Regional Monitoring System: Technology for Stewardship and Sovereignty – Coastal First Nations

CFN’s Regional Monitoring System is a successful model for Indigenous-led monitoring, encouraging collaboration between Nations and providing sound data for effective decision-making. Image: Doug Neasloss.

In its winter edition (Vol 20, Number 4), the Journal of Ocean Technology published a feature article on the Regional Monitoring System (RMS)—the digital platform that Coastal Guardians and other stewardship staff use to monitor territories throughout the North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii.

The essay, titled Technology for Stewardship and Sovereignty, describes how the RMS advances both environmental stewardship and Indigenous rights, while ensuring the Nations maintain complete control over their data through principles of OCAP (Ownership, Control, Access and Possession)—an information governance standard that sets how data should be collected, protected, used or shared.

Read More: https://coastalfirstnations.ca/resources/regional-monitoring-system-technology-for-stewardship-and-sovereignty/