Watch FIFA World Cup 2026™

LIVE, FREE and EXCLUSIVE

Mukurtu: Keeping Indigenous digital archives safe

PM Scott Morrison is pledging more funding for mental health services

Mukurtu is about empowering Indigenous people to take back ownership of their history Source: Getty Images

Mukurtu (pronounced MOOK-oo-too) is an online system that aims to help Indigenous communities conserve and curate stories, videos, photographs, songs, word lists and other digital archives. It's a way of returning ownership of history to the traditional custodians of the land. Mukurtu is already being used by Native American communities to store and preserve digital archives, and Kirsten Thorpe, a senior researcher at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at UTS, is involved in making Mukurtu more widely accessible in Australia.


Published

Updated

By Sofija Petrovic

Source: SBS



Share this with family and friends


Mukurtu (pronounced MOOK-oo-too) is an online system that aims to help Indigenous communities conserve and curate stories, videos, photographs, songs, word lists and other digital archives. It's a way of returning ownership of history to the traditional custodians of the land. Mukurtu is already being used by Native American communities to store and preserve digital archives, and Kirsten Thorpe, a senior researcher at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at UTS, is involved in making Mukurtu more widely accessible in Australia.



Latest podcast episodes

Follow SBS Serbian

Download our apps

Listen to our podcasts

Get the latest with our exclusive in-language podcasts on your favourite podcast apps.

Watch on SBS

Serbian News

Watch now