Fellows mentioned in this story: Kamuela Enos

From University of Hawai‘i News:

Approximately 250 participants gathered to explore Indigenous innovation and knowledge at the University of Hawaiʻi Innovation Conference held November 8 at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center.

The conference, “A Catalyst for Change: Indigenous Innovation at UH,” brought together experts and community members to identify solutions in key areas including Indigenous data visualization tools, traditional healing practices, knowledge systems integration and community partnership development.

“Indigenous action means continuity and it speaks to a time when human society had deep ties to their landscape and family units,” said Kamuela Enos, UH Office of Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation (OIKI) director and one of the conference’s keynote speakers. “The technologies, their education and all the different systems that they designed were optimized for how people live in place indefinitely.”

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