Mukurtu: Keeping Indigenous digital archives safe

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.

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