https://www.animikii.com/news/decolonizing-digital-contextualizing-indigenous-data-sovereignty
Animikii, an Indigenous-owned technology company, produced a 6-part data sovereignty series that contextualizes, explains, and explores Indigenous data sovereignty. Many of the same issues I see in libraries are discussed in this series– who owns the data/ knowledge; who has the right to interpret and reproduce it; how do we share this knowledge/data, respecting protocols and processes that safeguard the integrity of the information; and how can we use/keep/interpret data in a way that doesn’t reinforce colonialist practices?
The theoretical questions about ownership, access, and collection underpin library collections, and deserve deep consideration and reflection.