Q&A: Animikii’s Jeff Ward on #DataBack and what the world can learn from Indigenous tech

Concerns over US economic hostility and threats of annexation have turned sovereignty into a buzzword in Canada. But for Indigenous nations, conversations about sovereignty are nothing new. “What we’ve built within Indigenous communities is now even more relevant to the broad conversation.” Jeff Ward has been at the helm of Animikii , a BC-based national Indigenous tech firm, since he founded the company in 2003.