Editorial for the Special Section on Indigenous Use of Information and Communication Technologies: Information Systems and the Practice of Indigenous Self-determination

Self-determination is a social, political and cultural right that belongs equally to all peoples. The three articles in this special section show how Information Systems’ practice may limit this right on the one hand, or make significant contributions to its development, on the other. The ways in which information is collected and curated to diminish the stories that people wish to tell about themselves, or to create opportunities, is the articles’ common theme. They consider self-determination beyond its more usual study as a body of legal and political rights to show its deep cultural significance and to draw out Information Systems’ research and practice as inevitably cultural activities. A and choose how these are presented beyond citizenry an expression of the to self-determination. It and ethical and for The section each of these questions in specific context inter alia, contributing to the broader scholarship of self-determination. In section that have the through that demean Indigenous people and cultures in the of their stories, in the ways that their sacred artefacts are and and in the ways they the repatriation of these artefacts. In many questions of repatriation human parts collected, contravention of norms, and objects of do colonial