Illustration by Guadalupe “Mario” Valencia, for Science Friday. You might’ve heard this phrase before: data equals power. Because when you have data, you can decide how they’re used and who gets to ...

Non-Indigenous scientists increasingly realize that Indigenous data are key to solving today's environmental challenges. Indigenous Peoples have generated and cared for data for millennia, passing ...

Krystal Tsosie grew up playing in the wide expanse of the Navajo Nation, scrambling up sandstone rocks and hiking in canyons in Northern Arizona. But after her father started working as a power plant ...

Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced funding for an Indigenous Data Repository led by Native scientists to help improve health in tribal communities and for all Indigenous Peoples.

“Any usage of data that does not support data sovereignty, that does not support our economic reconciliation, does not support our interests, constitutes data genocide,” said Hayden Godfrey, director ...

Background: In Canada, current approaches to managing health data do not always reflect principles of Indigenous data sovereignty, which emphasize Indigenous peoples’ rights to control how data about ...

Every month, a group of Indigenous scientists from around the world gathers on Zoom. They never have an agenda. They meet as colleagues to catch up and commiserate about the challenges of being ...

Sergio Gago is CTO at Cloudera. With more than 20 years of experience, Gago has held several senior positions at companies like Moody's Analytics, Rakuten, and Zino. He most recently served as ...