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  • Jurisdictional Māori Data Sovereignty introduction

    Jurisdictional Māori Data Sovereignty introduction

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    One of the 6 principals of  Māori Data Sovereignty refers to jurisdictional considerations, or the requirement to store Māori data in New Zealand when appropriate. Jurisdictional considerations for Māori Data should include Māori Data that is tapu (sacred or sensitive) including not limited to: genetic data,  personal health data and other private data about individuals,

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  • Governance issues, Māori Data Sovereignty and Privacy Issues with Slack

    Governance issues, Māori Data Sovereignty and Privacy Issues with Slack

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform developed by Slack Technologies, which has been owned by Salesforce since 2020. Slack has freemium and paid subscriptions. Slack’s primary userbase is businesses, and has functionalities primarily for businesses. It is also popular among many groups including Māori. Recently and very discreetly Slack announced on their Privacy Principles: Search,

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  • 6 Te Tiriti Based Artificial Intelligence Ethical Principles by Karaitiana Taiuru

    6 Te Tiriti Based Artificial Intelligence Ethical Principles by Karaitiana Taiuru

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    These peer reviewed principles were originally written by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru, to provide a Māori and Te Tiriti perspective on Artificial Intelligence with Health, complimenting the ‘Principals section’ written by Professor James Maclaurin – Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou | The University of Otago, for inclusion into the collaborative and peer reviewed report “Capturing the

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  • Te Tiriti o Waitangi Principles for Robotics

    Te Tiriti o Waitangi Principles for Robotics

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    These principles have been adapted to general robotics for both the industry and research to better assist the industry to acknowledge Te Tiriti o Waitangi. If creating robotics for health, then there are nationally agreed Te Tiriti principles for health that should be used in stead. For researchers, these principles can be used as a

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  • Is anonymised Māori Data a Taonga?

    Is anonymised Māori Data a Taonga?

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Anonymised Data is a western perspective for data that is anonymous as they human eye can’t see where the data came from, who the data is about and where the data originated from. From A Te Ao Māori (traditional Māori cultural perspective) anonymous Māori Data that originates from Māori Data, then that anonymous data is

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  • Is Synthetic Data a Taonga?

    Is Synthetic Data a Taonga?

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This brief post will discuss and analyse if synthetic digital data that is used with Māori Data, is itself Māori Data and therefore a Taonga. It will use traditional Māori customary values and beliefs (tikanga) and Māori Data Sovereignty principles and applying those in an Māori perspective, resulting in a non western perspective explaining if

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  • Artificial Intelligence and Mātauranga Sovereignty

    Artificial Intelligence and Mātauranga Sovereignty

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    I was honoured to present at the prestigious Gibbon Lectures earlier this year and to be hosted by the School of Computer Science at University of Auckland. I share my thoughts about how we (Māori) are at a crossroads in human evolution, and that AI could be used to decolonise and empower Māori. I discuss how all

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  • Te Ao Māori considerations of AI with the dead and personal Data

    Te Ao Māori considerations of AI with the dead and personal Data

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Māori Data Sovereignty is now more crucial than ever, with “Dr. Pratik Desai, a Silicon Valley computer scientist who has founded multiple Artificial Intelligence platforms, boldly predicts that a human being’s “consciousness could be uploaded onto digital devices by the end of the year [2023]”. For my regular readers, you will know I predicted this

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  • Google Civil Rights Audit – An opportunity for a Te Tiriti audit

    Google Civil Rights Audit – An opportunity for a Te Tiriti audit

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    On Friday (Saturday NZT) Google released a Civil Rights Audit that it had voluntarily contracted an external law firm WilmerHale that examines how its policies and services impact civil rights and made a number of recommendations to address misinformation and hate speech. It is too American centric and doesn’t even appear to consider the Indigenous

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  • Indigenous versus Māori Data Sovereignty

    Indigenous versus Māori Data Sovereignty

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This article will introduce the many notions of Indigenous Data and Māori Data Sovereignty and explain the differences. It is becoming common in New Zealand that the terms Indigenous and Māori Data Sovereignty are interchangeably used by Māori Data practitioners and the Crown, removing all Te Tiriti, legal and moral rights to Māori Data and

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  • Māori Data Sovereignty in the Agriculture industry

    Māori Data Sovereignty in the Agriculture industry

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Māori Data Sovereignty with Agriculture Data and how it could assist the Agriculture industry. A perspective piece co authored with myself and my two awesome colleagues Dr Karly Burch and Dr Susanna Finlay-Smits. A real Te Tiriti approach to sharing Māori and Western perspectives for the benefit of those in the Agriculture industry. Realising the promises of agricultural

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  • The NZ Supreme Court Judgement and the impacts to Māori Data Sovereignty

    The NZ Supreme Court Judgement and the impacts to Māori Data Sovereignty

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This is an opinion piece as a Tikanga practitioner and Māori Data expert who is not a lawyer and has no formal legal training. The recent Supreme Court judgement recognises Tikanga Māori is common law and applicable in the legal system. This gives further impact and recognition to the legal status of Māori Data Sovereignty

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  • Māori Data Sovereignty Whakataukī

    Māori Data Sovereignty Whakataukī

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The following whakataukī  summarises the whole notion and idea of Māori Data Sovereignty and the importance that Māori Data Sovereignty is a Te Tiriti right not just for Iwi, but for all of Māori society and individuals as noted in WAI 2522. The original intention of the whakataukī was not about Māori Data Sovereignty as

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  • ReMāorification origins of Māori Data, Sovereignty and Governance

    ReMāorification origins of Māori Data, Sovereignty and Governance

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This is brief opinion piece uses traditional knowledge to show Māori Data, Māori Data Sovereignty and Māori Data Governance has existed since pre colonisation. The origins are found in mātauranga Māori (traditional knowledge) and in the natural and physical landscapes all over New Zealand and the Pacific. Māori Data is a living Taonga such as

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  • Consumer Guidelines for Māori Non Fungible Tokens

    Consumer Guidelines for Māori Non Fungible Tokens

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    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

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    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

    Karaitiana Taiuru

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

    Māori Covid immunisation Data to be shared and the Sovereignty issues

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    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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