Welcome to this month’s issue of ECOS.
July was a huge month for celebrating Indigenous-led science at CSIRO. This started with NAIDOC Week, running from 3 to 10 July, with the theme Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
This month, we celebrated two years since the release of Our Knowledge our Way (OKOW). The trailblazing, collaborative guidelines provide best-practice approaches to empowering Indigenous people to lead and partner in land and sea management.
The OKOW guidelines were a key tool in the project development of State of the Environment 2021 (SOE), a landmark report released last week. This month’s ECOS edition features a series of SOE articles. While the SOE report findings are sobering, it’s important to recognise some key positive developments --namely, the Indigenous-led co-design of the report and prioritisation of Indigenous knowledge, alongside Western science.
Our researchers put the OKOW co-design principles into practice while on Country, working with Indigenous peoples to find responsible ways to use digital technology to solve complex environmental challenges.
We hope you enjoy this issue.