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Indigenous Data Authority
Governing Indigenous data with authority, consent, and accountability — before harm occurs.
Indigenous-led Governance and Certification Body
The Indigenous Data Authority (IDA) is an Indigenous-led governance and certification body that ensures Indigenous data is governed lawfully, ethically, and with proper authority before it is collected, reused, inferred, or embedded into digital or AI systems.
What We Do
The Indigenous Data Authority provides governance assessments, assurance, and certification for organisations that engage with Indigenous-related data or AI systems. IDA governs how data is handled — not where it is stored.
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Why It Matters
Indigenous data is relational, collective, and inseparable from identity, culture, place, and people. Once data is digitised or automated, harm cannot easily be undone.
Governance must exist before data use begins.
Authority Before Data
Indigenous authority must exist before Indigenous data is collected, analysed, shared, reused, or used to train or inform AI systems.
What IDA Is — and Is Not
IDA is a governance and assurance framework. IDA is not a data storage provider, a privacy-only compliance checklist, or a one-off exercise.
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Our team supports organisations to design, implement, and uphold governance frameworks that are fit for purpose, accountable, and defensible.
Lisa Pizzoni
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