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ATALM 2026
The Local Contexts team will be attending and presenting at the 2026 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museum held September 21-25 in Spokane, Washington, United States. The team is currently slotted to present: If you plan to attend, please reach out to our outreach team (or on the Whova app) to connect! See …
OPEN @ UNGA 81
What does digital sovereignty mean in an open world? On September 21, OPEN @ UNGA 81: A Conversation on Collaboration will bring together leading voices from open source, digital rights, and digital sovereignty — including Local Contexts Founder Jane Anderson — for a day of conversation on how the two intersect. Discussions will examine where …
Climate Week 2026
Building on last year’s inaugural Living Data, Living Lands, this year’s NYC Climate Week convening will center the question that the Global Indigenous Movement has been addressing for decades: How can Indigenous communities control the AI infrastructure itself? This gathering engages AI, which, left unchecked, could extend extractive logics that absorbs material without attribution, provenance, …
Hawai‘i Institution/Researcher Network meeting
The next Hawai‘i Institution/Researcher Network meeting will be held September 30 UTC. For this meeting, we will host a brief presentation orienting the group to Local Contexts Labels and Notices as tools for operationalizing Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov). We will also work in breakout discussions about IDSov principles and terminology and to compile resources, knowledge, …
Local Contexts Hub Information Session
Do you have questions about Local Contexts or the Local Contexts Hub? Curious about how you can use the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels and Notices to support Indigenous data sovereignty and cultural authority? Sign-up for a group informational or Hub demonstration session with the Local Contexts team!
![Text on a decorative yellow background: “[The] transition to more relational science practices is not only about more inclusive science, it is about upholding Indigenous Peoples’ sovereignty and self-determination, and adhering to the free, prior, and informed consent for engaging with data.” Lydia Jennings, Katherine Jones, Riley Taitingfong, Andrew Martinez, Dominique David-Chavez, Rosanna ‘Anolani Alegado, Adrien Tofighi-Niaki, Julie Maldonado, Bill Thomas, Dennis Dye, Jeff Weber, Katie V. Spellman, Scott Ketchum, Ruth Duerr, Noor Johnson, Jennifer Balch, & Stephanie Russo Carroll in “Governance of Indigenous Data in Open Earth Systems Science,” Nature Communications (2025)16:572, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53480-2.](https://localcontexts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nature-Communications-25-2-3-2.png)
![Text on decorative green background. “Creating a world in which animals in museums are cared for in a culturally connected way requires first caring about identification. [Then we] can flag items for return or create opportunities for communities with ties to these remains to provide meaningful context for their care.” Jimmy Arterberry (Comanche Nation) from “Better Care Urged for Animal Remains Tied to Indigenous People,” by Amanda Heidt, Science Magazine (January 2, 2025). White Local Contexts logo in bottom right corner.](https://localcontexts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Science-MagazineAnimal-Remains.png)
