Introduction
AI is not a new technology, having begun to be theorised and developed in the 1940’s. It is only recently that New Zealand businesses and households are recognising the power of AI and other emerging technologies.
Our current government are promoting the usage of AI in government and the New Zealand Institute of Directors 2023 survey of directors has AI as one of the top 5 priorities for boards. In the USA KPMG found at least 75% of business leaders saw Gen AI as the top 3 emerging technologies in 12-18 months.
The New Zealand Herald recently reported that “the majority of Whangārei businesses are trying out Artificial Intelligence (AI) but are still not entirely comfortable with the rapidly advancing technology.”
DATACOM AI Attitudes in New Zealand research report showed that New Zealand businesses are conscious and concerned about AI ethics and algorithmic bias. 53% of companies have questions around ethics, 50% with AI algorithms reflecting human bias and 82% believe that AI should be legislated.
AI services
We offer professional and confidential services to address all of these issues with Māori in New Zealand and your companies legal and moral obligations including:
Services include but are not limited to:
- Te Tiriti/Kaupapa Māori Centric Algorithmic Impact Assessments
Te Tiriti/Kaupapa Māori Centric AI Health Checks - Te Tiriti Kaupapa Māori AI Framework creation and adaption
- Te Tiriti AI Audits
- Māori Ethics with AI: reports, plans and implementation
- Privacy Impact assessments with a Te Ao Māori/Tikanga lens
- Policy reviews
- Governance Training with AI and Māori issues
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Māori Data Sovereignty Services
Dr Karaitiana Taiuru is a nationally and internationally recognised expert with Māori Data Sovereignty.
Unlike others in the Māori Data Sovereignty field who are either solely: tech, Iwi, biological focused, or academic philosophers, all with organisational constraints, Dr Taiuru is an independent multi-disciplinary Māori Data Sovereignty expert with knowledge backgrounds in Tech, Data, Te Tiriti, Māori Intellectual Property Rights, academia and is an active member in several Iwi, hapū and many Māori organisations around the country.
A recent survey by the International Data Corporation (IDC) indicates that data sovereignty and compliance are now key factors influencing IT decisions. In the Cloud Pulse 2Q22 survey, nearly half of the respondents (48%) highlighted the importance of data sovereignty and industry compliance in discussions about future IT architectures. Only a small fraction (4%) believed that their IT organizations would remain unaffected by these considerations. https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS50134623
A trusted expert with Waitangi Tribunal claimants including as an expert witness with WAI 2252 which recognised Māori Data and Māori Data Sovereignty and with both digital and Plant Varieties, tikanga and Mātauranga life experiences (complimenting the Supreme Court judgement that Tikanga is New Zealand’s first common law), and a recognised expertise with Māori Intellectual Property Rights, learnt mātauranga Māori from the mare and in Māori communities, skills that are not able to be taught in the education system and a belief system that is at odds with academia.
Dr Taiuru has worked in the tech industry for more than 30 years with Data, Internet, and emerging technologies with a commercial and Te Tiriti focus. He has extensively written about Māori Data Sovereignty as an academic and as a community leader documenting his extensive engagements and consultations with Māori communities including te ao Māori views-based Māori Data Sovereignty principles, Māori Data is a Taonga and critiqued many of the academic publications who theorise as opposes to engage with Māori and who do not have a te Ao Māori upbringings.
His PhD thesis was titled ‘Tikanga Sovereignty with Genetic Research” which extended the tech Māori Data Sovereignty into a traditional Māori world view of tikanga.
Dr Taiuru also recognises and promotes the multiple rights guaranteed by Te Tiriti and other legal instruments for both individual and collective Māori Data rights and responsibilities with hapū, marae, and Māori organisation, reflective of the High Court decision with Covid Vaccine Data in Te Pou Matakana Limited v Attorney-General (No 1) [2021] NZHC 2942 (WOCA 1) and Te Pou Matakana Limited v Attorney-General (No 2) [2021] NZHC 3319 (WOCA 2).
Services include but not limited to:
- Cloud Repatriation Analysis and plans with a Te Tiriti focus
- Māori Data Sovereignty Audits and system compliance
- Policy reviews to ensure Te Tiriti is recognised and Māori Data Sovereignty is appropriately planned while mātauranga Māori is at the forefront of Māori Data Sovereignty projects.
- Māori Data Sovereignty governance and operational training