Presentation to the Digital Justice – Emerging Technologies, Methods and Research on September 11 2020. Presentation here. Abstract An introduction to Māori and Indigenous Data sovereignty and digital colonisation. The presentation starts with a traditional Māori society view of Data, customary ownership values, Treaty of Waitangi values and Indigenises digital data to show the importance … Read more
The NZ Herald and Stuff have run a number of stories about a restaurant using the name “Kingi” and a few Māori and non Māori claiming it is cultural appropriation. The arguments are in my opinion getting so absurd that that I worry about the knowledge of some people who claim to be cultural experts … Read more
Another embarrassing lesson for the ICT and Digital industry when working with the New Zealand government. If you don’t consider Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti with digital projects you could unintentionally discriminate against Māori, Treaty and in this case legislation that protects and enhances the Māori Language. The New Zealand Covid app provided by the Ministry … Read more
Māori have an unique opportunity to gain substantial social, economic and educational advantages with 5G spectrum now that the government has allocated Māori a slice. The biggest risk is the lack of consultation with the handful of treaty claimants who it appears to be making the same mistake again as occurred with 3G spectrum allocation … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
The regulatory organisation of the Internet Domain Name .nz domain name space asked for feedback on their consultation. My submission considers Māori and Iwi representation and the lack of consultation in past reviews of .nz and it appears they have also been overlooked in this consultation. My feedback is based on 22 years of Māori … Read more
Also see Māori Data is a Taonga Chapter Also of interest and diverse views, an interview in English with myself, Tau Henare and Ngapera Riley discussing Māori Data as a Taonga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nFcXAycFg 2018 version (original) This paper has been written to fill a void of information about data being a taonga and why there are … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Te Re Māori is an official language of New Zealand. It is the Indigenous language of New Zealand/Aotearoa. The use of Latin as a place holder, while an international practice, there is no reason why any Indigenous Peoples can not and should not promote their own identity with their own language. Use of te reo … Read more
New Zealand Government usage of Māori Language in domains 2017 update A number of Māori language domains are no longer used from 2013, thus heavily reducing the amount of te reo Māori used in government domain names used by the New Zealand government. Ministry of Justice kaupapature.co.nz kaupapature.org.nz maorilandcourt.govt.nz maorilandonline.co.nz maorilandonline.govt.nz maorilandonline.net.nz maorilandonline.org.nz waitangitribunal.govt.nz waitangi-tribunal.govt.nz … Read more
For over 20 years up till 2017, Māori fought for the right to be to be fairly represented in the New Zealand Internet Domain Name System and to a lesser extent for recognition within the New Zealand Internet governing body InternetNZ, in an act of Māori Internet activism. A simple right that most people take for granted. … Read more
A timeline of Indigenous domain name developments that shows factual dates that will clarify some misconceptions of achievements. 1992 – nsn.us created. The worlds first Indigenous Domain Name. 1994 – iwi.nz created 1997 – First .maori.nz submission 2000 – Karaitiana Taiuru appointed .iwi.nz moderator 2000 – iwi.nz moderation policy updated 2001 – Second .maori.nz submission 2002 … Read more