Just recently there has been a new website launched by Matthew Dyck, he’s Metis and the crater for his website called https://openinagoodway.com/OpeningBuilder
It’s an A-I tool that helps people when asked to open meetings classes or a community event.
It helps cerate a few words about the land, about Indigenous people, and Land acknowledgements.
CFNR News spoke with Matthew about why he wanted to launch the website.
During any meeting that I’ve been in, especially doing anything in regards to the indigenous work that I’ve been involved with for the last decade, there’s always a call at the beginning of a meeting for someone to open us in a good way. And around that time, the room gets very quiet. You know, most people kind of feel awkward.
They don’t really know what to do. And if there is, an indigenous person in the room. They often take on the role and they do an opening. They’ll do an acknowledgement and openness in a good way. For me, it was just kind of thinking like, how could I make this something that’s accessible to everyone so that our First Nations and indigenous people don’t feel that they have to do the heavy lifting all the time.- Dyck.
Matthew also shared what the website can and cannot do.
There are some limitations, but, it can’t do it for you. You, yourself have to actually deliver the message and, do the work. But, right now we’re kind of limited to the territories that we are currently providing, coverage for. So right now we’ve got Canada, we are about to start, uploading information for Native Americans throughout the United States. – Dyck
Dyck also share a bit more of the website.
It literally helps them take some by the hand and gives them a framework to, to go by. In fact, one of the applications is you can start right from the very beginning of how do all the steps look, and you can build yourself an opening and a closing through the app. – Dyck
Despite the launch of the website some institutes and museums have had some push back on adopting it because the use of A-I, but Matthew also shared that this is a small helper, not an authority, does not replace Elders, or Knowledge Keepers.
