AI-Assisted Performance Framework Builder for Indigenous Data Sovereignty

Planning & Decision-making

What it collects

Operational data

Anonymized data

Program and service data provided by GC employees, including existing performance metrics, program objectives, and data governance requirements, used to build OCAP-compliant performance frameworks and data plans.

Government of Canada AI Register — Performance Advisor

Run by: Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
Where: No fixed location
Kept: Not stated by the Helpful Places.
Shared with: Accountable organization

What it is for

Planning & Decision-making

Performance Advisor is an AI tool used by Government of Canada employees to build performance frameworks and data plans that comply with OCAP principles (Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession), a set of standards for First Nations data sovereignty. The tool helps structure how Indigenous data is collected, managed, and governed. Users should be aware that the system generates planning documents that may shape how data about Indigenous communities is handled.

What it collects and what happens to it

Data taken in

Operational data

Anonymized data

Program and service data provided by GC employees, including existing performance metrics, program objectives, and data governance requirements, used to build OCAP-compliant performance frameworks and data plans.

Government of Canada AI Register — Performance Advisor

Processing

Language Models

The system likely uses a language model to generate structured performance framework documents and data plans from user inputs, though the specific model or architecture is not disclosed in the register entry.

Government of Canada AI Register — Performance Advisor

What it does

Creating (Generative AI)

Human decides

The tool generates performance framework documents and data plans based on user inputs and OCAP principles. GC employees review and approve the generated frameworks before they are adopted.

Government of Canada AI Register — Performance Advisor

Outputs

Generated content

Anonymized data

Performance framework documents and data plans that are OCAP compliant, produced for GC employees to guide Indigenous data collection and governance decisions.

Government of Canada AI Register — Performance Advisor

Run by

Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)

Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) is the Government of Canada department deploying the Performance Advisor tool for use by GC employees to build OCAP-compliant performance frameworks and data plans.

Government of Canada AI Register — Performance Advisor

Built by

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

Kept for

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

Shared with

Available to the accountable organization

Performance frameworks and data plans generated by the system are available to Indigenous Services Canada and the GC employees who use the tool.

Stored

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

How to read the colours

Can it identify you?

Anonymized data: Data about people with the link to who is broken. Stripped of identifiers, blurred, aggregated, or noised so this system can’t reasonably tie a record back to an individual.
Pseudonymous data: Each person’s data is tied to a token (hash, ID, template) that lets this system recognise the same person across events, but the token itself doesn’t reveal a name. Reidentification is possible with extra information.
Identifiable data: The data either contains a direct identifier (name, address, account name, recognisable face or voice, plate number) or carries a token this system uses to look up legal identity during processing.

Who completes the loop?

Human decides: This mode suggests; a person decides what to do next. The AI is always advisory — a human is in the loop on every decision. Example: a triage tool ranks cases for a clinician who chooses which to see first.
Human executes: This mode decides; a person carries out the result. Example: an optimizer plans the day’s trash-collection routes, and drivers run them.
Autonomous: This mode decides and acts on its own. No person reviews each decision or carries out the resulting action.

Definitions from the DTPR standard. Amber is about your data, violet about who decides. The fuller the shape and the deeper the colour, the more identifying the data or the less a person is involved.

What you can do

Ask about this system

Questions go to the Helpful Places, not the vendor.

Your rights

Right to Algorithmic TransparencyGC employees using this tool and Indigenous communities whose data governance is shaped by its outputs are entitled to understand how the AI generates performance frameworks and data plans. For information about how this system works, contact Indigenous Services Canada.
Right to Be Informed of AI UseGC employees who use Performance Advisor are informed they are working with an AI tool. Indigenous communities whose data may be governed by frameworks produced by this system should be informed that AI was used in generating those frameworks.

Risks and safeguards

Civil liberties harmAI-generated frameworks may not adequately reflect the specific sovereignty and self-determination rights of individual First Nations communities, potentially producing OCAP-labelled outputs that do not genuinely centre Indigenous data control.Safeguard: The system is designed to be OCAP compliant by construction; GC employees review outputs before adoption. Engagement with Indigenous communities and their data governance experts in validating outputs is recommended.