Village Governance CourseSovereign deliberation records & agentic governance
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Free self-paced course · CC BY 4.0

Governance risk begins with the record.

This course equips boards, trustees, committees, and governance teams to understand why non-sovereign deliberation records create governance, legal, cultural, and operational risk — and how a sovereign-record architecture changes the organisation's risk posture. Didactic modules are completed individually; group exercises are reserved for collective judgment.

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Course map

Eight didactic modules plus a capstone. Each module combines teaching notes, external reading, discussion topics at the end of every subsection, a short self-check quiz, and — where relevant — an interactive case simulation that mirrors the real deliberation tools.

Module 1Why the governance record matters Module 2What indigenous data sovereignty adds Module 3The governance risk of non-sovereign records Module 4How sovereign records work Module 5Village as a sovereign governance environment Module 6Agentic governance & the limits of automation Module 7Deliberation records as immutable memory Module 8Risk assessment & organisational migration CapstoneRisk, architecture & action — group exercises

How the course works

Two layers

  • Self-paced modules — short, board-level teaching units completed individually.
  • Facilitated group exercises — collective workshop activities applying the concepts to your own governance setting.

What you'll leave with

  • Board-level language for sovereign vs non-sovereign deliberation risk.
  • A working grasp of immutable provenance, policy-carrying records, and proof chains.
  • A method for evaluating your records, AI workflows, and platform dependencies.
  • A pilot hypothesis you can take to your board.

The group exercises can be run inside a licensed Village course environment, where participants use the actual sovereign-deliberation tools the course describes.

Resources

Supporting materials for self-paced learners and facilitators.

Facilitator guideHow to run the course & the capstone session Worksheets & templatesPrintable templates for every group exercise GlossaryKey terms, including te reo Māori vocabulary

Sector lenses

Optional overlays that ground the core modules in a specific governance setting. Complete the eight modules, then apply the lens that fits.

Boards & corporate governanceBoard packs, minutes, dissent, delegated authority Health & care governanceEthics panels, sensitive data, clinical governance Public sector & CrownInquiries, official information, statutory records Iwi, rūnanga & Māori governanceCollective authority, taonga, Te Tiriti, kāhui consensus