The right to information is comprised of eight dimensions — accessibility, availability, quality, stability, ethics, cultural appropriateness, agency and usability — that together provide individuals with information sovereignty. Information sovereignty exists when people are part of a healthy and culturally appropriate information ecosystem, in which quality and diverse information is available, accessible and stable and it is collected, stored, managed and disseminated with ethics, meeting peoples’ information needs and preferences for an open, inclusive and plural public sphere. Information sovereignty is a concept that seeks to empower individuals and communities in a volatile, ever-changing digital context, so that they can access and apply meaningful information in decision making concerning their rights and critical information needs with agency and autonomy. Information sovereignty in relation to Indigenous peoples and their specific rights illustrates the importance of attending to the different dimensions of the right to information.
