Indigenous Data Governance & Universities Communiqué

To:

All Universities¹ and funders involved in creating, collecting, accessing, analysing, interpreting, managing, disseminating, and reusing data and data infrastructure.

Universities create, use, and hold enormous amounts of Indigenous data. These data range from old historical records to contemporary large datasets, including Open Data2 and the data underpinning emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies. Indigenous Peoples’ data include information about individuals, families, and communities, and environments as well as knowledges, cultures, languages and specimens.