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  • Ngai Tahu youth going to Silicon Valley

    Ngai Tahu youth going to Silicon Valley

    Great to see that ten Ngāi Tahu youth are going to Silicon Valley in October for a five-day science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) boot camp an opportunity was provided by Callaghan Innovation and NZQA which is a part of the Callaghan Innovation and NZQA “Āmua Ao: Experience Silicon Valley 2016” programme . Congratulations to…

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  • Māori youth digital access stats and ICT

    Māori youth digital access stats and ICT

    Careers New Zealand via Project Kāmehameha, dedicated a chapter to Rangitahi and Digital Channels Survey. Speaking to rangatahi from Years 7 to 13 including focus groups with teachers and family/whānau examined their roles, and a quantitative survey of 1,300 rangatahi investigated how Māori use digital channels. Key findings include: Type of technology used to access…

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  • Farewell Te Huarahi Tika Trust and Hautaki

    Farewell Te Huarahi Tika Trust and Hautaki

    After serving a 3.5 year term on Te Huarahi Tika Trust and 3 years on its commercial arm Hautaki Limited, I tendered my resignation at the previous AGM (November 2015) to take effect April 01 2016. As with any Māori organisation there are rumors and scaremongering among our own. So I thought I would take this unrestricted opportunity to…

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  • Obituary for Richard Ozrecki

    He Aituā Kua hinga te totaranui O te ao nui a Tāne Auē te mamae e E te rangitira Kua hoki koe Ki Hawaiki Nāna koe i whakaruruhau Nō reira haere atu rā, haere atu rā The ICT industry is so new and even newer for Maoridom, that it is uncommon for a digital leader…

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  • Te Reo Maori to prevent hackers

    Te Reo Maori to prevent hackers

    Using a Creative Commons Aotearoa list of Māori words from Te Ngutu Kura, Taipo and Indigenous developer has created a Māori Diceware word list to create pass phrases. The instrucitons and download can be found here https://github.com/Taipo/MaoriDiceware   This list can be used for kura kaupapa, kura, whanau, iwi and hapu to generate secure passphrases that…

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  • Maori respect for the dead considering cyber land

    A reflection and contemplation of a 16 hour period. Uncle Api Mahuika was an esteemed Māori leader with his people and the government. Moe mai ra e te rangatira. The first I heard about it this tragedy was on Facebook when via Te Wananga o Takiura were seeking some form of authoritative clarification that the…

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  • Te Mangai Paho to administer the proposed $30 million ICT fund for Māori

    This is a positive step forward for Māori society and for tax payers. The money is being administered by a government entity that has a proven track record in administering large amounts of funds, is publicly accountable and who are being transparent with the way they plan to structure the organisation.   The Māori ICT…

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  • Digital Divide Stats for Maori

    The World Internet Project New Zealand released their latest report “World Internet Project, New Zealand; The Internet in New Zealand 2013.” with some interesting statistics based ethnicity and in particular, Māori.   I have extracted the ethnicity statistics and have included commentary.    Māori and Pasifika internet users, especially those in lower income households, take the…

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  • A beginner’s guide to Māori interests in the 4G spectrum.

    I am interviewed about my opinions on how 4G Spectrum will benefit te reo Maori and Tikanga. I also briefly discuss my opinion of the allocation of a proposed $30 million Maori ICT fund.

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  • Google autocomplete: shocking racist and offensive to Maori

    Responding to Stuff.co.nz story about sexism against women titled “Shocking sexism in Google search” I have written about the way Google autocomplete discriminate against Maori. It is unfortunate that no effort has, nor has ever been made to discuss the racist and offensive auto complete relating to Māori or any other Indigenous Peoples of the…

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