The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance were created to advance the legal principles underlying collective and individual data rights in the context of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). CARE is an acronym that stands for collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, ethics.
While CARE can be considered part of the open dataOpen data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requireme... movement, it aims to build on other standards such as FAIRGuidelines for 'good data management,' which improve the discovery and (re)use of scholarly data by humans and computers... (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) by considering power differentials and historical contexts. The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance are “people and purpose-oriented, reflecting the crucial role of data in advancing Indigenous innovation and self-determination.”