The Aboriginal Data Sovereignty team will be visiting local towns in the region in the coming week to talk about how aboriginal communities could exercise sovereignty over their data through initiatives developing under Priority Reform 4 of Closing the Gap in NSW.
Depending on the success of the workshops the ultimate goal for this priority reform would find Aboriginal Communities with improved access to and ownership and control of all forms of Aboriginal data.
According to the team this is key to funding transparency, government accountability, cultural preservation, and the activation of communities’ own priorities…