Led by Indigenous scientists, IndigiData organizes an annual one-week workshop with a: "core goal to introduce data science skills to undergraduates and graduates' and expand the definition of data from Indigenous oral histories, to genetic sequences of soil microbiomes, to traditional worldviews. The Indigi-data workshop centers on Indigenous data sovereignty, the idea that nations have the right to govern the collection, ownership and application of their own data. The movement pushes back on a long history of how researchers have taken Native data without permission, often stigmatizing the communities who participated or disregarding their customs surrounding the dead."

Their work disrupts biocommercialism in its extractive and for-profit use of data without any relationship to the Indigenous communities it is harming through data surveillance.