Similar themes were invoked at the Indigenous Connectivity Summit a couple of weeks ago. https://isoc.live/19667/ One point was that, for far north First Nations, the coldness of their environment, not to mention access to hydro-electric power, gave them a head start on developing their own capacity. One such project is already under way. *YOUTUBE <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocfqOecLPNg&list=PLlg8We3ePxcO6o7wwKyH1ajH2T...> | PODCAST <https://www.patreon.com/posts/139529784> | SUMMARY EN <https://archive.org/download/ics2025/07_KatloTech_Communications.EN.SUMMARY....> / FR <https://archive.org/download/ics2025/07_KatloTech_Communications.FR.RESUME.p...> | TRANSCRIPT <https://archive.org/download/ics2025/07_KatloTech_Communications.EN.TRANSCRIPT.pdf>* Joly On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM Anne ICANN via wsis20 <wsis20@icann.org> wrote:

Readers on this list (and members of the Informal Multi-stakeholder Sounding Board) may be interested in this Report by the Cherokee Nation on AI and Data Sovereignty.

https://www.cherokee.org/media/0ipldvul/task-force-report-on-ai-data-soverei...

There are many good ideas contained in this comprehensive report that may have bearing on WSIS+20 work. (Keep in mind that under US law, the Cherokee Nation is a sovereign State and is not "sub-national" in nature.)

Kind regards, Anne

Anne Aikman-Scalese GNSO Councilor NomCom Non-Voting 2022-2026 anneicanngnso@gmail.com _______________________________________________

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