Living Data, Living Lands panel

A Panel event organized by NYU Indigenous Data Law Lab, Local Contexts, the Indigenous Data Exchange, Center CIRCL and MOTH at NYU entitled “Living Data, Living Lands: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Biodiversity Monitoring” came together during Climate Week. See press on the event here and a recording of the panel here.

Current threats to biodiversity are tracked by billions of data points worldwide. Technology today prioritizes global aggregation, severing ties between data and the communities who have been stewarding and caring for these biodiverse lands and waters. The pace of technology change is only accelerating this extractive norm. 

At 2026 NYC Climate Week, Local Contexts, the Indigenous Data Exchange, Center CIRCL, and MOTH seek to interrupt this cycle. This panel reimagines and puts into practice Indigenous-led biodiversity data infrastructures. Our focus is on building a future that connects and empowers rather than extracts and disconnects.

The event brought together NYU Indigenous Data Law Lab founder Jane Anderson,

Eve Tuck (Unangax̂); Suzanne Greenlaw (Maliseet) and Raz Wachtel; Carlos Andrés Baquero-Díaz; Mililani Ganivet (Tahit); material by Maheata White Davies (Tahit) and Neil Davies.