ROUND TABLE 5 | DAY 1 | 10:45am-11:45am | BALLROOM I

| IBRAHIM GARBA (Karai-Karai), Assistant Research Professor, College of Public Health; Senior Researcher, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona 

The NSF project, “An Indigenous data governance approach for enhancing ethical research policies and practices,” addresses historical barriers to ethical and beneficial research conducted with Indigenous Peoples. The project applies an Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) approach to develop institutional indicators to be used for assessing existing university policies and for identifying gaps that hamper Indigenous Peoples’ self-determined participation in academic research.

The indicators draw from two sources: (1) a scoping review of scholarly literature on the management of Indigenous data across a range of disciplines and institutional contexts, including governance measures at global scale and among the similarly situated settler colonial CANZUS states i.e., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States (US); and (2) a comparative analysis of university research governance documents from academic institutions in the CANZUS states.

The session will provide an opportunity for community and expert engagement to help validate and refine the indicators. The gathering will be a forum to present the indicators based on findings from the scoping review and comparative analysis. At a practical level, the session will draw on the diversity and depth of expertise and experience at the summit (e.g., Indigenous leaders, community members, scholars, data practitioners) to further analyze, critique, and supplement the indicators with a view to grounding their relevance and scope. The forum will also invite strategies for effectively sharing the indicators and related tools with relevant data actors in the academic research ecosystem.