Connecting in the Gulf
This project explores the impact of digital inclusion challenges for low-income Indigenous families living on Mornington Island, a remote Aboriginal community in the Cape York Peninsula. It examines how low-income Aboriginal families use and access the internet, and how this impacts access to government and social services, education (particularly relevant as there is no high school on the island), e-health and e-commerce. We use Indigenous methodologies including yarning, and co-design workshops to inform policies, practices and programs focused on how low-income Indigenous families access and use digital technologies and the internet on Mornington Island.
DMRC research program
This project contributes to the research within the following DMRC research program:
Digital Inclusion & Participation
Project team
Investigators:
Professor Hurriyet Babacan, University of Queensland
Project Partners:
Torres Cape Indigenous Council Alliance
Mornington Shire
Project Funding:
auDA Foundation, QUT Ignite Grant Scheme 2021
