Rainie, Stephanie CarrollKukutai, TahuWalter, MaggieFigueroa-Rodríguez, Oscar LuisWalker, JenniferAxelsson, PerDavies, T.Walker, S.B.Rubinstein, M.Perini, F.2019-09-2420192019-09-242019Rainie, S. C., Kukutai, T., Walter, M., Figueroa-Rodríguez, O. L., Walker, J., & Axelsson, P. (2019). Indigenous data sovereignty. In T. Davies, S. B. Walker, M. Rubinstein, & F. Perini (Eds.), The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons (pp. 300–319). Cape Town and Ottawa: African Minds and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).9781928331957https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12918• Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS) has emerged as an important topic over the last three years, raising fundamental questions about assumptions of ownership, representation, and control in open data communities. • IDS refers to the right of Indigenous peoples to control data from and about their communities and lands, articulating both individual and collective rights to data access and to privacy. • Ideas from IDS provide a challenge to dominant discourses in open data, questioning current approaches to data ownership, licensing, and use in ways that resonate beyond Indigenous contexts, drawing attention to the power and post-colonial dynamics within many data agendas. • Growing IDS networks are working to shape open data principles to better respect the rights of Indigenous peoples.application/pdfenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.Chapter in Book