Winnipeg Free Press: U of M strategic research plan: ‘bold’ goals, Indigenous focus

October 9, 2024 —

At the University of Manitoba’s Environmental Conversation Lab, Stéphane McLachlan’s team is very much tuned into the principle of the school’s new five-year strategic research plan that calls for championing research by, for and with Indigenous peoples.

Among other things, it’s built a free digital surveying tool (Our Data Indigenous) that’s being used by more than 30 Indigenous communities for all sorts of data collection — from moose populations to surveying community desires regarding a proposed recreation centre.

The digital app adheres to the First Nations principle of OPAC (ownership, control, access and possession of data).

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Research at the University of Manitoba is partially supported by funding from the Government of Canada Research Support Fund.

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