Selected
2024 Indigenous Communities Fellowship

Consultation Corral

Use open-data and machine learning to advance our position in Tribal Consultation

Team Leader
Elise Blasingame

Solution Pitch


The Problem

Federal agencies are supposed to facilitate Tribal Consultation opportunities on a number of critical policies, but in reality the process is often delayed and difficult to navigate. These rules control the implementation of U.S. policies impacting the 3.7 million Native people and 574 tribes in the United States.

The Solution

Corral is an online portal where tribes and Native advocates can access tribal consultation opportunity information in real time, and search for information in a way that is intuitive to tribes. Our process automates the work of tribal governments and Native-led advocacy organizations to pull together these opportunities to a say on U.S. policy impacting tribal communities. Using existing API, we can pull this meta-data and use machine learning to automate the workflow. Tribal users would then be able to search consultation opportunities by date, agency, policy area, tribe(s) invited, and other search criteria determined in our focus group process. This would save tremendous amounts of time and resources, allowing tribes to focus on the business of running our Native governments and formulating impactful comments for the proposed rules that impact our people. Corral is an open-government project geared at making tribal consultation communication and existing data work for us.

Stats

Tribal Consultation opportunities affect policies and programs implemented for 3.7 million Native people and 574 tribes in the United States


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Organization Type: 

Not registered as any organization

Headquarters: 

Atlanta, United States

Stage: 

Concept

Working In: 

United States

Solution Team:
Elise Blasingame
Elise Blasingame