Governing data and data for governance: the everyday practice of Indigenous sovereignty

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Data Governance

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kinds of internal expertise and institutions that are needed to mobilise the exercise of such rights by indigenous peoples

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for such effective self-governance to occur, indigenous peoples need access to a range of culturally relevant and accurate information about themselves; they need data they can trust.

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Who exactly is the collective ‘self’ in the self-determined and self‑governing indigenous polity?

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What kind of collective identity do indigenous people want to shape

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who should have the authority to govern data on indigenous peoples

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the concept of ‘data’, which is itself a socially constructed field with epistemologically diverse underpinnings

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Data constitute a point-in-time intervention into a flow of information or behaviour—an attempt to inject certainty and meaning into uncertainty

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Datafication

‘Data’ should also be conceptually distinguished from 'information', which results when people attribute meaning and values to data in a particular context.

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Colonial governments deployed strategies to standardise and simplify the indigenous ‘social hieroglyph into a legible and administratively more convenient format’ (Scott 1999: 3)

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Indigenous knowledge systems in turn were treated as datum nullius—a blank slate on which could be constructed the edifice of a distorting ‘colonial archive’

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as indigenous groups begin to replace outsiders’ agendas with their own, they are often confronted with the daunting reality that their contemporary governance arrangements have been significantly eroded and that they lack the relevant data on which to make informed decisions and take action.

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when an indigenous governance agenda is imposed from the outside, data needs and the bases for interpretation are also effectively imposed from the outside

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Contrary to contemporary Western conceptualisations of corporate governance and ‘big data’ management systems, indigenous peoples’ governance or stewardship of data is not simply about the data. It is about the people who provide and govern an asset that happens to be data.

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satisfy the spirit and intent of reproducing their culturally based systems of knowledge

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