Best Practices for Upholding Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Insights and recommendations for funding entities, government agencies, philantrhopic instituations and researchers

This report is a pdf file of the best practices determined by participants from the Indigenous Sentinels Network, a community-driven network coordinated by the Tribal government of St. Paul Island, Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Ecosystem Conservation Office and Axiom Data Science. The intended audience is any team responsible for data governance in environmental or social data work, in particular: funding agencies, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, individual researchers and technology companies. Recommendations cover Enhancing responsiveness and organizational capacity for funders, technology companies (Axiom Data Science is named), and specific technical strategies and enhancements for cyberinfrastructure (Again, Axiom Data Science is named). Resources and template data sharing agreement are included.