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Dr Karaitiana Taiuru regularly composes blog posts on topics relating to Māori and Artificial Intelligence, Data Sovereignty, Safety, Cultural Appropriation and other related topics. Please subscribe to the RSS feed http://www.taiuru.co.nz/rss to keep up to date.
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History of the domain name maori nz
First published: 10 November 2026 First written in 2012. Republished in 2026 with the original proposals, submissions and media releases. The significance of .maori.nz goes well beyond a web address. It was an early assertion of Māori identity and tino…
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Indigenous Domain Names
First published: 10 November 2026 .iwi.nz, .maori.nz and .māori.nz are three of the world’s first five Indigenous domain names; the other two are .nsn.us and .nsn.gov, for Native Sovereign Nations in America. A domain name is the human-readable address of…
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Dot Iwi dot NZ history
First published: 10 November 2026 .iwi.nz .iwi.nz was the first Indigenous domain name in Aotearoa New Zealand and the second in the world, after the Native American nsn domain. .iwi.nz is a moderated domain. Any traditional Māori tribe, hapū or…
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Te Tiriti Critique of a NZ AI Safety Lobby Group
First published: 10 November 2026 Good Ancestors New Zealand is setting out to shape Aotearoa’s national AI safety agenda without any reference to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Māori data sovereignty or tangata whenua. Across its website and all twelve of…
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Voice Recognition mispronunciation
First published: 10 November 2026 This is an historical case study from 2020 that is used here as an important example. ANZ Bank’s automated voice and the mispronunciation of Ohakune. It should be noted here that after the individual made…
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Māori Language in NZ Domain Names
First published: 10 November 2026 Domain names are the addresses people use to find us online. When te reo Māori appears in them, it becomes part of the everyday fabric of the internet in Aotearoa. When it doesn’t, the language…
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Internationalised Domain Names IDNs
First published: 10 November 2026 Macrons (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū) can be used in all .nz domain names, so web addresses can reflect the correct written form of te reo Māori. This article covers how that came about, how…
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Big Tech, Religion and the Missing Indigenous Voice
First published: 8 November 2026 Big tech companies are now asking religious leaders how to teach their AI ethics and moral behaviour. Both are global institutions, and some of the churches involved played a central role in colonising Indigenous peoples.…
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APA Referencing AI outputs
First published: 3 November 2026 APA Referencing and whakapapa for Generative AI Recording the whakapapa of how you have used Generative AI is often seen as essential for academic research, and from a Te Ao Māori perspective it recognises the…
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Public servants back Māori governance of data in AI 2025
First published: 2 November 2026 Note: This article was first prepared for offline presentations when the reports it discusses were released. It has since been updated and published online on the date shown. The Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here…
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AI, Automation and Māori Jobs 2024
First published: 2 November 2026 Note: This article was first prepared for offline presentations when the reports it discusses were released. It has since been updated and published online on the date shown. Māori are concentrated in the jobs and…
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Online harm 2023 vs 2025
First published: 2 November 2026 Note: This article was first prepared for offline presentations when the reports it discusses were released. It has since been updated and published online on the date shown. In 2023, Māori and other New Zealanders…
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Māori Privacy Survey Findings 2024
First published: 2 November 2026 Note: This article was first prepared for offline presentations when the reports it discusses were released. It has since been updated and published online on the date shown. One in three Māori avoided contacting a…
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One meeting is not a Māori mandate on AI
First published: 2 November 2026 Note: This article was first prepared for offline presentations when the reports it discusses were released. It has since been updated and published online on the date shown. In July 2024, the Minister of Science,…
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Maori beneficiaries are the training data 2023
First published: 2 November 2026 Note: This article was first prepared for offline presentations when the reports it discusses were released. It has since been updated and published online on the date shown. In November 2023, the Ministry of Social…
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Biometric data is tapu
First published: 2 November 2026 Note: This article was first prepared for offline presentations when the reports it discusses were released. It has since been updated and published online on the date shown. In 2024, the Privacy Commissioner asked Māori…
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Maori and Generative AI in Primary Schools 2025
First published: 2 November 2026 Note: This article was first prepared for offline presentations when the reports it discusses were released. It has since been updated and published online on the date shown. Māori teachers in primary schools are using…
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Maori, Digital Payments and AI 2016
First published: 2 November 2026 Māori use digital payments as much as other New Zealanders, and are slightly more open to AI shopping agents and facial recognition checkouts. That openness makes protecting Māori data urgent, before these technologies arrive. These…
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Ministry for Regulation 2026
First published: 31 October 2026 · Last updated: 2 November 2026 Ticking the Box: What an OIA Release Shows About Māori Expertise in Government AI Guidance A case study on the Ministry for Regulation’s 2026 guidance for regulators using artificial…
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Kaupapa Māori and Government Data Governance Frameworks
First published: 31 October 2026 · Last updated: 10 November 2026 There are many ways to recognise Māori Data Sovereignty, and there is no single framework. Over the past decade, Māori researchers, iwi, hapū, Māori organisations and practitioners, in addition…
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Rangatahi Māori concerned with lack of AI training
First published: 27 October 2026 Te Ao Māori news poll show rangatahi Māori have concerns at the lack of AI training opportunities and are aware of the short term future risks with employment and culture. The poll should be a…
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Māori and the Harmful Digital Communications Act
First published: 23 October 2026 Māori are over-represented among people prosecuted and convicted under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015. Across the ten years from 2016/17 to 2025/26, Māori made up 22.2% of people with finalised charges and 23.8% of…
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Māori as targets of online abuse
First published: 20 October 2026 · Last updated: 11 November 2026 Māori experience more online harm than other New Zealanders, and it is getting more serious. In Netsafe’s 2025 survey, 48% of Māori received unwanted digital communications in the past…
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AI Bias, Māori Data Sovereignty & AI Governance Glossary
First published: 18 October 2026 · Last updated: 25 October 2026 This glossary provides plain-language definitions of key terms in Māori data sovereignty, data residency, AI governance, AI bias, algorithmic lookism, and facial recognition technology (FRT) bias in Aotearoa New…
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Taiuru, K.N. (2010, August 22). Blog – Te Kete o Karaitiana Taiuru. Taiuru & Associates Ltd. https://www.taiuru.co.nz/blog-2/