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  • Māori Experiences of Online Hate Speech

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This article extracts Māori specific information from the NetSafe report titled “Personal Experiences of Online Hate Speech and offers personal analysis of their results and my personal experience with online hate. I have critiqued the definitions used int he survey. That critique is at the end of the article. Māori appear to be statistically better off

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  • BP New Zealand cultural appropriation of Māori

    BP New Zealand cultural appropriation of Māori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    BP New Zealand appears to have used Māori culture without consultation, offering Fair Trade coffee that will help you to become more fertile by placing the Polynesian recognised deity of fertility Tiki in the corner of it marketing material. Moreover, the Tiki used in the marketing appears to be a West coast of the North Island

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  • 5th Craft Beer brewer removes offensive Beer Label

    5th Craft Beer brewer removes offensive Beer Label

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Belgium Beer brewer Brussels Beer Project removed their offensive beer label within hours of the New Zealand media publishing concerns at the cultural appropriation. This is now the 5th craft brewer this year that has removed offensive beer labels after my complaints. This case differs from the others. In this instance the New Zealand media

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  • Cyber Safety issues for Maori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Culture and Context in Online Safety Session at the Crossroads. Notes from the panel discussion I was involved with at the NetSafety conference Crossroads.   The latest Internet Safety research from NetSafe shows that Māori are again over represented in negative statistics, this time for being victims of online abuse in its various forms. On the

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  • New web could be Indigenous friendly

    New web could be Indigenous friendly

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    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

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  • Māori teens are more likely to be victims of online predators

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Māori teens, especially girls and those with a disability are at higher risk than any other ethnic group in New Zealand to be harassed and to receive unsolicited nude images. The latest NetSafe report shows that Māori are more likely to be harassed online via unwanted communications. The most common types of unwanted digital communications

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  • Can te reo Māori be digitally colonised?

    Can te reo Māori be digitally colonised?

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Voice recognition of te Reo Māori and automated Maori translations via a computational device is colonisation and commercialisation no matter if by Māori or by tauiwi. Our traditional stories warn us of such recordings of the voice. Hence, I believe the reason why our learned old people shied away from recordings of the person and

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  • Introduction to Māori Cultural Considerations with Genetics

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This paper discusses the implications of traditional tikanga Māori practices with Genetic scientific research. Objectives There are four primary objectives for this research: To show a direct relationship between traditional Māori tikanga and cosmology to explain why tikanga is applicable to genomic research. To review the current guidelines for dealing with Māori and genomics. To

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  • Fourth culturally offensive UK brewery apologises

    Fourth culturally offensive UK brewery apologises

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    28 hours after writing a public tweet (DM UK media) and a detailed article on my web site accusing UK brewery Rammy Craft of ignoring correspondence regarding culturally offensive beer label, they reply with an explanation and apology. The email reply is copied in full is below. It is frustrating that it took 7 weeks, seeking

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  • Culturally offensive UK brewery ignores requests

    Culturally offensive UK brewery ignores requests

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Rammy Craft Ales, a UK brewer producer of the beer labeled Flaori Maori have ignored several communications over the past 7 weeks that their beer label is likely to be offensive to Maori. This is the fourth UK brewery I have approached this year, and the only brewery who has not communicated and or rectified

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  • Artificial Intelligence and Māori

    Artificial Intelligence and Māori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    I was interviewed to contribute a Māori perspective to the The Artificial Intelligence Forum of New Zealand (AIFNZ) inaugural report. It appears as though only my statement was published with no acknowledgements. In the whole report Māori is only considered in the  Part Three: AI and Society, Artificial Intelligence Shaping a Future New Zealand. The

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  • Third UK Brewer removes culturally offensive label

    Third UK Brewer removes culturally offensive label

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    A third UK brewery in the past few months has removed offensive to Māori beer labels and apologised after being made aware of the fact. As with the other two cases to date, I used the same letter I originally wrote and modified the names to suit the company and the beer brand. As in

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  • Culturally offensive UK brewery – honest mistake

    Culturally offensive UK brewery – honest mistake

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    I was approached by whanau in the UK about the Whakatu beer logo (see below). I was asked if I could/would do anything as I have has some success in the past with such cultural appropriation. After looking at Exmoor marketing document, I agreed. The following images are from the web, not the marketing document.

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  • Tikanga Māori considerations with digital apps

    Tikanga Māori considerations with digital apps

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This analysis uses two apps offered by Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and looks at their tikanga and privacy issues. The purpose of the article is to raise awareness of traditional knowledge being used to create new ideas to attract youth Māori to new initiatives such as education and being proud to be Māori. Their third

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  • UK Craft beer removes offensive to Māori material

    UK Craft beer removes offensive to Māori material

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    A craft brewery in a small town in England, branded a small batch of their beer NZ Pale Ale with an image that is likely to be offensive to a large population of Māori. Within hours of raising the issue with the Managing Director, the company apologized and removed all of the material from their

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  • Taking on the international conglomerate and succeeding

    Taking on the international conglomerate and succeeding

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    After writing my story about Huggies New Zealand (owned by international company Kimberly-Clark Corporation) and their incorrect and offensive baby names advise on their web site, I contacted Radio Waatea who very professionally and neutrally interviewed me on the topic on March 08 . I too was cautious with my wording on this very serious matter.

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  • Huggies New Zealand – culturally offensive with Māori baby names

    Huggies New Zealand – culturally offensive with Māori baby names

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    HuggiesNZ a trusted brand for new parents is an example of a corporation discriminating against Māori with little or no disregard to the long term implications for individuals, cultures and laws. Their advice, if followed, could cause irreversible damage to children and parents. Huggies respond here. Prior to December 29 2008, or over 10 years prior to

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  • Indigenous Peoples access to the new digital Terra Nullius

    Indigenous Peoples access to the new digital Terra Nullius

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This research shows that there is a lack of access to Internet and infrastructure by Indigenous Peoples of Alaska, New Mexico and Hawai’i and proves that the Internet is a digital Terra Nullius where colonizers have systemically obstructed access and denied equitable representation to Sovereign nations of: Alaska, New Mexico and the Indigenous Peoples of

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