After decades of Indigenous policy failure, could Indigenous Data Sovereignty be the answer in making policy work for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders? 

There’s a global movement pushing for Indigenous Data Sovereignty but how do we move from data dependency to data sovereignty? What can we learn from other countries which are leading the way? And what has the pandemic revealed about the need for Indigenous people to take back their data? 

Host, Rhianna Patrick examines the world of Indigenous Data Sovereignty with Professor Maggie Walter (Professor of Sociology, University of Tasmania) Associate Professor Maui Hudson (Director of Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato), Associate Professor Jane Anderson (Anthropology and Museum Studies at NYU) and Dr Kalinda Griffiths (Epidemiologist and Scientia Lecturer at Centre for Big Data Research in Health, UNSW).

This podcast is supported by the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas.

Read: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy edited by Maggie Walter, Tahu Kukutai, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear. 

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Read: The first Indigenous COVID death reminds us of the outsized risk NSW communities face by Dr Kalinda Griffiths.

Read: Tikanga in Technology: Indigenous approaches to transforming data ecosystems 

Associate Producer: Bianca Hunt

Blak Nation Theme - Cormac Finn

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The term Blak was first used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual artist, Destiny Deacon in the early 90s. Blak is a term used by some Aboriginal people to reclaim historical, representational, symbolical, stereotypical and romanticised notions of Black or Blackness. This type of spelling may have been appropriated from U.S hip-hop. 

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