 Indigeonis data sovereignty focus is not only on the above mentioned data issues. It also asks us to reexamine fundamental questions about power relations in land and data governance, both colonial and post-colonial. This shift towards more open land data is an opportunity for us to consider and respond to these dynamics as well as using the concept of indigenous data sovereignty as a framework to increase equity en participatie in het ekosysteem van die informatie. We mogen de conversatie over data stewardship en datagovernance en het premis dat indigenische communiteiten, in feite al communiteiten, ontwikkeld om te kiekele hoe data about them en hoe die benefit is gavond en gesteld.