Innovative Services
The world is changing fast and Indigenous governments and organizations deserve partners who are thinking ahead. Wigwas Consulting offers two forward-looking service areas designed to help navigate new and emerging challenges and opportunities.
Artificial Intelligence Policy & Awareness
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how governments, institutions, and industries operate and Indigenous governments and organizations need to be at that table, not catching up to decisions already made. Wigwas Consulting can support you in understanding, engaging with, and shaping the AI landscape on your own terms.
This means building foundational AI literacy across leadership and community, developing Nation-specific AI policies that reflect Indigenous data sovereignty, community values, and self-determination, and ensuring that communities, nations and organizations are active voices in the broader policy conversations happening at the federal and international level around AI governance.
AI is not a distant issue, it is already affecting how Indigenous data is collected, used, and monetized. We can help you get ahead of it.
AI awareness building and community education sessions
AI policy development grounded in Indigenous data sovereignty principles
Review and analysis of federal and provincial AI policy and its implications for Indigenous peoples
Guidance on ethical AI use within Nation or organizational governance and administration
Advocacy support for Indigenous participation in national AI policy development
International Relations, Global Policy & Migrant Community Partnerships
Indigenous communities do not exist in isolation and the forces shaping the world are shaping Indigenous communities too. Global migration patterns, international conflicts, trade policy, and economic shifts all have direct and tangible impacts on Indigenous peoples and territories. Yet Indigenous governments and organizations are rarely supported in understanding or responding to these forces.
Wigwas Consulting helps First Nations governments step confidently into the international sphere, building relationships with global Indigenous networks, developing partnerships with migrant and newcomer communities, and gaining the knowledge and tools needed to understand how global issues land locally.
Drawing on direct experience at the intersection of Indigenous and migrant relations, we bring a unique and grounded perspective to this work, one that recognizes both the distinct rights of Indigenous peoples and the shared experiences of displaced and marginalized peoples navigating colonial systems.
International Indigenous network building and relationship development
Partnership development between First Nations and migrant and newcomer communities
Global policy analysis, understanding how international trade, migration, and conflict affect your community and how you can respond
Workshops on Indigenous and migrant relations for Nation leadership and community
Support for Indigenous engagement with international bodies and forums including the UN
Community education on global issues and their local impacts