ICTA-UAB researchers at the International Conference on Sami Research Data Governance 2023

The conference, hosted by The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, was the first of its kind designed to launch the GIDA-Sapmi network. The GIDA-Sapmi network consists of researchers and advocates across Sweden, Finland and Norway raising awareness and policy efforts to improve Sámi peoples’ sovereignty and governance over Sámi data.

Through the LICCI project’s proof-of-concept Research on Indigenous Data Sovereignty Protocols (RIDAGOP), Adrien Tofighi-Niaki and Ramin Soleymani from ICTA-UAB were invited to present their research around Indigenous consent protocols and research guidelines across Indigenous institutions and communities, as well as potential solutions via the creation of a toolkit that could facilitate custom data management processes for diverse repositories. The presentation can be accessed here [INSERT LINK]

The conference included many inspiring and important talks. A few of these included:

• Sámi (non-)presence in official statistics in Norway by Torrun Pettersen, Sámi University of Applied Sciences (NO);
• Towards data sovereignty in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Tahu Kukutai, University of Waikato (NZ);
• History of GIDA and CARE principles – towards Indigenous governance of data by Stephanie Russo Carroll, University of Arizona (US); 
• A First Nations Data Governance Strategy and Exercising our Rights Over Data by Erin Corston, First Nations Indigenous Governance Centre (FNIGC) (CA);
• Ensuring Indigenous data sovereignty and governance in European arctic research: a roadmap towards decolonial Arctic research” by members of the Saami Council and members of the Indigenous Voices research group at The Arctic University of Norway (NO).