This article considers how Indigenous peoples in Central Australia share and keep digital records of events and cultural knowledge in a period of rapid technological change. To date, research has focused upon the development of digital archives and platforms that reflect Indigenous epistemologies and incorporation of protocols governing access to information. Yet there is scant research on how individuals with little access to such media share and hold—or not, as the case may be—digital cultural information. After surveying current enabling infrastructures in Central Australia, we examine how materials are held and shared when people do not have easy access to databases and the Internet. We analyze examples of practices of sharing materials to draw out issues that arise in managing storage and circulation of cultural records via Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drives, mobile phones, and other devices. We consider how the affordances of various platforms support, extend, and/or challenge Indigenous socialities and ontologies.

本文考虑了在快速的技术变革时期，澳大利亚中部的土著居民如何共享和保存事件和文化知识的数字记录。迄今为止，研究已集中于反映土著认识论的数字档案和平台的开发，并纳入了管理信息访问的协议。然而，很少有关于很少接触此类媒体的个人如何共享和持有（或视情况而定）数字文化信息的研究。在调查了澳大利亚中部当前启用的基础设施之后，我们研究了当人们无法轻松访问数据库和Internet时如何持有和共享资料。我们分析了共享资料的做法示例，以找出在通过通用串行总线（USB）闪存驱动器，移动电话和其他设备管理文化记录的存储和流通时出现的问题。我们考虑各种平台的收费如何支持，扩展和/或挑战土著社会和本体。