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  • Analysis and directory of Māori ICT Groups- Contents

    Analysis and directory of Māori ICT Groups- Contents

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    An analysis and directory of Māori ICT groups and individuals designed for easy authorative reference to the myriad of Māori ICT organisations that are often created specifically for one purpose. Introduction The Māori ICT organisations landscape is diverse and un documented which creates confusion or misunderstandings by governments and lobby groups as to what Māori ICT groups

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  • Digital whakapapa, where is it – Digital authorship and founders?

    Digital whakapapa, where is it – Digital authorship and founders?

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The nature of the web and digital technologies leads Māori ICT organisations, kupu hou creation, Māori related software, web sites and digital tools to by default, ignore whakapapa in the digital world. I have already spoken widely about tikanga in the digital world on my site. Māori stories from many generations ago remind us of the early

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  • Māori ICT Organisations analysis and directory

    Māori ICT Organisations analysis and directory

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The Māori ICT organisations landscape is diverse and un documented which creates confusion or misunderstandings by governments and lobby groups as to what Maori ICT groups exist resulting in Internet/ICT consultations not being held with relevant Māori groups or misconceptions from non Māori perspectives being the norm. This has resulted in Maori economic, social and consultation opportunities with the

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  • Māori ICT Groups analysis and directory

    Māori ICT Groups analysis and directory

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The Māori ICT organisations landscape is diverse and un-documented which creates confusion or misunderstandings by governments and lobby groups as to what Māori ICT groups exist, thus resulting in Internet/ICT consultations not being held with relevant Māori groups or misconceptions from non Māori perspectives being the norm. The end result for Māori  is economic, social

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  • Dictionary of Māori Computer and Social Media terms

    Dictionary of Māori Computer and Social Media terms

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Over 374,000 unique headwords with translations from 32 different recorded sources makes this dictionary over six times larger than Ryan Modern Māori Dictionary, with almost 15 times more head words than the Williams dictionary.

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  • Name change for Massy Univesity – historical racism against Māori

    Name change for Massy Univesity – historical racism against Māori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    New Zealand is made up of numerous colonial place and street names, as are organisations and brands. Likewise, there are many place, street, educational institutions and government organisations with Māori names. A Massey academic is suggesting a name change for Massey University – Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa as his research has revealed that its namesake was racist against

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  • Google Translate and NZ society’s stereotype of Māori people

    Google Translate and NZ society’s stereotype of Māori people

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The media article on the blunder of using Google translate by a mayoral candidate created lots of social media discussions that focused only on the tool and its te reo Māori issues and not the subtle racism in the story.   In summary: Hamilton mayoral candidate James Casson wanted to appeal to Māori voters and thought

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  • Social media censorship of traditional moko images

    Social media censorship of traditional moko images

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Media reports censorship of moko images on Facebook and Instagram but some misunderstand which organisation can assist. In one article by Māori Television it states that the Ministry of Culture and Heritage have been approached for comment and it states: Te Kaea is awaiting a response from the Ministry of Culture and Heritage to see whether they will

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  • Disney releases Polynesian skin kids outfit

    Disney releases Polynesian skin kids outfit

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Labeled as a Maui Costume for Kids based on the Disney movie Moana. The costumes are made to look like brown skin with Polynesian tattoos. UPDATED Disney pulls Maui costume 22/09/207  There are a number of issues for Polynesian cultures and for Māori special considerations will need to be considered around the Ta Moko (tattoo) as each ta mako is

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  • Kauamatua threatened with arrest

    Kauamatua threatened with arrest

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Kaumatua Kura Moeahu parliament’s Senior Māori Advisor was threatened with arrest for speaking te reo Māori after a traffic stop in Lower Hutt MāorTV has reported. It is only when the officer noticed Kura’s jacket had a Police related logo on it that the officer was informed by Kura that he is a Police Māori advisory board

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  • Word list of te reo Moriori

    Word list of te reo Moriori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This is not an academic or linguist publication, but a compilation of several historically published sources that contain word lists of Moriori. For full details including sources and an analysis download the publication here. My intention as a researcher was to compile and publish this material which is scattered among many historical publications that are

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  • Māori baby names list

    Māori baby names list

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Over 1300 Maori Baby names; Christian, Mormon and non religious first names and their equivalent English name. Before using a name in the list, you should also check what other meanings are associated with the name. In the Maori language one word may have multiple meanings.

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  • The Māori ICT Report

    The Māori ICT Report

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Māori access to Internet and ICT report has been released which covers Māori engagement in the digital world, including Internet, mobile usage and employment in the ICT industry identifies pathways for Māori to achieve higher incomes and management opportunities in the ICT industry. Māori me te Ao Hangarau 2015 – The Māori ICT Report 2015 was produced

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  • Pokemon Go on the Urupa, Marae – Tapu?

    Pokemon Go on the Urupa, Marae – Tapu?

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Pokémon is a free location-based augmented reality game played on mobile phones which places creatures called Pokemon that can fight each other at randomly selected places including marae, wahi tapu and Urupa. Augmented reality is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment with a computer or other animation that can be seen

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  • Digital colonialism and the hidden issues for Maori today

    Digital colonialism and the hidden issues for Maori today

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    One of the most remote Māori communities in Aotearoa gets broadband Internet says Te Karere. I suspect this will have a number of cultural implications that has yet to be considered. Ruatahuna is not unique for this as it has happened numerous times in rural and urban areas by non Māori organisations and government pushing technology into

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  • Ngai Tahu youth going to Silicon Valley

    Ngai Tahu youth going to Silicon Valley

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Great to see that ten Ngāi Tahu youth are going to Silicon Valley in October for a five-day science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) boot camp an opportunity was provided by Callaghan Innovation and NZQA which is a part of the Callaghan Innovation and NZQA “Āmua Ao: Experience Silicon Valley 2016” programme . Congratulations to

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  • Top 20 Māori baby names for 2015

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The most popular Māori baby names collated by Department of Internal Affairs was names were Maia for girls and Nikau for boys. All names were verified by Te Taura Whiri to be Māori. The list is below. The top 20 names for girls were: 1. Maia 2. Manaia 3. Anahera 4. Ana 5. Aroha 6.

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  • Warning: Twitter spam targeting Māori

    Warning: Twitter spam targeting Māori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The past 48 hours we has seen a large concentrated Twitter spam attack targeting Māori using popular key words and soft pornography. This is the first time Māori has been targeted in a spam campaign on Twitter and there appears to be no real reason or justification for it. On the surface it appears as

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