I can probably count the number of people who will read our PhD thesis on two hands;
1. Marie-Louise, my wife as she’s my go too grammar check extraordinaire; 2 & 3. Drs Hēmi Whaanga and Te Kahautu Maxwell, my PhD supervisors; 4, 5,& 6. the two or three PhD markers and 7. Ko ahau, Me
My whānau research is looking at how we wish to respond to Professor Mātāmua’s comment,
“Is Artificial Intelligence the new revolution or the new coloniser of Māori?”
I want to believe that our collective research hits a few more eyes and stimulates a few more brain cells than those of the 7 people highlighted above.
Many of my whānau has already expressed their concerns of how we are going to share the findings of our research considering the fact that the reading of a 100,000 word essay is not their preferred learning style. So our challenge is therefore to present our findings in ways our whānau will be able to learn from. These are some of the platforms we’re exploring to ensure our important mahi rangahau, our research work can be shared. (These are not in any order of preference but rather how they lined up in our whānau kōrero.)
TV series and/or documentary
Cousins Pete, Kelly & Tiwai Saxton and Shari Kameta have the knowledge, skill-set, technological know-how to learn from to create further docos. So much respect to our Whanaunga for creating such a wonderful taonga for us.
Vlogs and Blogs
Aotearoa AI Summit – Guest blog
Is there a disconnect between Government policy and actual practice on the ground in the AI field here in Aotearoa?
https://internetnz.nz/news-and-articles/aotearoa-ai-summit-guest-blog/
Left to right: Pic 1. Hon Dr David Clark; Pic 2. Potaua Biasiny-Tule, Dr Paora Mato (RIP bro), Rangimarie Biddle; Pic 3. Toiroa Williams & Rangimarie
Newspaper articles
Interactive journalism
Here’s an example of Interactive journalism: All hail the algorithm by Ali Rae, reporter for Aljazeera
Journal articles
Poetry
Comic series
The duddlers, creatists and artists in our whānau hide their talents in plan sight.
Audio podcasts
A series of letters
A set of photographic or graphic posters
Children’s story books
Photographic collections
We have talented photographers in our Whānau who have already provided us with amazing photographic memories.
Song compositions
Visual art expositions
Short stories
Our Cousin Pohutu wrote a pūrākau about our Nanny. The historical commentary was written i roto e te reo Māori anake, with a translated version. Pohutu created this taonga as part of her Te Awa Reo course completed at Te Whare o Awanuiarangi in 2016.
Virtual / augmented reality stories
Individual and group hui presentations
(e)Books
We are already blessed with a set of Amoamo Whānau Reunion books. We have the expertise, knowledge and skill to write and publish further exemplars. Thank you Aunty Ri, alongside your cousins, nieces and nephews who created our first Amoamo Whānau Reunion in 2006.
Watch this space as our Whānau discover different ways to share our stories.
He taonga toku iho – Treasures of our heritage
AI connecting our Whānau 