Indigenous Perspectives on Data Governance within the Nature ID Ecosystem

Data sovereignty relates to redressing Indigenous Peoples’ right to own, control, and supervise both the tangible expressions, as well as intangible forms, of data collection and production. Emerging forms of data governance offer opportunities to provide new protocol mechanisms and infrastructures for Indigenous data to exist temporally in non-Indigenous systems. In the context of data governance, Indigenous Peoples and civil society voices have recommended the creation of ‘biocultural notices’ and ‘traditional knowledge labels’ to provide safeguards on the provenance of Indigenous data.