academy
Sovereign Infrastructure: Technical Foundations.
Sovereign Infrastructure: Technical Foundations — ten modules and fifty-nine sub-modules on the machinery behind artificial intelligence, eight hours and forty minutes end to end. No technical background is assumed.
Funding narrative — Q2
v14
Program delivery — reporting period two
A. Point — confirm the allocation figure
Records/Funding
Locked for review — version history retained
the course
Understanding AI infrastructure.
The supply chain, the power, the law, the money, and the decisions a Nation has to make about all of it. Ten modules and fifty-nine sub-modules, eight hours and forty minutes, each one able to be taken on its own. No technical background is assumed.
01
Read the infrastructure
What a data centre is as a building, what a model does, and how to read the figures in a proposal.
02
Govern the data
Privacy law, residency, OCAP®, classification, AI policy, and the security posture underneath them.
03
Assess developers and vendors
Developers, vendors, equity structures, approvals, consultation, and a decision record that holds.
04
Resource the work
Participation structures, agreement oversight, and the staffing and funding that sustain the work.
use cases
The ten modules.
Fifty-nine sub-modules across ten, eight hours and forty minutes end to end. Each module can be taken on its own, and each one ends in something you draft for your own organization.
Digital Infrastructure & AI Systems
Read a data centre proposal: minerals, silicon, racks, power, cooling, networks and models.
Data Governance & Privacy Law
Which statute reaches which activity, what residency requires, and how to classify your holdings.
Vendor & Developer Due Diligence
Interconnection position, capitalization, equity structure, resource footprint and data handling.
Institutional Capacity & Procurement
Competitive procurement, the vendor lifecycle, funding streams, staffing and regional aggregation.
Agreement Administration & Oversight
Audit rights, reporting cadence, remedies, insolvency protections and monitoring over the whole deal.
Value Chain, Energy & Participation
Material intensity, generation and interconnection, capital instruments and participation models.
Consultation, Consent & Ratification
Notification, confidentiality carve-outs, the member information package and ratification mechanics.
Land Tenure, Permits & Development Review
Four tenure regimes, assessment triggers, every permit and its holder, and what gives review force.
Cybersecurity & Operational Resilience
The routes that actually cause loss, least-privilege access, restore testing and the notification clock.
AI Systems & AI Governance
What a system does with your data, how deployment options differ, and which uses need a human.
who it is written for
Open to anyone.
First Nations, Tribal Councils, policy and technical organizations, provincial, territorial and national organizations, economic development corporations, and individuals — students, entrepreneurs, business owners. There are no enrolment conditions. What changes between them is what the material gets used for.
Institutions and organizations
Members ask you what to do about these projects. The standard you publish becomes the one dozens of communities adopt.
Individuals
This work is being contracted out because almost nobody in the sector holds the knowledge. That is a career, and it is a business.
the credential
Assessed on what you produce.
Roughly nine hundred and forty assessment items sit behind the course, and none of the ones that matter are multiple choice.
Marked to a rubric
Module assessments carry written items of one hundred and fifty to three hundred words, with the exemplar released on submission.
A capstone to Council
The program ends in a vetting memo to Chief and Council of twelve hundred to fifteen hundred words, marked by a person.
also here
Open to read without enrolling.
Shorter formats for the questions that arrive between one module and the next.
Blog
Analysis of what is moving in Indigenous data governance, AI policy and infrastructure.
Webinars and workshops
Single-question sessions scheduled around Council and board calendars, and working sessions run with your own staff against your own material.
the format
Six beats per sub-module.
A cold open on a real document, the teaching, two checks along the way, one activity on your own material, five graded items, and something to take away.
Allocations FY2026
Sheet 1
Programme
Budget
Committed
Housing
412,000
388,140
Lands & Resources
260,500
191,220
Health services
305,000
305,000
Education
178,400
96,850
Total
1,155,900
981,210
Figures drawn from live records — no re-entry
Nine minutes
Video is capped, and the longer sub-modules split at a natural seam.
One activity
A calculation, a classification, a document teardown or a clause redraft.
Five graded items
Eighty percent to pass, three attempts, re-randomised each time.
One take-away
A checklist, worksheet, conversion card or clause library, written for someone who has not taken the course.
enrolment
One module at a time.
The introduction is free and open to anyone. After it, modules are taken one at a time, so a Nation can start with the one that matches the decision in front of it rather than committing to the whole program.
Bought one at a time
Five hundred dollars a module. Take the one you need now, or work through all ten in order.
Badged as you go
Each of the fifty-nine sub-modules carries its own record of completion, so partial progress is still evidence.
built in
The work stays in-house.
The aim is not that a Nation evaluates one deal well. It is that the Nation holds the standing capacity to evaluate every deal after it.
Developers can be vetted
Staff can read a proposal and name what is missing from it — the power source, the water figure, the grid allocation.
vetting
Equity claims can be tested
A stated majority position can be met with the three questions that determine whether it is funded, carried or financed.
equity
Policy is written in-house
You draft your own AI use, data storage and data governance instruments rather than adopting someone else’s.
policy
next step
Bring this into your Nation.
The course runs for a single Nation, for a Tribal Council, or across a region.