About NGNY

Who we are

At NGNY we want to make an impact on our community. We coined a term Indigenous Digital Economy which aims to identify and build on the ways in which technology can positively impact on Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander culture and community sustainability. For us this is a journey of how technology can play a pivotal role in preserving culture and using these tools to teach culture across Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities as well as non-Indigenous communities nationally and internationally.
As a business, we are impacting Indigenous Digital Economy through educational and employment opportunities and through the growth of an online business marketplace that offers a pathway into economic participation for Indigenous owned and operated businesses.

Indigenous Digital Economy & Impact

NGNY is a 100% Aboriginal owned and operated end-to-end digital agency founded in 2014 by Liam Ridgeway and John Saulo.

THE NGNY ECOSYSTEM

THE GROUP

NGNY operates as part of a growing ecosystem of aligned ventures that support our broader mission — to build a strong, culturally grounded Indigenous digital economy. Through strategic design, technology infrastructure, and product innovation, each of these entities extends our impact and deepens our ability to deliver meaningful, community-led outcomes.

THE BRANDS

NGAKKAN NYAAGU

Creative Strategy, Design & Digital Delivery

NGNY is a First Nations-led design and digital agency focused on culturally grounded communication, creative strategy, and digital execution. We work at the intersection of culture, code, and community — delivering design solutions that honour story, strengthen identity, and drive systemic change.

Secure, Managed Hosting with Personalised Support

NGNY Hosting provides reliable, Australianbased website hosting solutions with a strong
focus on digital sovereignty and responsive, human-centred support. We partner with First Nations organisations and community-focused clients to keep their websites safe, accessible, and in trusted hands.

Digital Strategy, Co-Design & Community-Centred Design

Buledya partners with communities and organisations to design better systems and services. Grounded in lived experience and cultural ways of working, we adapt human-centred methods to deliver meaningful, inclusive change.

Wearable Cultural Communication

First Nations Apparel brings design to life through high-quality, ethically sourced branded merchandise — including apparel, signage, and promotional items. We specialise in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designs, ensuring cultural integrity while creating meaningful, wearable expressions of identity and message.

WHY NGNY

CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE

We are experienced in working with Indigenous specific audiences.
We pride ourselves on our ability to engage with and design solutions with Our community in-mind.

INDIGENOUS NETWORKS

We are actively engaged in seeking out and working with other Indigenous businesses and creatives. We understand the importance of enhancing the Indigenous supply chain and are in a privileged position to actively push for Indigenous talent to be integrated into projects.

IMPACT DRIVEN OUTCOMES

Every project NGNY delivers contributes to a stronger, self-determined Indigenous digital ecosystem. We embed culturally informed design practices that honour story, place, and language — while supporting pathways for First Nations creatives and collaborators. Through our extended ecosystem, we activate culture in ways that are visible, accessible, and enduring.

OUR APPROACH

OUR PHILOSOPHY

We follow a customer-centric approach which allows us to be agile throughout the design and build process to allow for changing requirements of our clients through early continuous delivery. This approach is driven around transparency, connection and collaboration related to short sprints and an ongoing loop of development and feedback.

OUR IMPACT

We value and place significant importance on our involvement and influence in projects that have a positive impact across Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities and their respective socioeconomic ecosystems.

We have a priority to seek and be engaged in projects that impact the preservation and enhancement of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander culture and which support sustainable and long term impact and growth of culture, education, housing, health and self-determination.