{"id":1276,"date":"2012-12-14T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T04:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:44","slug":"blackfella-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/1276","title":{"rendered":"Blackfella Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thewire.org.au\/%5CStoryImages%5CNCIE.jpg\" title=\"NCIE logo\" class=\"g2image_float_right\" width=\"200\" \/>Last month, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncie.org.au\/index.php\/about\/who-are-we.html\" title=\"the NCIE website\" target=\"_blank\">National Centre for Indigenous Excellence<\/a> launched its own social networking site. The officially named Community of Excellence is known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/1712581\/Blackfella-Facebook-for-Indigenous-youth\" title=\"SBS report\" target=\"_blank\">Black Fella Facebook<\/a> by its users. Targeted exclusively at young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, the site allows youths to share their goals and aspirations and to indicate their support for each other&#8217;s posts using a &#8216;Respect&#8217; button. I really like that the inspiration came from the community and that the Aboriginal youth were consulted in the design process. Who else could design a system to meet the community needs?<\/p>\n<p>I am also impressed to learn that a large non-indigenous organisation like Telstra (through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telstrafoundation.com\/dir148\/tfweb.nsf\/abouttelstrafoundation\/abouttelstrafoundation?OpenDocument&#038;menu=1\" title=\"organisation overview\" target=\"_blank\">Telstra Foundation<\/a>) would commit their resources to developing such a complex tool without, as far as I can tell, trying to influence the design.<\/p>\n<p>I question the NCIE&#8217;s statement that this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncie.org.au\/index.php\/ncie-in-the-news\/322-indigenous-social-network.html\" title=\"Community of Excellence launch\" target=\"_blank\">new era of digital inclusion<\/a>, because non-indigenous Australians like me are not invited to join, but this is not a complaint. The service is not designed for me. One day, if it works well, there may be similar respect-based, goal-oriented tools made available for all Australians, but for now, I respect that black fellas want a facebook of their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence launched its own social networking site. The officially named Community of Excellence is known as Black Fella Facebook by its users. Targeted exclusively at young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, the site allows youths to share their goals and aspirations and to indicate their support for each&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/1276\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blackfella Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[47,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}