The Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) has established the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance as an important complement to the FAIR principles for data management.

The Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD) is deeply concerned about the increasingly polemic debate that has resulted from the invitation of Achille Mbembe as a guest speaker at the Ruhr-Triennale 2020. We are committed to equal, unprejudiced international cooperation, especially with academics in and from the African continent, in accordance with the VAD