Indigenous Veterans Monument goes digital
Accessible format reaches new audiences
What will AI infrastructure mean for energy, the environment and communities?
Generative AI may be a digital product, but it’s built on vast physical infrastructure.
The infrastructure question beneath good ethics
Why protocols alone can't address Indigenous data sovereignty
Matriarch earning PhD's & communities protecting data
Stories on data archives, trusts, centres and systems!
IDSov Calls to Action from GIDA
Digging into GIDA's communique on IDSov and AI, plus Pacific research repositories, scholarship and fellowship deadlines.
Our scholarship application is now live!
Indigenous youth tech and entrepreneurship awards, plus Jeff Ward in BetaKit
Truth depends on records
38,000 residential school testimonies at risk, and a Dane-zaa archive comes home.
First-of-its-kind partnership announced at ALL IN
Pilot empowers community to share its history entirely on its own terms
Lights, Camera and real Action on Indigenous Data Sovereignty at the CMF
Canada Media Fund makes bold commitment to Indigenous sovereignty
Indigenous Data Sovereignty is turning into paperwork
Metadata fields, custodianship lines and peer review policy, plus courses, guides and an October Data Talk
Data centres, salmon genomics, and a Māori milestone
This week's reads on Indigenous data sovereignty, plus courses and guides.
How might we implement Indigenous Data Sovereignty?
This week’s four pieces get into what this looks like in conservation work, in Canadian law, and an Australian perspective from inside the organizations holding the data.
A new illustrated Indigenous Data Sovereignty primer and more
Three reads on Indigenous data sovereignty this week
Free and prior informed consent and Indigenous data
From AI models to genomes to the census, think about how "free and prior informed consent" fits in
Indigenous data governance in practice, from cancer research to totem pole innovation
Plus a super inspiring story out of Arizona where youth are teaching Elders tech skills.
News spanning the theory to the practice of Indigenous Data Governance
We hope you’re enjoying your summer News River Express, and if you ever have news to share please feel free to send it over.
"AI moves fast. Human hearts move slow."
This week: data centres, Wikimedia, and Animikii's new pilot with CEIMIA.
Three Articles Connected to Indigenous Data Sovereignty
News River Express is back this week with three articles worth your time
From the Arctic to Australia, researchers demand respect for Indigenous data
Unveiling the summer edition, News River Express, with three key stories on Indigenous tech and data sovereignty!
How Animikii observe statutory holidays
Summer season kickoff: digital Navajo weaving, AI in health symposium, and support for Indigenous artifact repatriation.