Abstract This paper surveys Internet information resources relating to the Maori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and examines issues that arise when indigenous peoples’ culture is placed in a digital networked environment. Introduction The indigenous people of New Zealand are the Maori, descended from the great Polynesian voyagers who […]
1997 • Aotearoa • authority • challenges • indigenous issues • Internet use • misappropriation • New ZealandMAI Journal: a New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship
MAI Journal is an open access journal that publishes multidisciplinary peer-reviewed articles that critically analyse and address indigenous and Pacific issues in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand. We aim to publish scholarly articles that substantively engage with intellectual indigenous scholarship. MAI Journal reflects developments in the vision and mission […]
Aotearoa • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous issues • indigenous studies • interdisciplinary • New Zealand • open access • researchCitizen-created content, digital equity and the preservation of community memory
Abstract While the complex issues concerning the protection and preservation of digital assets are better understood by the information professions, there is still much thinking required about the preservation and protection of the new wave of citizen-created content. Traditionally information professionals in all types of memory institutions have clearly met […]
2009 • Aotearoa • asset management • community memory • culture | preservation • digital collections • New ZealandTransforming Communities: Technologies for Teaching and Learning Endangered Languages
Introduction Māori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Māori is one of three official languages of the country, but is not compulsory in schools. Only 4% of Aotearoa/NewZealand’s total population of around 4 million can speak Māori and only 23% of Māori are fluent in the language (Te Puni […]
2011 • Aotearoa • culture | preservation • endangered language • indigenous communities • language | preservation • Māori • New Zealand • researchTechnology, Education and Indigenous Peoples: the case of Maori
Introduction Technology was introduced, as a formal ‘subject’, into New Zealand’s compulsory education curriculum in 1993, as part of the ‘stunning’ changes which commenced at all levels in 1988. The government’s latest paper ‘Bright future: five steps ahead’ (New Zealand Government, 1999) suggests that we are about to enter, without […]
2000 • Aotearoa • education • knowledge • Māori • New ZealandMāori Maps: Gateway to Māori world of Marae
“Māori Maps is a gateway to the Māori world of marae. It aims to take visitors to the gateway of marae around Aotearoa/New Zealand; beyond that point, visitors can make their own interactions with the marae community. Māori Maps assembles information about all the traditional, tribal marae. It does not include […]
ancestors • Aotearoa • culture • Māori • mapping • marae • New Zealand • youth