International Conference on Sámi Research Data Governance25–27 January 2023, Romsa/Tromsø, Norway
The International Conference on Sámi Research Data Governance aims to identify pertinent issues concerning Sámi data governance. The conference will facilitate the exchange of knowledge, understanding, and experiences regarding Indigenous and Sámi data governance and promote collaboration between Sámi and non-Sámi researchers in the Nordic context on data governance and management.
There is an increasing awareness of, and need for, ethical and responsible handling of Indigenous knowledge and data. The general FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship were published in 2016 and seek to make research data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
The Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) is a global network of Indigenous researchers, data practitioners, and policy activists advocating for Indigenous data governance to advance Indigenous data control within their nation-states and at an international level. The CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics) principles for Indigenous data governance were established in 2018 by GIDA to complement the FAIR principles.
Connected to the global network, the GIDA-Sápmi network was founded in June 2021 with members from various universities, memory institutions, and archives in Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The objectives of GIDA-Sápmi include 1) to promote, adapt, and operationalise the CARE principles to the Nordic Sámi context; 2) to make the Nordic research community, memory and archival institutions aware of the Indigenous CARE principles; and 3) to advance the discussion on Sámi data governance principles.
Registration for the conference is now closed. Deadline for registration was December 5th, 2022.
All presentations will be given in English or northern sámi language. Interpretation between English and northern sámi will be available on Zoom.
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Dr. Tahu Kukutai (Ngāti Tiipa)
Professor of Demography at The University of Waikato and Co-Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Centre of Research Excellence in Aotearoa New Zealand. Tahu specialises in Māori and Indigenous demographic research and has written extensively on issues of Māori population change and identity, Indigenous data sovereignty, official statistics, and ethnic classification. She is a founding member of the Māori Data Sovereignty Network Te Mana Raraunga and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance. She co-edited Indigenous data sovereignty: Toward an agenda (ANU Press), Indigenous data sovereignty and policy (Routledge), and The Oxford handbook of Indigenous sociology (OUP). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and a Global Leader of Digital Human Rights (Global Leaders).
Dr. Stephanie Carroll, Dene/Ahtna, a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah in Alaska, and of Sicilian-descent.
Based at the University of Arizona, she is Assistant Professor of Public Health, Associate Director for the Native Nations Institute, and Acting Director and Assistant Research Professor at the Udall Center. Her interdisciplinary research group, the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, develops research, policy, and practice innovations for Indigenous data sovereignty. Stephanie chairs the Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA), the International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group at the Research Data Alliance, and the Indigenous Data Working Group for the IEEE P2890 Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples' Data.
Erin Corston, Executive Lead, National Data Team
Born and raised in Treaty 9 Territory, Erin Corston is a member the Chapleau Cree First Nation (CCFN; Cree: ᔕᑊᓗ ᐃᓂᓂᐗᐠ, šaplo ininiwak). CCFN is one of eight communities affiliated with the Mushkegowuk Tribal Council and it is located near the town of Chapleau, Ontario. Her current work at FNIGC is focused on advancing First Nations’ rights over their data and information, through the implementation of a national strategy on First Nations Data Governance. The First Nations Data Governance Strategy (FNDGS, or “The Strategy”) is all about establishing a First Nations-led network of Regional Information Governance Centers (RIGCs) that, once up and running, will provide shared data and statistical services to First Nations communities, their governments, and their service delivery organizations. Erin believes strongly in First Nations’ ability to harness the power of their data to create sustainable change at the local level, where it matters most.
18:30-21.00 Reception at Árdna, The Sámi cultural house it UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Taxi leaves Clarion Hotel the Edge at 18.00. Taxi back to Clarion Hotel the Edge leaves from Árdna at 21.15
08.00-9.00: Registration at conference venue, Clarion Hotel The Edge
09.00-09.30 Introduction and welcome by the GIDA-Sápmi conference committee. Opening remarks from
09.30-10.30: "Towards data sovereignty in Aotearoa/New Zealand", Keynote Tahu Kukutai, Professor of Demography, University of Waikato
10.30 -11.00: Break
11.00-12.00: Session one. Three presenters (15 minutes each), followed by Q&A
12.00-13.00 Session two. Three presenters (15 minutes each), followed by Q&A
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.00 "History of GIDA and the CARE principles- towards indigenous governance of data." Keynote Stephanie Russo Carroll, GIDA co-director and Assistant Professor of Public Health at University of Arizona. (Via zoom)
15.00-15.15: Presentation of the Sami Parliament’s Expert Ethics Committee for Sami Health Research. Siv Kvernmo, Head of Committee.
15.15-16.30 Session three. Three presenters (15 minutes each), followed by Q&A.
Conference dinner at 19.00 at the conference venue, Clarion Hotel the Edge
06.00 - 07.30: Optional morning ice-bathing and sauna at PUST, a sauna in the centre of Tromsø (Wardrobe and cold water shower)
08.45 - 09.00 Opening remarks from the president of The Saami Council Aslat Holmberg.
09.00 - 10.00 : "A First Nations Data Governance Strategy and Exercising our Rights Over Data", Keynote Erin Corston, Executive Lean, National Data Champion Team, First Nations Indigenous Governance Centre, Canada
10.00 -10.15: "Stewardship and data", Magnus Kostøl, adviser from the Sami Parliament in Norway
10.15-11.30: Session 4. Three presenters (15 minutes each), followed by Q&A
11.30-12.00: Break
12.00-13.00: Roundtable discussion: "Ensuring Indigenous data sovereignty and governance in European arctic research: a roadmap towards decolonial Arctic research"
Participants are Aslak Holmberg and Eva Fjellheim from the Saami council, Britt Kramvig, Nina Hermansen and Jan Erik Henriksen from IVO (Indigenous Voices research group.), UiT The Artic University of Norway. Jan Erik will lead the discussion.
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-14:30: Closing comments and goodbye.
14.30-15.30: Meeting with presenters.
Bures boahtin / Welcome
 Professor Department of Clinical Medicine UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
 Specialist in Arctic Policy Issues, Indigenous Peoples' Policy Development. Saami Council |
 Susanna Siri |
 Per Axelsson |
 Research Professor Arctic Indigenous Studies University of Lapland |
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