GCC Indigenous Innovation Initiative Evaluation by Coya Productions Inc

For Community

Tansi, Halu, Boozhoo, Hadih, Hello, Bonjour!

Thank you for sharing your Indigenous Innovation Initiative Story.

Our evaluation is guided by the COYA Agreements:

We are not the product of our circumstances, we are the consequences of our actions, when we:

✨ Contribute Our Gifts
✨ Own Our Actions
✨ Yearn for Growth
✨ Act on Legacy
Your story will help us learn more about:

  1. The strengths and effectiveness of the Indigenous Innovation Initiative program,

  2. The role the Indigenous Innovation Initiative can play in the wider Indigenous Innovation ecosystem, 

  3. How the Indigenous Innovation Initiative can centre Indigenous innovation processes, operate with Indigenous values, identify challenges, and support economic reconciliation

 

✨ Indigenous knowledge is not a resource—it is a relationship. COYA  exists to uphold and protect that relationship for future generations. ✨

🌿 Honoring Sovereignty, Protecting Knowledge, and Working in a Good Way

At COYA, we recognize that Indigenous knowledge, stories, and data are not just information—they are living expressions of sovereignty, identity, and self-determination. We uphold protocols that ensure Indigenous communities retain full ownership, control, access, and possession of their data, while also engaging in ways that reflect deep respect, reciprocity, and relational accountability.

We commit to data protection and privacy compliance through the frameworks of:

📜 OCAP® Principles – Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession of Indigenous data.

🔗 Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) – Ensuring explicit, informed decision-making at every stage.

🌎 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) – Upholding the rights of Indigenous peoples to maintain, control, and protect their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and intellectual property (Article 31).

🔗 All Indigenous data is stored securely (in what is today called Canada), with transparent agreements defining its use and access. No data is shared beyond its original purpose without explicit, documented consent from knowledge holders and communities. Whenever possible we do not collect and store data for our clients or those they are behooved to serve. We see our role as making the exchange possible, but having no ownership over what is exchanged.


🤝 This is our Coya Indigenous Wisdom Sharing Agreement we use to put this commitment into practice.

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