Ambassadors & Mentors - ICANN61

Lilian Ivette de Luque Bruges (Global Indigenous Ambassador) 

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Chyloe Healy (Global Indigenous Ambassador) is from the Kainai First Nation in Southern Alberta, Canada and resides in Calgary, Alberta. Her nation has the largest land mass within Canada and is part of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Chloe graduated from Mount Royal University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in General Science with a minor in Biology. Currently, she works for the Alberta First Nations Information Governance Centre as a data analyst. The Centre has a clear mandate to use research and information collected from Alberta First Nation communities in manners that will truly benefit the health and well-being of First Nations. It strives to partner with entities that seek mutually beneficial relationships with First Nations through processes that respect First Nation jurisdiction over research and data and to own, protect, and control how their information is collected, used and disclosed. Her role as an analyst is to work closely with First Nations communities to aid in the organization, interpretation, and dissemination of data collected. I also promote and aid First Nations communities to create safe ethical space with institutions pertaining to their data, where communities have greater control over who has access to their data for research purposes. Part of her role is to work with First Nation people to promote data sovereignty and advocate for sustainable and transformative research. Lastly, Chloe works diligently to promote and help First Nation communities to strengthen their capacity for better data management.

First Nation communities within Canada have unique relationships with the federal government, as each community is identified as its own sovereign nation. As being a part of a highly-connected country, many are unaware that First Nation communities are not experiencing the same level of access to the internet and subsequently information. In Chloe's own work, there are noticeable differences and gaps in the quality of data collected within First Nations communities. Therefore she is very interested in the necessity to provide equity for access to information within underserved communities. It has become her personal project to understand how this inequity can be alleviated. Moreover, it has become her passion to find innovative ways to begin to build information governance capacity for First Nation communities within Canada and to learn from other nations on how to overcome information poverty. In addition, being from an oral society one of her interests is the issue of intellectual property as their stories are collectively owned by the community, however access is a transferred right that happens between Elders or Knowledge holders and community members and happens mostly in ceremony. Therefore, as there is a more demand for digitizing everything she wants to know how to respectfully help her people keep the integrity of their stories, while also protecting them. 

“I am very humbled and grateful to be chosen as the Global Indigenous Ambassador. I am so excited to gain insights and network with so many that have similar lived experiences to Canadian First Nations and the obstacles we face overcoming information poverty. Moreover, I am honoured that I can share my Blackfoot worldview on a global platform.”