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 database 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
Community KnowledgeKeeper (CKK) is a customized online mapping and data management system used to support consultation, environmental research, traditional land use studies and archiving. Kwusen has developed the CKK as a means to meet the common data management and mapping needs of Indigenous communities who are faced with complex issues of land and resource management.
GeoKeeper
The GeoKeeper app supports Indigenous communities conducting environmental monitoring and guardianship programs. With the GeoKeeper app, users are able to collect data in the field with customizable survey forms while simultaneously recording GPS tracks in real time. With full offline accessibility and an all-in-one recording device, the GeoKeeper app is the ideal tool for community members conducting research and monitoring programs in remote areas on the land.
NationsConnect
We are excited to unveil this new platform that will provide for a faster, more streamlined approach to consulting Indigenous communities in Canada.
NationsConnect has been built to work with communities that currently run a Community KnowledgeKeeper (CKK) system, 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.