This brief article looks at the idea that the Māori language will be colonised if used in speech recognition, machine learning, AI and other linguist
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Māori Cultural considerations with Facial Recognition Technology in New Zealand
The New Zealand Police, Customs, Ministry of Justice, DIA and other government agencies have a wide arsenal of Facial Recognition technologies with little or no
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Māori Data Sovereignty and Associated Legal Instruments
A new and inclusive of all Māori people and societies, not just Iwi as has been the status quo since Māori Data Sovereignty was first
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Māori Data Sovereignty and Digital Colonisation
Presentation to the Digital Justice – Emerging Technologies, Methods and Research on September 11 2020. Presentation here. Abstract An introduction to Māori and Indigenous Data
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Govt app discriminates against Māori language in another embarrassing ICT lesson
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
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Māori Data Sovereignty Rights for Well Being
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
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Data is a Taonga. A customary Māori perspective
This paper has been written to fill a void of information about data being a taonga and why there are various views by Māori. Stats
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Māori Data Sovereignty: Utopia or feasible?
Recently I was asked what my long term vision of Māori Data Sovereignty would look like. Interestingly this was asked at a Māori Data Sovereignty
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Māori Data Sovereignty: A definition
Data sovereignty is: The concept that information/Data which has been converted and stored in digital form is subject to the laws of the country in
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The National Library is archiving New Zealand web sites without your permission and with little or no consultation with Maori? The project is called New
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