Digitising data of minority cultures with no consideration or permission of their beliefs. Often with long lasting and severe consequences.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 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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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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Indigenising knowledge of Telecommunications and Smart Phones
The complete paper in a pdf format can be downloaded here. An introduction, explanation and indigenising of current day natural phenomena radio technologies that are
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New web proposed that could be Indigenous friendly
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is leading the design of a new initiative called Solid. The project aims to radically change the
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Can te reo Māori be digitally colonised?
Voice recognition of te Reo Māori and automated Maori translations via a computational device is colonisation and commercialisation no matter if by Māori or by
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Indigenous Peoples access to the new digital Terra Nullius – the Internet; Opportunities and Challenges they face.
This research shows that there is a lack of access to Internet and infrastructure by Indigenous Peoples of Alaska, New Mexico and Hawai’i and proves
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Protecting digital ancestor images
Digitising images of ancestors, taonga and places of cultural value and then sharing the image with whanau and friends on the Internet is common, as
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Cultural analysis of Emotiki app and why it could be offensive
Emotiki contains a number of culturally unsafe issues: the satirical use of a Polynesian deity Tiki, Tame Iti and the use of his face and
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Google Translate and NZ society’s stereotype of Māori people
The media article on the blunder of using Google translate by a mayoral candidate created lots of social media discussions that focused only on the
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