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  • Māori experiences with online harmful or inappropriate content

    Māori experiences with online harmful or inappropriate content

    The Classifications Office released a report called “What we’re watching New Zealanders’ views about what we see on screen and online”. This is an analysis of the Māori findings with a conclusion identifying some possible solutions.

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  • Tikanga Associated with Biological Samples

    An analysis of traditional Tikanga Māori associated with research, storage and analysis of Māori biological samples including DNA.

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  • Indigenising DNA

    Indigenising what DNA is using Mātauranga Māori and cosmology whakapapa.

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  • What is a Taonga Species

    Comprehensive definition of what a Taonga Species is using mātauranga Māori and cosmology

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  • tikanga-tawhito-tikanga-hou-guidelines-for-dna-research-storage

    As opposed to conforming to Eurocentric values and academic comfort levels, this guideline is the first published bioethics guideline encapsulating traditional and modern mātauranga Māori, to explore ethical research & storage of Māori genetic samples. This is the complete guideline with the ISBN: 978-0-9582597-8-1.   Similar to the New Zealand Health system overhaul (2022) to…

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  • Tikanga Tawhito Tikanga Hou – Literature Reviews

    Literature reviews of current Māori ethics and frameworks associated with research, storage and analysis of Māori DNA and biological samples

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  • Consumer Guidelines for Māori Non Fungible Tokens

    Consumer Guidelines for Māori Non Fungible Tokens

    As with any new technology there are positives and often more negatives for Māori and other Indigenous Peoples protecting their traditional knowledge from abuse, appropriation and theft. In the short time that Non Fungible Tokens have been created, traded and advertised online there is a large amount of cultural appropriation and stolen images being transformed…

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  • Māori Data Sovereignty and Domain Names

    Māori Data Sovereignty and Domain Names

    Can non-Māori can use the New Zealand Domain Name maori.nz? As the primary author of the application that lobbied InternetNZ to create maori.nz domain name in 2000, I say yes. Further information about Māori Data Sovereignty is in Compendium of Māori Data Sovereignty. Anyone anywhere in the world can register a maori.nz domain. But, only…

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  • Compendium of Māori Data Sovereignty VERSION 2

    Compendium of Māori Data Sovereignty VERSION 2

    Māori Data Sovereignty has evolved over the past 6 years while commercial and government agencies are now seeking solutions and information. This is a compilation of all of the authors writings using only updated information. DEFINITION OF MĀORI DATA Māori as with many other Indigenous Peoples are one with the land and the water. Without…

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  • Tikanga: Cell phone on the table you eat from

    Tikanga evolves is a common term. Often this means people who were not brought up with mātauranga creating new tikanga while traditional values are forgotten or not transitioned into evolving society. This article discusses several common tikanga about the tapu nature of the head, not putting food on your head, not sitting on a table…

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  • Māori Covid immunisation Data to be shared and the  Sovereignty issues

    Māori Covid immunisation Data to be shared and the Sovereignty issues

    The High Court decision that the Ministry of Health must hand over Māori Data to Whānau Ora is a significant and swift stride towards Māori Data Sovereignty that has left Māori and the government exposed. Ideally, the government and academia would have been engaging with Māori groups and Iwi to recognise Māori/hapū/marae/Iwi Data Sovereignty and…

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  • Marae Data Sovereignty Data Sets

    Marae Data Sovereignty Data Sets

    This article introduces new datasets of Marae names that will form the basis of Marae data sovereignty for database administrators that recognise Marae rights and valuable information to navigate the whole Māori Data Sovereignty landscape. The data sets are available from https://github.com/ktaiuru Introduction Marae/Rūnanga Data Sovereignty refers to the inherent rights and interests of Marae/Rūnanga…

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  • Māori Data Sovereignty Principles – Updated

    Māori Data Sovereignty Principles – Updated

    Update: All Māori Data Sovereignty posts have been combined and updated into a Compendium of Māori Data Sovereignty – https://www.taiuru.co.nz/compendium-of-maori-data-sovereignty/  These widely recognised principles are from Te Mana Rauranga and have been slightly modified to recognise tikanga Māori and all of Māori societies, modern and traditional and to ensure that the principles are future proofed for…

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  • Māori Data Sovereignty Commitment Statements

    Māori Data Sovereignty Commitment Statements

    Update: All Māori Data Sovereignty posts have been combined and updated into a Compendium of Māori Data Sovereignty – https://www.taiuru.co.nz/compendium-of-maori-data-sovereignty/  To assist organisations to make public statements that both recognise and enact the instruments that protect Māori interests with Māori Data, all organisations should create public commitment statements that are committed to by the whole organisation.…

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  • Why I support a dual name for New Zealand

    Aotearoa, while not an original name for New Zealand, has been popularised and is commonly used as the Māori name for the North, South and Stewart Islands. For this reason, I support the dual name being proposed by the Māori Party, to be an official dual name for New Zealand. It is important to note…

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  • Tikanga with face swapping filters and deep fakes

    Using traditional Māori knowledge, I discuss cultural appropriateness of deep fakes and face swapping filters. Some of this discussion is also applicable to Facial Recognition systems. Apart form Māori, this article may be of interest to developers and organizations with Facial Recognition Systems. It is against tikanga Māori (customary beliefs) to have your image on…

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  • Online safety research ignores Māori

    Online safety research ignores Māori

    The latest research report Global Kids Online: Digital Parenting Strategies and Behaviours of New Zealand Parents, published by NetSafe interviewed parents of children aged 9-17 about the prevalence of different practices to influence or mediate children’s internet use. Yey! Māori and Pacifika were under represented in the research, Further contributing to the increasing discrimination and…

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  • Kaitiakitanga Māori Data Sovereignty Licences

    Kaitiakitanga Māori Data Sovereignty Licences

    This article introduces six new licence to protect Māori Data and recognise Māori Data Sovereignty rights today and for the next 1000 years. Māori Data Sovereignty principles are also updated to reflect Māori society and the Social Licence is reviewed as not appropriate for Māori and Indigenous Data.     Citations This article can be…

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