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BioCultural and Sciences Working Group meeting

The inaugural Local Contexts BioCultural & Sciences Working Group meeting will be held Tuesday, September 30th UTC.

This first meeting will focus on introductions, group purpose, and conduct expectations. Please also bring any thoughts about what meeting topics/discussions would be helpful for supporting your Local Contexts ideas and projects.

Current and invited members of the Working Group should have an email and calendar invite with connection details. If you are interested in the group, you can read more and submit your interest on our Working Groups and Networks page.

Local Contexts Biocultural & Sciences Working Group (BSWG): The Local Contexts Biocultural and Sciences Working Group brings together group members who work within biocultural research and related science fields around the world who are interested in or are already using the Local Contexts system of Biocultural and Traditional Knowledge Labels and Notices.

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Upcoming Events

Local Contexts Hub Information Session

December 2, 2026
, 22:00 UTC
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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!

Local Contexts Hub Information Session

October 14, 2026
, 19:00 UTC
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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!

Hawai‘i Institution/Researcher Network meeting

September 30, 2026
, 21:00 UTC
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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, …

Climate Week 2026

September 22, 2026 - September 23, 2026
, 22:30 UTC - 00:30 UTC
Event poster. “Living Data, Living Land. More-Than-Human Rights, AI, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Tuesday, September 22, 6:30-8:30 pm. Vanderbilt Hall, Room 218, NYU Law. Speakers: Jane Anderson, Eve Tuck (Unangax̂), Suzanne Greenlaw (Maliseet), Carlos Andrés Baquero-Díaz, Erin Robinson, Neil Davies, Maheata White Davies (Raiatea), Mililani Ganivet (Tahiti).”

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, …

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