[CODATA-international] Ethical issues of Digital Feudalism affecting Indigeneous communities
Suchith Anand
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
Tue Jul 28 04:19:44 EDT 2020
Hi Tracey,
Thank you for your feedback and inputs. Greatly appreciated. I do not have any knowledge or expertise in Indigenous Data Sovereignty topics. As I came across an article on Indigenous Data Sovereignty , I was interested to learn more .
I also thank Mark, Falk for sharing their inputs. I fully agree that it is Indigenous people who need to lead on efforts on Indigenous Control of Indigenous Data. I now understand that there is long standing work in this area. So the article that I am planning to write on Digital Feudalism in Location Data is not going to look into Indigenous Data.
Thanks Mark for the link to CARE Principles and Global Indigenous Data Alliance (https://www.gida-global.org)
I think it is organisations like Global Indigenous Data Alliance that need to look into these topics and share their expertise.
I came across some excellent resources
Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Towards an Agenda<https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d3799de845604000199cd24/t/5d6f8aae27641800017a9473/1567591089094/Indigenous+Data+Sovereignty+Book.pdf>
https://www.indigenous-ai.net/position-paper
Thanks to Pyrou Chung for sharing these resources and ideas with the GeoForAll community at https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2020-July/005726.html
I hope to learn more as I am new to this topic. I joined the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Indigenous Peoples’ Community of Practice to learn more on the Earth Observations (EO) data aspects of this and to help me understand the best practices that need to be followed . Details at https://geoipcop.org
Best wishes,
Suchith
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From: Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [CODATA-international] Ethical issues of Digital Feudalism affecting Indigeneous communities
Suchith;
Your intentions are good, but feudalism and colonialism are not the same thing, and they do not play out the same way across different states, nor within them. Indigenous peoples in Canada, First Nations, Metis and Inuit have their own systems of data sovereignty and there are many others, Prof. Taylor for one, who have been doing post colonial cartography, counter cartography and building infrastructure, there is also much data reclamation and a shift in classification systems and so on.
I might suggest that you defer to the long standing work in this space, also, "If about us then with us". If you are to engage in this work, then you must work with Indigenous peoples and not engage in this work on people's behalf.
Sincerely
Tracey
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 8:59 AM Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I am working on an article for EthicalGEO [1] on Ethics of Digital Feudalism in Location Data .There are many ethical questions that arise when Digital Feudalism, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Location Data intersect [2]. Details at
https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/ethics-digital-feudalism-gis
I came across an article on Indigenous Data Sovereignty at
https://medium.com/technology-solidarity/indigenous-data-sovereignty-in-southeast-asia-with-pyrou-chung-b462db048cfe
I am interested to learn more on Ethical issues of Digital Feudalism affecting Indigeneous communities. There are approximately 476 million Indigenous Peoples worldwide, in over 90 countries. Although they make up over 6 percent of the global population, they account for about 15 percent of the extreme poor. They safeguard 80 percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity. The land on which they live and the natural resources on which they depend are inextricably linked to their identities, cultures, livelihoods, as well as their physical and spiritual well-being. I respect the kindness, resilience, dignity and strength of indigenous peoples around the world.
As Indigeneous communities play a key role as guardians of forests and biodiversity , are there any studies or any articles on the impact of AI based GIS/location platforms for Indigeneous communities?
As some big GIS cloud platform companies/vendors also have verticals in the mining industry, oil & gas etc, are there any ethical guidelines so that AI tools and insights developed in forest monitoring, conservation, biodiversity projects by AI based platforms are not used by the platform vendors for mining projects in forests in the future?
How will Digital Feudalism affect the economically poor? Are there any ethical guidelines to protect the rights of Indigeneous communities? Are there any studies or any articles on the impact of AI based GIS/location platforms for Indigeneous communities? If so, please email me the publication details by 10th August 2020 so I can learn more and reference them in my article. Thanks.
Best wishes,
Suchith
[1] https://ethicalgeo.org
[2] https://www.godan.info/news/ethical-dimensions-digital-feudalism-agriculture
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