Digitising data of minority cultures with no consideration or permission of their beliefs. Often with long lasting and severe consequences.One of the most remote Māori communities in Aotearoa gets broadband Internet says Te Karere. I suspect this will have a number of cultural implications that
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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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Twitter: The latest digital Indigenous risk
Section 5 of the new Twitter Terms of Service state that Twitter users are now bound to giver full worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the
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Google Doodle of Whaea Dame Whina Cooper
Google Doodle published (in New Zealand only) on Dec 09 2015 Dame Whina Cooper which was a significant cultural step forward raising awareness of Māori
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Digital Indigenous Issues – My Ramblings
Here are some of my ramblings of Digital Colonialism and issues of Indigenous knowledge on the Internet. When I have time, i will expand on
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty issues
Free services such as Google, Microsoft Office 365, Facebook, Cloud, web hosting etc, are risking Indigenous Data Sovereignty issues and ownership of their own data
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Definition: Digital Colonialism
Digital colonialism deals with the ethics of digitizing Indigenous data and information without fully informed consent. Digital colonialism is the new deployment of a quasi-imperial
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Colonisation of the Internet: Māori Comparative Literature Review
Introduction A review and comparison of Māori with Native American Indian rights, based on the award winning research “Uncharted Domains and the New Land Rush:
Read moreMāori online content to be archived without permission or consultation
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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