Keoni Mahelona is the Chief Technical Officer of Te Hiku Media, where he is a part of the team developing the Kaitiakitanga Licence. This licence seeks to balance the importance of publicly accessible data with the reality that Indigenous Peoples might not have access to the resources that enable them to benefit from public data. By simply opening access to data and knowledge, Indigenous Peoples could be further colonised and taken advantage of in a digital, modern world. Therefore Keoni is committed to devising data governance regimes which enable Indigenous Peoples to reclaim and maintain sovereignty over Indigenous data.

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Our 2022 webinar series was a joint initiative with the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) at the School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland.