Indigenous Data Governance & Universities Communiqué
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.
CARE Directs Us Home: Prioritizing Indigenous Peoples’ Community Standards Communiqué
To: All users of the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance and Indigenous Data
IDGov ensures that Indigenous Peoples’ definitions and principles regarding data at local, regional, or national levels are implemented, reflecting their worldviews and priorities while enabling self-determined, data-driven decision-making. Where locally designed IDSov and IDGov models, principles, and guidelines exist, the CARE Principles emphasize their prioritization (Garrison and Carroll 2023; Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance n.d.).