Register below for this webinar, held on November 18, 2026 at 2pm PST.
Due to team time limitations, any registrations received after NOVEMBER 17th @2PM (PST) will not be reviewed.
About this Webinar:
Since 2003, Animikii has been building websites and custom software for Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island. This experience has culminated in Animikii’s new data platform, Niiwin, designed to support Indigenous Peoples as they assert their digital data sovereignty. But what does “building sovereign software” actually mean? This session discusses some of the challenges Indigenous Peoples face when “going digital” and how software is only a small part of the wider digital ecosystem that dominates our world.
Featured Speakers:
Jeff Doctor is a Cayuga Nation citizen from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, an Impact Strategist with Animikii Indigenous Technology, and a community organizer with Protect the Tract. He has over a decade of experience supporting Indigenous digital sovereignty initiatives with a focus on custom software development, data governance policy, privacy advocacy, and counter-surveillance tactics. He has worked on over 40 custom software Pathfinding projects for Indigenous nations, communities, organizations, and universities; and co-authored two eBooks with Animikii on asserting and supporting Indigenous data sovereignty as well as understanding and resisting generative AI.
Jeff Ward is the founder and CEO of Animikii Indigenous Technology, a values-driven B Corp building ethical technology for a more equitable world. Jeff is Ojibwe and Métis, originally from Manitoba, now living and working in Victoria, BC on Lekwungen territory. He’s a software developer, product designer, author, and speaker. He has served on the board of Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) and its subsidiaries since 2018 and is a founding board member of the Indigenous Tech Circle. He also serves on the OECD Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) Experts Working Group on Responsible AI and is a Fellowship Leadership Judge for MIT Solve.
This webinar is a collaborative effort involving the Indigenous Data Alliance (IDA), the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, the Indigenous Data Exchange (IDX), the IndigeLab Network, the Indigenous Data Law Lab at NYU, and the Sovereign Soils Research Collaborative.