Digital Solutions
Over the last decade, Kwusen has worked with over thirty Indigenous communities to understand their data management, archiving, consultation tracking, and mapping needs. In response to the often overwhelming amount of paperwork and media produced from both community-based research and engagement with industry and government, we have developed several digital tools to support managing this work.
Community KnowledgeKeeper (CKK) is a map-based research application as well as a consultation tracking and management tool with an integrated response letter system
GeoKeeper is an app designed to support Indigenous communities in conducting fieldwork
NationsConnect is a consultation submission portal to make sending complete digital referral packages easier.
These software solutions work in conjunction to provide Indigenous nations with a comprehensive suite that integrates research data, field data and consultation information into a single repository with analytic tools and reporting.
Community KnowledgeKeeper
The Community KnowledgeKeeper (CKK) is a centralized system where First Nations can store all of their spatial and research data and query this data in relation to consultation and land management decision making. It also provides for a community archive of linguistic, cultural, and historical knowledge and media.
GeoKeeper
GeoKeeper is an app that Indigenous monitors and guardians can use both on and offline to collect field data while out on their lands for research and monitoring purposes. With GeoKeeper, users are able to collect data in the field with customizable survey forms while simultaneously recording GPS tracks in real time.
NationsConnect
NationsConnect is a consultation portal designed to streamline consultation submissions from government organizations and industry proponents to Indigenous communities. NationsConnect simplifies the consultation process by providing a single portal where government and industry can securely upload and track consultation information with multiple Indigenous communities and nations. The data from NationsConnect syncs directly to multiple CKKs, but also allows for communities that do not have a CKK to receive consultation notifications from potential proponents and government organizations. In this model, non-CKK communities would be alerted by email to a new submission impacting their territory and they would be able to respond via NationsConnect in a simplified and standardized way.