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  • Māori Children online safety statistics analysis

    Māori Children online safety statistics analysis

    NetSafe released their second Ngā taiohi matihiko o Aotearoa – New Zealand Kids Online. The research analyses New Zealand children’s experiences of online risks and their perceptions of harm. Two milestones for Māori. One ‘Kia ora’ is spelled orthographically correct this time (also AirNZ has rectified this too) removing a distraction. I believe this is…

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  • Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT

    Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT

    Author: Karaitiana Taiuru Published: May 04, 2020 ISBN: 978-0-9582615 ISBN: 0-9582597-6-3 (Digital) Download Citation: (Taiuru, K. 2020. Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT. Retrieved from http://www.taiuru.Maori.nz/TiritiEthicalGuide).   Copyright © Copyright Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT by Karaitiana Taiuru…

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  • macrons in .nz domain names

    macrons in .nz domain names

    This blog post is an update to my June 05 2011 post “Registering a domain name with a macron“. Since July 26, 2010 in New Zealand, all authorised .nz registrars have to be able to register a .nz domain name with a macron. Not all offer this service though. This type of domain is called…

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  • Māori Cultural Appropriation

    Māori Cultural Appropriation

    I was recently interviewed about Cultural Appropriation for an AUT Bachelor of Communication Studies paper about Intercultural Communication. The first part of the interview was via email, then video. I feel that this information may be useful to others, so I am publishing it. 1: Karaitiana, you have spent many years challenging the use of inappropriate…

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  • Online learning and tikanga Māori

    This article is for Whānau, Māori: students, teachers and academics. The same principles can be applied to working remotely online. I have recently heard it stated that online learning is not tika, it is not right and that it is not our tikanga as our tikanga is kanohi ki kanohi, face to face. This article…

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  • Karakia or cultural appropriation

    Karakia or cultural appropriation

    This article is about karakia in post-colonial New Zealand and introduced religious influences that have changed Māori cultural beliefs and practices. This is not an article about religions and what religion is the more appropriate. Every person has a right to practice their own religious beliefs without hurting others or being hurt because of their…

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  • Waitangi Day 2020: Flag cultural faux pa

    The Christchurch City Council (CCC) and the Okains Bay Māori and Colonial Museum held their 45th Waitangi Day celebration with a citizenship ceremony at Opara (Okains Bay), Banks Peninsula, South Island. The Christchurch City Council and the Okains Bay Māori and Colonial Museum chose to ignore flying the national Māori flag recognised by the New…

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  • Māori statistics of online Hate Speech

    Māori statistics of online Hate Speech

    This is a summary of Māori statistics extracted from the 2019 Net Safe Hate Speech Report “Measuring trends in online hate speech victimisation and exposure, and attitudes in New Zealand.” The report explores adult New Zealanders’ personal experiences of, and exposure to, online hate speech. It was as a direct result to the March 15…

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  • Māori children’s access to the Internet

    Māori children’s access to the Internet

    This is a summary of Māori statistics extracted from the Net Safe Report “Exploring New Zealand children’s internet access, skills and opportunities”. The research report presents findings from a study that explores New Zealand children aged between 9 and 18, their internet access, online skills, practices, and opportunities. In terms of ethnicity, the sample was…

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  • DIA release Māori baby names with non Māori name again

    Department of Internal Affairs releases their top 20 Māori baby names with mistakes again. Mia features in the girls names for the second year in a row. Despite Mia not being a Māori name. Māori language expert Tāwhirimātea Williams also publicly stated this with the 2018 list after myself and others stated it was not…

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  • Submission on Government algorithm transparency and accountability

    Submission on Government algorithm transparency and accountability

    This is the Fifth in a series of articles I am writing about Māori ethics with AI, Data sovereignty and Robotics. Article 4: Treaty Clause Required for NZ Government AI Systems and Algorithms;  Article 3: Māori Ethical considerations with Artificial Intelligence Systems; Article 2:  Māori ethics associated with AI systems architecture and Article 1: Māori cultural…

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  • Treaty Clause Required for NZ Government AI Systems and Algorithms

    Treaty Clause Required for NZ Government AI Systems and Algorithms

    UPDATE: A complete set of Māori ethics Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT This is the fourth in a series of articles I am writing about Māori ethics with AI, Data sovereignty and Robotics. Article 3: Māori Ethical considerations with Artificial Intelligence Systems; Article 2:  Māori ethics…

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  • Māori Ethical considerations with Artificial Intelligence Systems

    Māori Ethical considerations with Artificial Intelligence Systems

    UPDATE: A complete set of Māori ethics Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT This is the third in a series of articles I am writing about Māori ethics with AI, Data sovereignty and Robotics*. Article 2  Māori ethics associated with AI systems architecture and Article 1 Māori…

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  • Māori Internet Safety Statistics 2019

    A summary of Māori Internet safety statistics taken from three NetSafe reports from 2019. Image based sexual abuse report (2019) Threatening someone with image-based sexual abuse was more common among Asian (8%) and Māori (6%) compared with other ethnic groups. Parents of NZ European/Pākehā, Māori, and Pacific children were significantly more worried about their children…

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  • Is the UK Haka Pale Ale offensive?

    Is the UK Haka Pale Ale offensive?

    Stuff wrote a story today about the UK brewer Butcombe producing a Pale Ale called “Haka” featuring a silver or white fern. I did accuse Butcombe of cultural appropriation earlier in 2017 of their Haka branded pale ale. They were among 7 other UK brewers I contacted.  In contrast to the other UK brewers whom…

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  • Māori Data Sovereignty Rights for Well Being

    Māori Data Sovereignty Rights for Well Being

    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/  In today’s modern society, Māori need to consider the impacts of colonialism upon all aspects of life, including Digital and Māori Data. The definition of Data is taken from “Data is a Taonga” . “Data that…

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  • Māori ethics associated with AI systems architecture

    Māori ethics associated with AI systems architecture

    UPDATE: A complete set of Māori ethics Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT This is the second in a series of articles I am writing about Māori ethics with AI, Data sovereignty and Robotics. Article 1 Māori cultural considerations with Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Background My primary…

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  • Indigenising knowledge of Telecommunications and Smart Phones

    The complete paper in a pdf format can be downloaded here. An introduction, explanation and indigenising of current day natural phenomena radio technologies that are used for technologies such as 3G, 4G and 5G for mobile phones and indigenises modern day smart phones. Then, the paper compares pre colonial communications and traditional knowledge to explain…

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