ELOKA fosters collaboration between resident Arctic experts and visiting researchers to facilitate the collection, preservation, exchange, and use of local observations and Indigenous knowledge of the Arctic. ELOKA provides data management and user support to Indigenous communities to ensure their data and knowledge are managed, visualized, and shared in an ethical manner in order to work toward information and data sovereignty for Arctic residents.
Recent Updates
The names they carry: The continued efforts of Yupik elders to pass down knowledge
When Yup’ik people from southwest Alaska travel on their ancestral lands and waters, they navigate using traditional place names. These… Read More
When Yup’ik people from southwest Alaska travel on their ancestral lands and waters, they navigate using traditional place names. These… Read More
Found in translation
As part of the ELOKA mission of ensuring data sovereignty for Arctic residents, ELOKA helped create online atlases for two groups of… Read More
As part of the ELOKA mission of ensuring data sovereignty for Arctic residents, ELOKA helped create online atlases for two groups of… Read More
Advancing Indigenous data sovereignty
In September 2019, three international efforts were launched to advance Indigenous Peoples’ rights and interests in their data: The Oñati… Read More
In September 2019, three international efforts were launched to advance Indigenous Peoples’ rights and interests in their data: The Oñati… Read More