The Importance of Cultural Expertise in Community Ethics

In North America, community ethics boards are being built up around indigenous communities. They decide what research should be done in their community and how it should be done. I think the idea of communities deciding what they want to research is great, but I'm not quite sure how it goes from there to actually being written into a project. The requirement for consent isn't written; people have got to have other issues with it because it brings other issues that you need to deal with. So if there are more interesting ways of getting consent and using information online, it becomes much less pointless.