Otipêy | Indigenous-Led Investment Platform

How to Finance Community-Led Solutions (SSIR)

Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds has pioneered community-driven outcomes contracts to center Indigenous communities in Canada as leaders in addressing health and social problems. They present a bold new model for outcomes purchasing. <meta property=

Indigenous Tech Circle | Indigenous-led Tech in Canada

Indigenous-led community connecting technologists, founders, investors, and changemakers across Canada — host of the largest Indigenous tech conference.

Framework for Economic Reconciliation

Drawing on Indigenous worldviews about wealth and sustainability, along with the wisdom and lived experiences of Indigenous thought leaders and practitioners in the economic sector in BC, Step into the River: A Framework for Economic Reconcilation explores ways in which economic reconciliation can be a catalyst for transforming our economic system.

Indigenous Knowledges and Data Governance Protocol — Indigenous Innovation Initiative

Between March 2020 and March 2021, the Indigenous Innovation Initiative co-created the Indigenous Knowledges and Data Governance Protocol with the community, to guide how we collect and use Indigenous Knowledges and Data. Click on the image below to learn more about this Protocol. Since then, t

Animikii: Indigenous Technology for an Equitable Future

Animikii empowers Indigenous communities with culturally informed technology solutions like Niiwin—our groundbreaking tool for Indigenous data sovereignty and community empowerment.

Indigenous Data Sovereignty (DDN3-A11)

This article explores Indigenous data sovereignty, identifies some of the data-related challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples and highlights the work done to overcome these challenges.

How We're Funded

IOI is supported through a mix of philanthropic support and financial commitments from institutions, consortia-based organizations, and more. As a sustainability focused not-for-profit initiative, we are keenly aware of the strains that exist on the current funding landscape for open infrastructure non-profits. We are dedicated at IOI to exploring revenue

Abundant intelligences: placing AI within Indigenous knowledge frameworks

The current trajectory of artificial intelligence development suffers from fundamental epistemological shortcomings, resulting in the systematic operationalization of bias against non-white, non-male, and non-Western peoples. We argue that these failings are, in part, the result of certain Western rationalist epistemologies that exclude many ways of knowing about the world, and therefore they cannot provide a sufficient foundation on which to adequately, robustly, and humanely conceptualize intelligence. We present a new research agenda, Abundant Intelligences, an Indigenous-led, Indigenous-majority international, interdisciplinary research program that imagines anew how to conceptualize and design artificial intelligence (AI) based on Indigenous knowledge (IK) systems. Abundant Intelligences draws on the rich plurality of Indigenous knowledge systems, bringing together diverse sets of thought, culture, and protocol together. We show IK systems provide one way to rebuild AI’s epistemological foundations and transform these tools’ current role in reinforcing colonial practices of exclusion, extraction, manipulation, and eradication into engines of abundance that enable us to care better for ourselves, our communities, and our world. Our proposition is to fully engage with AI to explore how different conceptions of intelligence could be embodied in these technologies. In this paper, we present the tenets of the research program in detail, account for our methodological approach, describe the impact and limitations, and conclude on a discussion of the implications of the program.

The Shared Patterns of Indigenous Culture, Permaculture and Digital Commons | David Bollier

Rarely have I read an essay that knits together some very different commons with such wisdom and depth. Joline Blais' 2006 essay, “Indigenous Domain: Pilgrims, Permaculture and Perl,” is a wonderfully insightful analysis that reveals the underlying unity and logic of commons principles. Her piece appeared in Intelligent Agent (vol. 6, no. 2), published by the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts.

“Two‐Eyed Seeing”: An Indigenous framework to transform fisheries research and management

Abstract Increasingly, fisheries researchers and managers seek or are compelled to “bridge” Indigenous knowledge systems with Western scientific approaches to understanding and governing fisheries. Here, we move beyond the all‐too‐common narrative about integrating or incorporating (too often used as euphemisms for assimilating) other knowledge systems into Western science, instead of building an ethic of knowledge coexistence and complementarity in knowledge generation using Two‐Eyed Seeing as a guiding framework. Two‐Eyed Seeing ( Etuaptmumk in Mi’kmaw) embraces “learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of mainstream knowledges and ways of knowing, and to use both these eyes together, for the benefit of all,” as envisaged by Elder Dr. Albert Marshall. In this paper, we examine the notion of knowledge dichotomies and imperatives for knowledge coexistence and draw parallels between Two‐Eyed Seeing and other analogous Indigenous frameworks from around the world. It is set apart from other Indigenous frameworks in its explicit action imperative—central to Two‐Eyed Seeing is the notion that knowledge transforms the holder and that the holder bears a responsibility to act on that knowledge. We explore its operationalization through three Canadian aquatic and fisheries case‐studies that co‐develop questions, document and mobilize knowledge, and co‐produce insights and decisions. We argue that Two‐Eyed Seeing provides a pathway to a plural coexistence, where time‐tested Indigenous knowledge systems can be paired with, not subsumed by, Western scientific insights for an equitable and sustainable future.

TransCap Initiative

A collaborative innovation space for building the field of systemic investing

Why does Canada not have more pre-seed funds writing first cheques? | Boris Mann posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Why does Canada not have more preseed funds writing first cheques? It’s (I think) a recognized fact that this is the case. Is it because we are so close to the US ecosystem that the massive number of preseed funds there effectively cherry picks our top founders? I have heard that Canadian pre-seed has the opposite problem. They have to wade through a lot of inbound in Canada (many low quality), but themselves have such small funds they deploy very little. I have been thinking about what I did at Full Stack. The ecosystem was smaller then. There was no institutional preseed. 9 deals in 6 months made me one of the top investors in Canada. I say that not to boast, but show how low the bar was (is?). I modeled smaller cheques with much higher velocity during the pandemic with Venture Scouts. Recently talked to Jesse Rodgers who is thinking something similar. The model I have in mind would be - across Canada - scouts in every community (diverse young people) - 10k - 25k lead cheques - don’t need to wait for a lead, we say yes first - scouts check the hygiene - legal setup, founders reverse vesting etc - syndicate every deal 50 - 100 deals annually? One of the experiments here is if one can find and execute on this many. Not all would be venture track, so slightly different IndieVC style deal terms might be needed. Overhead is massive compared to capital deployed. Not enough AUM for management fees to pay for much. What do you think? Let’s build ;) | 37 comments on LinkedIn

Grassroots Economics — Community-Powered Economies

Empowering communities across the World with community currencies, ecosystem restoration, and commitment pooling since 2010.

Tagus Capital — DeepTech Venture Capital | Oxford

Tagus Capital is a DeepTech venture capital fund based in Oxford

Indigenous Cooperatives in Canada: The Complex Relationship between Cooperatives, Community Economic Development, Colonization, and Culture

This paper describes the intersection of the cooperative movement and Indigenous communities in Canada. The paper brings a lens of nation and race to an analysi

The voice for philanthropy working together | PFC

We are Canada’s national philanthropic network for grantmakers, working towards a more just, equitable and sustainable world.