Responsible Data Sourcing

Definition

Ensuring all data collection, generation and acquisition processes uphold privacy, autonomy, human rights, community rights, and principles of FAIR, CARE, data sovereignty, and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP).

Examples

• The Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022 (Cth)
• The First Nations Data Governance Framework
• The National AI Centre Responsible AI Toolkit. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Recommendation of the Council on Artificial Intelligence (OECD/LEGAL/0449), 2019.

Indicators

• Number of accredited Data Availability and Transparency (DA&T) users and schemes audited annually
• Inclusion of FAIR/CARE, privacy and rights-based principles in agency data policies
• Presence of ICIP clauses or First Nations data agreements in major data programs

Stocktake

• Framework for Governance of Indigenous Data. National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA). Accessed October 2025. https://www.niaa.gov.au/resource-centre/framework-governance-indigenous-data

• Designing Speech Technologies for Australian Aboriginal English: Opportunities, Risks and Participation. University of Wollongong, The Language Lab. 2024. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715275.3732010

• National Agreement on Closing the Gap – Priority Reform 4: Shared Access to Data and Information at a Regional Level. Joint Council on Closing the Gap / Australian Government. Accessed October 2025. https://www.closingthegap.gov.au/national-agreement/national-agreement-closing-the-gap/6-priority-reform-areas/four

• Indigenous Data Resource Hub. Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). Accessed October 2025. https://www.ardc.edu.au/resource/indigenous-data/

• Good Data. Institute of Network Cultures. January 2019. https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-29-good-data/

• Australian Social Data Observatory (ASDO) (proposed). ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) / Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). Accessed October 2025. https://www.internetobservatory.org.au/