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Building on the Indigenous Data FUNding Friday project we plan to present on the methods and questions around indigenous data management needs with focus groups of communities that interact with indigenous groups. These focus groups include state and federal agency members, researchers at academic institutions, and indigenous non-profits.
By conducting conversations with liaison groups that work with numerous tribes, to understand scientific data management and cyberinfrastructure needs within tribes in order to: - Helping tribes promote data sovereignty - Compile existing data management training materials including technologies used that may help address knowledge gaps. - Identify subjects that are lacking training materials so they can be developed by ESIP and/or other appropriate communities. - Identify and share educational pathways that data managers in the ESIP community have taken - Co-produce and share this information with tribes to help them better advocate for the cyberinfrastructure and funding necessary to advance their own data sovereignty.
Our goal with this session is to get feedback from the ESIP community including people of color, minority communities, and indigenous peoples before proceeding with the interviews.
Value to Session Participants: Being able to give feedback on the methods being proposed, connecting indigenous communities and voices with the session organizers so they can be heard through this project. Allowing the many voices in ESIP to be able to have a say in shaping the project and maximize the impact it has on indigenous communities. The session represents an opportunity for federal agencies to fulfill trust responsibility with indigenous communities.
Recommended Ways to Prepare: Participants can think about their interactions with tribal communities and thinking about the things they've seen. Thinking about their own skills and technologies they use and how to effectively transfer them is very helpful.
Madison develops tools and workflows to make the USGS data release process more efficient for researchers and data managers. She also promotes data management best practices through the USGS’s Community for Data Integration Data Management Working Group and the USGS Data Management... Read More →
By training I am applied environmental ecologist, and am very interested in biological interactions in aquatic ecosystems. Currently, I work as a statewide data manager with the Idaho EPSCor GEM3 Project.
Supervisory Biologist, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Dr. Caleb Hickman holds a Ph.D. in Zoology with an emphasis in ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked at various universities, the Long Term Ecological Research network, and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, gaining extensive experience with species across... Read More →
