How do we conceptualise the use of data to drive health equity in Indigenous populations? This is a brief Tweet storm on the main considerations required when using data pertaining to Indigenous people.

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There are four primary areas of focus.

The first is recognition. The right to identify and be counted in the official pop. This aligns with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Aus has non-binding support for.

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Still on recognition - we also have the right to develop our own mechanisms of how to be recognised, in terms of governance processes on the systems that report on us.

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The second is operations - this is about developing next generation Indigenous and culturally competent data nerds as well as culturally safe environments/systems that work towards the priorities of Indigenous people. #nomoreAIbias

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The third is about priorities and who sets what priorities on behalf of whom? Which researchers, governments, communities and/or individuals should be developing and advocating for targets and indicators? Here we sit Indigenous people front.

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And the fourth is about monitoring and measurement approaches. We all know that the same data can tell many different stories. So what is the purpose of the monitoring? We need to be careful of #liesdamnliesandstatistics moments.

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That is my tweet storm on Indigenous data... I will be here all week.

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