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title: New web could be Indigenous friendly
description: The World Wide Web and the governors of the Internet are proposing a new web that could be Indigenous and Māori friendly
url: https://www.taiuru.co.nz/2018/10/new-web-could-be-indigenous-friendly/
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slug: new-web-could-be-indigenous-friendly
author: Karaitiana Taiuru
published: 2018-10-04T19:50:51Z
modified: 2026-10-07T20:19:09Z
language: en-NZ
taxonomies:
  category:
    - Cultural appropriation
    - Cyber safety
    - Māori Data Sovereignty and Governance
    - Tech Tikanga Māori
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# New web could be Indigenous friendly

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is leading the design of a new initiative called Solid. The project aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.

Solid could have positive benefits for Indigenous Peoples of the world. The World Wide Web and the governors of the Internet, both internationally and here in New Zealand have  colonised Indigenous Peoples knowledge and assimilated Indigenous representation.

The so called Dark Web offered many solutions for Indigenous online issues, but as it is not mainstream, technically difficult to use and has an unfair reputation as a criminal Internet, it is not suitable to combat digital colonisation and data ownership issues.

Current issues with the world wide web facing Indigenous  People today include:

Data Sovereignty

Data Ownership

Domain Identity Issues

Cultural appropriation and Traditional Knowledge

Online Self governance.

Specific issues that Māori have fought for include:

Lack of representation with Internet governance in New Zealand

Māori had to fight to be recognised with the DNS in .nz and then only partially recognised.

Data sovereignty issues

Usage of language in domains