TRUST project aimed to strengthen research in the Global North and South by concentrating on interdisciplinary groups processing practices for digitalizing Indigenous cultural heritage (CH).

There is lack of holistic understanding and of workable solutions for how to navigate the legal and cultural tensions existing with the processes of digitalizing Indigenous CH in an ethical way.
Legal frameworks, like IPR, fall short of offering a regime that is respectful of ethical principles that are central for Indigenous Peoples, while maintaining the incentive purpose the IP system was built for in the first place.

To build TRUST we need to further develop the law so that it represents the interests of all parties involved in a balanced way.
To reach this goal, the project applied educational methods and research to enable integration of the views of marginalised groups in law and develops socially innovative tools of engagement to promote knowledge co-creation amongst the stakeholders.

Ballardini, R., & Cadillo Chandler, D. (In press). Indigenous Digital Cultural Heritage, Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Worldviews: Renewed Engagement as a Way Forward. In I.-A. Linkola–Aikio, P. Keskitalo, R. M. Ballardini, & M. Sarantou (Eds.), Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Promoting sustainable practices. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031769405

Ballardini, R., Kestilä, I., & Girardi, D. (2024). Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Reconciling Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and Indigenous Worldviews through Proactive Approaches and Engagement. In J. Hossain Bhuiyan, & M. R. Islam (Eds.), Business, Human Rights and Sustainable Development. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004530942

Ballardini, R. M., Uruena, R., Qureshi, A., Tuominen, I., & Girardi, D. (under review). Digital cultural heritage of minorities and Indigenous people: Towards a more participatory governance framework for decision-making. Culture Unbound: Special Issue on Digital Cultural Heritage, AI, and Authenticity.

Beaton, M. C., Burke, A., Keskitalo, P., & Turunen, T. (Toimittajat) (2024). Children’s Voice and Agency in Diverse Settings: International Research and Perspectives. Routledge. Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003360995

Helander, H., Keskitalo, P., & Turunen, T. (2023). Saami Language Online Education Outside the Saami Homeland: New Pathways to Social Justice . teoksessa M. Thrupp, P. Seppänen, J. Kauko, & S. Kosunen (Toimittajat), Finland’s Famous Education System : Unvarnished insights into Finnish schooling (pp. 303-318). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8241-5_19

Keskitalo, P., Helander, H., Lakkala, S., & Turunen, T. (2023). Saamen kielten opetus saamelaisten kotiseutualueen ulkopuolella: lähi- ja etäopetuksen kehittämisnäkökohtia. teoksessa S. Kontkanen, S. Piispa-Hakala, & S. Havu-Nuutinen (Toimittajat), Oppimisen muuntuvat maisemat (Sivut 53-83). Suomen kasvatustieteellinen seura.

Keskitalo, P., & Linkola-Aikio, I.-A. (2022). Sámi pedagogalaš dutkamuš ja dutkanetihkka [Sami pedagogy research and research ethics]. In Oahpahus, didaktihkka ja pedagogihkka Sámis / Teaching, Didactics, and Pedagogy in Sápmi, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp. 48-68. Dutkansearvvi dieđalaš áigečála, 6(2), 48-68.

Kestilä, I. (2022). “Sámi Cultural Heritage and Legal Frameworks: An Overview of Copyright and Archive Laws in Finland, Sweden and Norway” in AIDA, Arctic Indigenous Design Archives – árdna sámáidahttit duojáriid ja dáiddariid priváhta arkiivvaid (eds. Guttorm, Gunvor; Henriksen, Marit Breie; Kuhmunen, Anna Westman; Linkola-Aikio, Inker-Anni) Dieđut 1/2022. https://samas.brage.unit.no/samas-xmlui/handle/11250/3046569

 Talks, Presentations and Posters:

“I will now be more aware”: The Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Indigenous Artmaking in Living Cultural Heritage
Conference participation: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023 19th IFIP TC13 International Conference, August 28 – September 1, 2023. York, UK and (Online).
Presenter: Amna Qureshi, Melanie Sarantou and Sherrie Jones

TRUST: Promoting Sustainable Practices for Digitalising Indigenous Cultural Heritage – Global North and South Juxtaposed Project overview
DESIS Network. Café event at Arctic Design Lab. 21 June 2023 (Online).
Chair and Presenter: Amna Qureshi, University of Lapland.

Cultural Heritage Pedagogy and ethics in TRUST

DESIS Network. Café event at Arctic Design Lab. 21 June 2023 (Online).
Presenter: Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio, University of Lapland.

Towards an Open Government Data policy for Indigenous Peoples’ Digital Cultural Heritage: The implementation of the CARE Principles: an ethical issue

DESIS Network. Café event at Arctic Design Lab. 21 June 2023 (Online).

Presenter: Dino Girardi, University of Lapland.

 

Intellectual property rights and Indigenous (digital) cultural heritage

DESIS Network. Café event at Arctic Design Lab. 21 June 2023 (Online).
Presenter: Iiris Tuominen, University of Lapland.

 

Indigenous language’s role in indigenizing archives

Conference participation: The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference in Bådåddo/Buvvda/Bodø, Norwegian part of Sáme. 6th – 8th June 2024. Presenter:Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio, University of Lapland, TRUST-project on 7th June in the panel, Decolonizing Sámi archives through language-, artistic- and exploratory approaches, chaired by Gunvor Guttorm and Line Kalak, Sámi University of Applied Sciences

 

Girardi D., Ballardini R.M. & Linkola-Aikio I.-A., Towards an Open Government Data policy for Indigenous Peoples’ Digital Cultural Heritage, “International Conference on Sámi Research Data Governance 2023”  (Tromsø 21st–27th January 2023). Article on special issue forthcoming (see next slide).

Kestilä I., ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’? The Nexus of Self-Determination, Emancipation through Law and Sámi Cultural Heritage, “Critical Legal Conference 2022” (Tromsø 30st August–2nd September 2022).

Linkola-Aikio, I.-A.  Presentation and discussion of the TRUST project (Promoting Sustainable Practices for Digitalizing Indigenous Cultural Heritage – Global North and South Juxtaposed) and Sami youth in Finland seminar “Perspectives of digital citizenship in Indigenous education” contexts May 10th 2023 Faculty of Education, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi

Linkola-Aikio, I.-A., Archival Pedagogy with Indigenous Artists, Crafters and Designers presentation Feb 22nd, 2023 TRUST Promoting Sustainable Practices for Digitalizing Indigenous Cultural Heritage Global North and South Juxtaposed Community Information Event in Ceduna Emu Farm Training Complex

Linkola-Aikio, I.-A. TRUST- PromoTing Sustainable PRactices for Digitalizing IndigenoUS CulTural Heritage – Global North and South Juxtaposed.  Presentation in October 23rd, 2024. In webinar Pedagogalaš sámedutkan / Kasvatustieteellinen saamentutkimus/Educational Sámi research in Sami Languages’ Week. Faculty of Education, University of Lapland.

Linkola-Aikio, I.-A. Indigenous language role in indigenizing archives. Presentation, June 7th, 2024, In panel session: Decolonizing Sámi archives through language-, artistic- and exploratory approaches:Overview. In NAISA 2024 Conference Bådåddjo/Buvdda/Bodø. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Thirteenth Annual Conference. (June 6th -8th, 2024). https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/activities/indigenous-language-role-in-indigenizing-archives

Linkola-Aikio, I.-A. Trust -PromoTing Sustainable PRactices for Digitalizing IndigenoUS CulTural Heritage – Global North and South Juxtaposed: Indigenous Cultural Heritage, Learning, Ethics. Presentation June 21, 2023 in DESIS network café. Project dissemination until now to a wider audience. Faculty of Art and Design Ulapland.

Linkola-Aikio, I.-A. TRUST-PromoTing Sustainable PRactices for Digitalizing IndigenoUS CulTural Heritage – Global North and South Juxtaposed: Faculty of Education. Presentation for the Peruvian delegation in the context of INCLUSION (May 9th, 2023). University of Lapland, Faculty of Law.

Linkola-Aikio, I.-A. About the book: Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage. Presentation in webinar Book Launch of Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Promoting Sustainable Practices. November 28th, 2024. Organised by TRUST-project, University of Lapland.

Qureshi. A., Use of social media to market artistic work. Presentation Feb 22nd, 2023 TRUST Promoting Sustainable Practices for Digitalizing Indigenous Cultural Heritage Global North and South Juxtaposed Community Information Event in Ceduna Emu Farm Training Complex

Sarantou, M. & Sarantou, E. (2024, November). AI Codesign and Creativity: Legal and Ethical Considerations. IAS-FRIS Symposium, Kyushu University, Fukuoka.

Sarantou, M., Qureshi, A., Jones, S. (2024). Limited stories: Social Design potentials within Indigenous contexts. Proceedings of Asia Design and Innovation Conference 5–6 December, 2024, Shanghai, Tongji University, China.

Felt Art Project

Arts Ceduna, SA (2024, January 1)

Stories from the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts & Culture Centre, South Australia

Arts Ceduna, SA (2023, September 11)

Project management

TRUST was a collaborative project between Faculty of Law, Faculty of Art & Design, and Faculty of Education of University of Lapland. The project was funded by University of Lapland Strategic Funding.