The Indigitization Futures Forum, which was held in June 2016, brought together community-based information, academics, and a wider community of specialists. This emerging network supports context-appropriate information practices within Indigenous communities.

Academic ways of managing information are firmly rooted in Western knowledge systems, which often conflict with Indigenous ways of knowing. Through the development of digitization grants and workshops, the Indigitization program has helped Indigenous communities archive their media in relevant and inventive ways. To continue to thrive, the program requires community. The Forum was vital in gathering these responses. 

As communities are working to bring their analogue media into the digital realm, their insights and questions inform the development of practices that meet the needs of Indigenous communities. Those working in the academic context do not have ready-made solutions for these obstacles. It is only by working together, sharing ideas, and learning from false starts and successes that new, “disruptive” community-based information practices can be developed. At the Futures Forum, the Indigitization program and community members investigated how information management is transformed in this context.