In Peppimenarti, there is no library, museum, or
higher education facility. A lack of infrastructure
has greatly limited intergenerational knowledge
transfer processes that take advantage of twenty
first century communication technologies and
platforms. The speed of technological growth and
the lack of a local infrastructure has left
Ngan’gikurunggurr and Ngan’gityemerri people
with little access to digital heritage resources.
In partnership with the Durrmu Art centre, we
have developed a digital heritage
program in Peppimenarti. To promote cultural maintenance,
leaders named the Digital archive and Publishing
Program Nimbi.
Nimbi features a large amount of digital material
documenting a local history of cultural, economic
and development. An archive of community
projects and economic enterprises, it is also a
knowledge base documenting how different
leaders seeked the protection and promotion of
cultural practices, through the transmission of
intergenerational knowledge, and the
development of learning programs in the arts.
Robert Lazarus 