Native BioData Consortium

08/31/2026

The Indigenous Data Sovereignty Movement cannot be stopped. In 2024, we submitted or worked on innovative decentralized grants with the Craig Venter Institute, a 100& Change with Stanford and African Nations and the D4I Tribal Data Repository. These ideas of secure and decolonized data sharing are spreading like wildfire. See here.

A new platform lets African organisations host, store, study, govern, and share their own genomic and biodiversity digital sequence data - while keeping full custody of it. Here is what it is, how it works, and how to join. The African Digital Sequence Information DataBank for Biodiversity and Agric...

08/25/2026

NativeBio is a leader in the Indigenous Data Sovereignty movement. We are agnostic to data and samples because we have to be. They are coming for everything. Everything that's left. We want to be a Safe Harbor and are a Safe Harbor. https://nativebio.org/

08/21/2026

From Australian, Pacific and Indigenous Data Sovereignty scholars world wide. Stand up before they hold you down and take all your stuff.

Indigenous Governance of Data Held by Organisations: How to Operationalise Indigenous Data Sovereignty Principles in AustraliaResearch PapersAuthorsCassandra Sedran-PriceRiley TaitingfongRose BarrowcliffeJacob PrehnMaggie WalterGawaian Bodkin-AndrewsRaymond LovettAbstractIndigenous Data Sovereignty....

08/21/2026

From Jim Sill and Harvard School of Indigenous Governance and Development (economies).... good stuff....read with intent.

08/19/2026

Native BioData Consortium produces future shaping critiques of the settler activities in the Americas and its effects on our ancestral birthright.

As AI transforms research and healthcare, Native Bio-Data says tribal nations must build the institutions and governance needed to manage data as a strategic resource.

08/18/2026

Recently, NativeBio was invited to speak at the Genomics Standards Consortium in Aotearoa and give a lecture at the University of Otago. Co-Learning from our Indigenous relatives world wide is necessary for alliances that are cultural, spiritual, political and financial. We hope that we furthered that worthy goal.

08/14/2026

NativeBio is proud to share the news! Executive Director, Joe Yracheta will be a featured speaker at the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in Science in Long Beach, CA October 29th thru the 31st, 2026 https://sacnas-19842608.hs-sites-na2.com/2026plenaryspeakers

08/13/2026

New paper!

In 2018, a staff attorney for the Native American Rights Funds described efforts by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to collect DNA from under-represented American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) communities (All of Us Research Program) as an example of biocolonialism.1 Criticised for fo...

08/13/2026

Native Bio is everywhere! Why? Because we are the science & society heroes the world needs right now!

08/06/2026

Thanks Dr. Betsy Nelson (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) for letting us put your visage on a T-shirt! On the back it says ! in your honor. Share far and wide!.

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