Woolaroo
Helped create Woolaroo, an open-source app that lets you point your phone camera at an object and see its name in an Indigenous language, Yugambeh among them.
Shaun grew up in Logan, on land his family has called home since long before Europeans arrived, hearing the old Yugambeh stories from his Elders.
His love of language started far from home. A school exchange to France introduced him to endangered languages like Galician, and when he came back, his grandmother and her sister urged him to learn their own. He learned Yugambeh from his grandmother, and has been passing it on ever since.
Since 2014 he has worked with South East Queensland's Commonwealth-endorsed language centres, and today he is the resident linguist at the South East Queensland Indigenous Language Centre.
Social media is the new campfire.
How Shaun describes the role of technology in keeping Indigenous languages alive for the next generation.