DARE creates social and intellectual space to examine, build and develop anti-colonial, anti-racist digital and geospatial methods, tools, technologies, pedagogies, capacities, practices and policies, with particular focus on heritage and social sciences. We are located in the Arts and Sciences building at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, on the unceded, ancestral lands of the syilx/Okanagan people.
Dr Neha Gupta, one of four directors on the FAIR+CARE cultural heritage network, participated in the first in-person workshop held in California, US. She leads a working group that focuses on the implementation of FAIR+CARE practices in the heritage sector, and in the development of an assessment tool and resources that Tribes, institutions and researchers can use in their everyday practice.