The World’s First Indigenous Data Standard: IEEE 2890-2025
IEEE 2890-2025 Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data details the process for describing and recording the provenance of data about or related to Indigenous Peoples and their cultures, lands, and knowledge systems. Within data-generated industries, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as biodiversity research and innovations in genomic science, this standard enhances the integrity of that data, and the likelihood of engaged collaborations with data producers in ways that were previously unthinkable. Setting standards begins to address the combined problems of the proliferation of unreliable data and information on Indigenous Peoples; the lack of Indigenous participation, control, and governance over the circulation of Indigenous data and information; and the misappropriation and misuse of Indigenous data and information.
Join Stephanie Carroll, Jane Anderson, Randy Akee, Camille Callison, and Maui Hudson to discuss the development, approval, and public access to the IEEE 2890-2025 Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data.
This webinar will describe the context for and development of the standard, and its implications for Indigenous Peoples and other data actors. Notably, the process included Indigenous leadership at all stages, an Indigenous Caucus, consultation with Indigenous Peoples, and ensuring open access for the standard.