Te Kete o Karaitiana Taiuru (Blog)

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 big data through a Māori Data Sovereignty approach” https://t.co/JctlqnKOTE

Whānau who are not in academia and research, I have free access (limited number). Please contact me. This is one reason I prefer to self publish, so no one is disadvantaged.

The abstract is as follows:

This perspective piece considers how principles of Māori Data Sovereignty can bring us closer to realising some of the social and environmental promises of new AgTech and the agricultural big data they produce. Our analysis is situated within the settler colonial context of Aotearoa New Zealand. We consider how obligations detailed within treaties guaranteeing equal partnership and Māori self-determination provide the foundation for:

(1) acknowledging how the promises of agricultural big data depend on the people, priorities, practices and power relations that guide and enact them; and

(2) creating the space to question and challenge current trajectories to ensure agricultural big data are collected and used in ways that promote data sovereignty and an equitable distribution of benefits. We argue that, due to their treaty obligations, publicly-funded projects developing AgTech and agricultural big data analytics in and for Aotearoa must begin developing equity- and sovereignty-promoting data management and governance practices.