Sessional Lecturer, INF2151H - Indigenous Data Governance Foundations

University of Toronto

Faculty of Information

Sessional Lecturer

Winter Term 2027 (January 2027 - April 2027)

Course Description:

This course (INF2151H – Indigenous Data Governance Foundations) introduces students to the ethics, principles, frameworks, and methodologies implicated in the design and creation of data collection and governance systems centered on the rights to sovereignty and self-determinism of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples, as well as Indigenous peoples in a global context.

The course surveys the legal and political dynamics of Indigenous-settler relations, with an emphasis on the problematic history of data collection by state and non-state actors within Indigenous populations, and on the data sovereignty countermeasures developed and deployed by Indigenous communities.

This course develops studen...