Principled partnerships: Memorial Univerity of Newfoundland implements agreement supporting Indigenous data sovereignty
Memorial is among the first universities in Canada to create and adopt a formal research agreement that gives Indigenous groups the right to own, control, access and possess their data in research. [via Jeff Green/Memorial University of Newfoundland]
The agreement also supports researchers in their efforts to be accountable to the ways Indigenous data should be collected, protected, used and shared in partnership and in accordance with Indigenous priorities.
"The new template is one of many ongoing initiatives at Memorial to strengthen ethics and accountability in Indigenous research," said Dr. Max Liboiron, interim associate vice-president (Indigenous research), who played an integral role in the development of the agreement.
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