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Thursday, 30 March, 2023
3:00-4:00 PM CET
The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”. The day aims to celebrate women and girls who are championing the advancement of transformative technology and digital education. Data and technology are a form of power, but depending on their use, they can either amplify equality or exacerbate unequal power structures. Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities have need for agency and control over the data that is about them, in this case, particularly with regards to their land data. An extra layer of nuance and complexity is to be accounted for when we consider the particular needs of Indigenous women when it comes to their land data.
In this discussion, we will explore the data gap on the land rights of Indigenous women, as well as their lack of involvement in the field of data science, most particularly in the data that is about them and around their ownership of land. The aim is to understand if the current model of data science includes and reflects the realities of Indigenous women and their land rights and to better understand how they can take control back over the data that is about their rights.
One of the main aims of the Land Dialogues series is to highlight Indigenous knowledge and wisdom as a solution to pressing global challenges. The series does so by creating a virtual space that bridges that gap, where the term “expert” is not limited to academics or researchers, in an effort to both decolonize and democratize knowledge. This opening webinar of the Land Dialogues 2023 series will shed a light, more specifically, on the power differentials that exist when it comes to data. We invite you to join us in this discussion!
SPEAKERS
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Dr. Lydia Jennings, Soil Scientist & American Indian Policy, Wixáritari/ Yoeme
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Denik Puriati, Community Outreach and Community Organization, Wisnu Foundation
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Rudo Kemper, Chief Programme Officer, Cadasta Foundation
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Betty Rubio, Kichwa Leader, Peru
The Land Dialogues webinar series promotes the centrality of Indigenous and community land rights in advancing global efforts to halt the climate crisis, achieving a healthy planet and forwarding the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It focuses on the importance of formally recognising and securing the customary lands of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as a crucial contribution to the overall climate health of the planet.
The Land Dialogues 2023 series shed light on a variety of important issues regarding the agency of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ land rights; from the power differentials that existed concerning Indigenous land data, to Indigenous Peoples and Local communities taking back control of the dialogues and discussions with donors regarding climate funds.
In 2022 we remain in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic, increasingly violent weather events connected to the changing climate, and global security tensions due to war and conflict. Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) are among the most vulnerable and are both directly and indirectly hard-hit by these events.
The Land Portal Foundation, the Tenure Facility, the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Ford Foundation proposed a series of Land Dialogues promoting the centrality of Indigenous and community land rights in advancing global efforts to halt the climate crisis, achieving a healthy planet and forwarding the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Under the umbrella of theLand Dialogues series, the first webinar of this year’s series “Taking Data Back: Women’s Sovereignty Over Land Data” took place on March 30th, 2023. The webinar drew in a little over 220 participants and featured panelists from Indigenous women leaders to programme officers. The series is organized by a consortium of organizations, including the Land Portal Foundation, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Tenure Facility.