Reframing Data as a Taonga: A Māori Data Sovereignty Framework

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Source
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Published
1 Aug 2026
Authors
Simon Lambert, Hauiti Hakopa, Micheal Heimlick

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The value of data continues to increase as new technologies have a seemingly insatiable demand for information. This places Indigenous peoples in the difficult position as both users of diverse data for standard and unique ends and the producers of standard and unique data for diverse ends. In Aotearoa New Zealand, Māori have entered scholarly and policy debates on data with typical relish. Yet our communities are at different stages of understanding and empowerment as the owners, producers and users of data. This article details a co‐design process in producing a data framework that originated in the biosecurity space but has wider applications. While we use cultural metaphors to explain…

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