The right of Indigenous peoples to govern the collection, ownership and use of data about their communities, lands and resources, as an expression of self-determination.
In more detail
The movement grew in the 2010s through networks such as Te Mana Raraunga (Aotearoa New Zealand), the Maiam nayri Wingara collective (Australia) and the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network, which formed the Global Indigenous Data Alliance. Its CARE principles (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, Ethics), published in 2020, complement the FAIR principles for open science. It challenges both open-data defaults and individual-consent models, because data about a people can harm or benefit the group as a whole. Implementation includes community review of research, tribal data repositories and benefit-sharing agreements.