CARE Principles

A set of people-and-purpose-oriented principles for Indigenous data governance developed by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance — Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics — designed to complement the more technical FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Where FAIR emphasises the openness and mechanics of data sharing, CARE asserts that data governance must also align with the self-determination, authority, and collective well-being of the communities the data describes. In accessibility and disability justice scholarship, CARE has been adopted as a vocabulary for reasoning about who holds authority over research, datasets, and algorithmic systems that affect disabled people.