide digital activists and Indigenous communities several insights into how digital technologies can be decolonially implemented and reimagined at the community level.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38793
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectInformation technology
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous
dc.subject.keywordsdecolonization
dc.subject.keywordsdecoloniality
dc.subject.keywordsdigital
dc.subject.keywordsdecolonial computing
dc.subject.keywordsdigital decoloniality
dc.subject.keywordsAnishinaabe Medicine Wheel
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous Friends Platform
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous Friends
dc.subject.keywordsdigital colonization
dc.subject.keywordsdigital coloniality
dc.subject.keywordsdata extractivism
dc.subject.keywordsdecentralized infrastructure
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous software
dc.subject.keywordssoftware
dc.subject.keywordsembodiment
dc.subject.keywordsindigeneity
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous research
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous methodology
dc.subject.keywordsways of doing
dc.subject.keywordsways of knowing
dc.subject.keywordsland
dc.titleTech Anishinaabe Medicine Wheel: Decolonial Design Principles within Digital Technologies through the Development of the Indigenous Friends Platform
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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