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Indigenous Data Governance and Digital Sovereignty Toolkit
Establish and enforce ownership over community data, grounded in OCAP® principles.
Purpose: help your community establish, maintain, and enforce ownership over its data. Data concerning your community members, lands, and operations often resides in third-party systems and vendor contracts you did not design. This toolkit provides a practical governance framework rooted in OCAP® principles, helps you audit where community data actually lives, and supplies policy templates and checklists to negotiate data-sharing, cloud, and vendor agreements from a position of authority rather than reaction.
What’s inside
- Data governance framework: strategic guidelines grounded in OCAP® principles to define data ownership and authority.
- Data inventory template: map where sensitive member, land, and operational data is stored, and who controls it.
- Data-sharing checklist: the key criteria to review before signing research, funding, or inter-organizational agreements.
- Cloud and vendor assessment guide: evaluate third-party software and hosting providers against data sovereignty requirements.
- Customizable policy templates: ready-to-use organizational templates to apply data protection and sovereignty standards.
Who it’s for
First Nations communities, leadership, and administration; program managers and research leads; and any organization negotiating funding, research, cloud, or technology agreements that involve member data.
05 · Against the standards
This is the Onake step. We take everything gathered and measure it against recognized frameworks — the yardsticks that turn observations into real findings. In plain terms:
- OCAP® — First Nations principles of Ownership, Control, Access and Possession — keeping your community in ownership and control of its own data.
- Law 25 — Quebec’s private-sector privacy law — what your organization is legally required to do when it handles personal information.
Basic digital package
Payment by invoice or e-transfer. The basic package is delivered by email within two business days.
Customized implementation support
We discuss scope and pricing together, based on your community’s needs and capacity.
Let’s discuss your needsThese templates are professionally drafted business documents and do not constitute legal advice or engineering design. For legal review, please consult independent counsel.