CURRENT PROGRAMS

Earth Codes is Supporting the 2025 KIIFF Indigenous Film Festival

This year, KIFF received over 100 submissions from 43 ethnic groups/countries. After a rigorous curation process, 34 films were selected for the Official Selection. Among them are Lun Bawang from Malaysia, Harmony in the Grime Valley from Papua, and Rahasia Tanah Mollo, featuring Mama Aleta, a women's activist from East Nusa Tenggara who received the 2013 Goldman Environment Prize and the 2016 Yap Thiem Hien Award. Of course, there are also works by Dayak filmmakers such as Ignited and Awas Ada Ujian. The complete list of Official Selection films can be found here.

In addition to film screenings, there will be a series of side events such as panel discussions, exhibitions, cultural performances, workshops, and a folklore competition. One of the main topics this year will be the issue of disability in the context of indigenous communities in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

“INDIGENOUS ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IS A COMPASS THAT GUIDES US IN UNDERSTANDING THE FRAGILE BALANCE OF ECOSYSTEMS, ENCOURAGING RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE EARTH.” SEPTEMBER, 2025

Our very own Earth Codes Founder, Kamal El-Wattar is a member of the 2025 jury. He believes that the collective knowledge of all human languages and nature holds vital solutions for a regenerative future.

Help the Kogi reclaim and regenerate Kogi ancestral land and traditional knowledge systems. 

Background: The Kogi are an Indigenous peoples living in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Despite centuries of attempted colonization and assimilation, the Kogi have largely maintained their autonomy and biocultural harmony through continued voluntary isolation, their overarching nature-based cosmovision, strong cultural identity, and intricately intertwined spiritual-political governance model over social, economic and natural systems.

Photo credit Aili Pyhälä

Earth Codes announces Fiscal Sponsorship for ICEERS

Since its inception, ICEERS has studied and closely accompanied the complexities and challenges of the globalization of traditional Indigenous medicines, including Western societies’ engagement with such medicines and the cultures they are a part of. This work is emergent, inter-relational, and complex in its very nature.

The Indigenous Data Warrior program is one important part of the growing Earth Codes Data Commons (ECDC).

The Indigenous Data Warriors program envisions a future where all indigenous communities have “data sovereignty” and govern their own data. In this regenerative future, indigenous communities will not only be credited when their knowledge is used in AI tools, but monetary compensation will flow smoothly to those who have stewarded knowledge for millennia; data that is needed for humanity’s collective regenerative future.

Photo credit Tim Rose, Shuar Territory 2016.

Earth Codes Data Commons (ECDC)

How do we train AI on what will restore and maintain a regenerative planet?

Find the data that reflects the reality of nature. Ask permission from those who steward and research it. Prepare it. Make it available to the AI toolmakers. Repeat.

Here are only some of the data areas we are currently researching, acquiring, requesting, licensing, tagging, preparing, etc for the ECDC:

• Biomimicry

• Indigenous Knowledge

• Geology

• Biophysics

• Gaia Theory

• Atmospheric Gas Exchange

• DNA

• Astrobiology

• Foreign Languages