Data Strategy Tracker
ISC, in collaboration with Indigenous partners, will develop, and TBS will incorporate into policies, protocols and guidance for the identification, sharing, management and governance of Indigenous data to support self-determination and data sovereignty.
Through the Transformational Approach to Indigenous Data (TAID) initiative, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis partners continued to develop their distinctions-based data strategies. Indigenous partners’ work under TAID complements ISC’s efforts to improve data sharing with Indigenous partners as a first step toward the gradual transfer of service delivery responsibilities, as mandated by ISC’s enabling legislation.
Under this initiative, ISC also continued to manage and/or track nearly 100 active data sharing requests, including 40 Information Sharing Agreements, and launched an engagement with Indigenous governments and organizations on the development of a departmental Policy on External Data Sharing in spring 2024. The first stage of the engagement concluded in February 2025 and, in the process, ISC gathered input from national, regional, rights holding, and service delivery organizations across distinctions. Subsequent stages of the engagement are expected to conclude by December 2025 and will result in a draft policy and What We Heard Report. This work will support ISC’s commitment to collaborate with Indigenous partners on the development of protocols and guidance for the identification, sharing, management and governance of Indigenous data to support self-determination and data sovereignty.
The GC Data Community collaborated with ISC to offer a learning event in June 2024 on Sharing Data With Indigenous Partners, to raise awareness about the Transformational Approach to Indigenous Data. Over 1,500 participants registered for the event that was held during National Indigenous Peoples History month.
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