|Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2007, 23(1),
48-67. Members of the Kunibídji community are the traditional
owners of the lands and seas around Maningrida, a remote
community in Northern Australia. Most of the 200 members of the
Kunibídji Community speak Ndjébbana as their first language.
This study reports on the complexities of transforming
technology to provide Kunibídji children with access to digital
texts at home. The printed Ndjébbana texts that were kept at
school were transformed to Ndjébbana talking books displayed on
touch screen computers in the children's homes. Some results of
the children's interaction around these touch screens are
presented as well as some quantitative results of the computer
viewing in the homes. The processes of rejecting technological
determinism, upholding linguistic human rights of speakers of
minority languages and viewing technology as practice rather
than a set of artefacts are discussed in this paper. The results
of this study hightlight the need for s