“Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) upholds the rights of Indigenous Peoples, communities, and Nations to govern the collection, ownership, and application of data created with or about Indigenous communities, Indigenous Lands, and the community’s non-human relations.
IDSov shifts from Western transactional approaches to data governance characterized by rights-based, relational approaches that enact responsibilities to Peoples and Land.
A key concept within IDSov is Indigenous sovereignty itself” (Carroll, Duarte, and Liboiron, 2024: 207-208). As such, each Nation, community, band, and Tribe must dictate their own parameters around data and its governance. The tools here are meant to support that expression of sovereignty.
