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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 tauiwi. Our traditional stories warn us of such recordings of the voice. Hence, I believe the reason why our learned old people shied away from recordings of the person and…

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  • Introduction to Māori Cultural Considerations with Genetics

    This paper discusses the implications of traditional tikanga Māori practices with Genetic scientific research. The paper can be downloaded directly from here. Objectives There are four primary objectives for this research: To show a direct relationship between traditional Māori tikanga and cosmology to explain why tikanga is applicable to genomic research. To review the current…

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