Whakauae Researcher co-develops the Global Indigenous Data Alliance Communiqué on Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Artificial Intelligence

This works comes out of the GIDA gathering in Mexico in February of this year, where Indigenous peoples from Aotearoa, Australia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Nigeria, Thailand, Sweden and Norway gathered together to discuss the changing landscape of Indigenous Data Sovereignty because of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The Communiqué aims to:

• articulate the urgency and needs around IDSov and IDGov generated by the proliferation of AI development and deployment.
• foreground existing frameworks, principles, and standards capable of enabling and protecting IDSov and IDGov in AI contexts.
• call for the implementation of IDSov and IDGov within AI systems.

It provides a series of calls to action for governments, private and public sectors to enforce the rights of Indigenous Peoples in relation to AI and to support Indigenous Peoples ability to control our data and also support community knowledge related to AI, its risks and opportunities.

Those who want to read the Communiqué can access it here.

Next steps of this work include a conference on this topic held in Tāmaki on the 15th and 16th of February co-hosted by Te Mana Raraunga and the Pacific Data Sovereignty Network, as well as an academic publication related to the key themes of the Mexico gathering.