RECONCILIATION: MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER - APPENDICES
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C.2 Data Ownership TWC's instruments and process will be directed by the following guidelines within Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP ® ). To mobilize Indigenous self-determination and self-governance, OCAP ® , as sanctioned by the First Nations Information Governance Committee (2007), was established as a guiding principle for the ethical and culturally competent collection of data between researcher and Indigenous Nations, communities, and organizations. In order to mobilize these protective factors, the principles of OCAP ® are as follows: • Ownership – the concept that Indigenous Nations collectively possess cultural knowledge, data and information; • Control – the rights of Indigenous peoples to control their empirical environments that are infused with their everyday life, which includes research, information, and data; • Access – the concept of Indigenous groups having control, ownership and accessibility of the data collected; and, • Possession – in this framework, this refers to the trusted relationship between the possessor of data and those who own said data (FNIGC, 2007). The OCAP ® principles were developed to instill trust and self-governance back into the research process for Indigenous populations and the researcher. As such, they are of absolute importance for TWC’s work with Indigenous populations.
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