Beautiful Signals: Māori Data Sovereignty

When data is part of how your community thinks, plans, remembers, part of your identity and your wellbeing… what does it mean that for a 3rd party to hold that, to hold you? What does it mean to exist Te Ao Māori infrastructure, beyond colonial ontologies/ models of meaning?

Matou is a Māori organisation that builds digital tools to support thriving Māori communities, with data sovereignty as a core pillar. I’ve been honoured to be able to contribute to this mahi as Tāngata Tiriti, and here I’ll be bringing insights from 6+ years of co-design and collaboration with community partners.

This workshop is designed to:

• bring your up to speed on the discourse around Data Sovereignty
• give you a tour of concrete work Matou have done in this space
• fire you up about data sovereignty

Links: matou.nz, ahau.io