Indigenous Digital Maturity Assessment |
Introduction
A Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA) is a comprehensive approach to evaluating a Nation or organization’s readiness and capacity to use and engage with digital technologies (e.g. software, databases, websites, backup/storage, etc).
This Indigenous Digital Maturity Assessment is a tool designed to support Indigenous data sovereignty – or the assertion of rights and interests in relation to data about the Nation / organization, its territory, and ways of life. This tool is applicable for Indigenous Nations as well as Indigenous organizations such as Tribal Councils or other groups.
Who should do this survey? Ideally someone who knows the Nation and its data well. This may be a Lands & Resources Manager, an Economic Development Officer, an Administration or Operations Manager or anyone else who has strong knowledge of the organization’s readiness and capacity to leverage digital technologies (e.g. software, databases, websites, backup/storage, etc).
The primary goals of the DMA are the following:
1. Understand the Baseline: Establish a baseline of your current digital maturity across the Nation / organization. The DMA assesses technology, skills, processes, procedures, and culture across several areas.
2. Focus on your Strengths as a pathway to addressing challenges: By identifying strengths, an organization can build upon and prioritize initiatives and investments that will have the greatest impact.
3. Inform Decision-Making: The DMA ultimately aims to provide a foundation for data-informed decision-making
This DMA survey will ask you how much you agree with a variety of relevant statements using a 1-5 rating scale. The Assessment takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.
Please read the questions and descriptions carefully and select the answers that mostly closely correspond with your Nation / organization’s current state in its digital journey. Please do your best to select the most accurate 1-5 rating, as these numbers will be used to prepare your digital maturity score at the end. A non-response will be counted as a rating of 1 in the scoring.
Please read the questions and descriptions carefully and select the answers that mostly closely correspond with your Nation / organization’s current state in its digital journey. Please do your best to select the most accurate 1-5 rating, as these numbers will be used to prepare your digital maturity score at the end. A non-response will be counted as a rating of 1 in the scoring.