Indigenous data sovereignty in rapidly changing international data and research landscape - challenges and opportunities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Bio
Andrew Sporle is an Honorary Associate-Professor of Statistics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, the National Contact Point (Māori) for the EU's Horizon Europe Research Fund and the Managing Director of iNZight Analytics – a Māori-owned research and data analytics company. He is a board member for several Māori or indigenous research committees, advisor on government data and research initiatives in Aotearoa, Australia and in the Pacific, co-lead on for iNZight statistical software and on the executive of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity. He was part of New Zealand’s Covid modelling team that won the Prime Minister’s Science Prize and was a founding member of the Māori data sovereignty group (Te Mana Raraunga), the Global Indigenous Data Alliance and the Māori stomach cancer project that discovered the genetic basis for Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer. Previously Andrew was the inaugural Māori Manager at the Health Research Council of NZ and initiated the Māori research responsiveness and workforce development initiatives that are running 3 decades later. www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-sporle/