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Payments NZ knew that Māori data sovereignty rights were important, and that Māori data governance could help give effect to Māori data sovereignty, but they weren’t sure how to go about the finer details of implementation. Nicholson Consulting’s Māori data team was able to support Payments NZ on their journey.

Since our last post about using HAP to develop community insights for Te Mātāwai, Kōtātā Insight and Nicholson Consulting have partnered with Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori to use HAP to provide additional insights around Maihi Karauna – the Crown’s strategy for Māori Language Revitalisation.

In 2022, our Maaori Data kaimahi worked on a fantastic project with Waikato-Tainui. This mahi included conducting data analysis that would inform the provision of their wellbeing services and support targeted COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

As more people consider the role AI should play in our future, we thought it would be an excellent time to think about the unique opportunities, challenges, and risks that AI presents to Māori in Aotearoa.

Nicholson Consulting was selected by Stats NZ to help weave the realisation of potential together through Māori data expertise in the data system architecture and design space.

An update on how He Ara Poutama mō te reo Māori is continuing to help te reo Māori blaze and glow.

Te Matapaeroa 2020 is part of an ongoing research piece focusing on Māori economic resilience and Māori businesses in Aotearoa, which is one of the strategic priority areas for Te Puni Kōkiri.

As part of our ongoing work with Te Kotahi Research Institute for the Tikanga in Technology: Indigenous approaches to transforming data ecosystems programme, we were invited to host the Whāki Webinar series in January 2022.

In 2021, Nicholson Consulting were commissioned by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (the audiovisual archive of Aotearoa) to provide a whakaaro Māori perspective on data to inform the development of their data strategy.

He Ara Poutama mō te reo Māori is a research tool that uses data to understand how we can revive an indigenous language to thrive today and into the future.

Data represents what people are and do, and in this country that can mean considering Te Ao Māori ways of approaching data, and automation.

University of Waikato, supported by Nicholson Consulting staff and other indigenous researchers, have successfully secured $6m funding over four years from October 2020 in the latest Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Endeavour Fund round.

Tourism in Aotearoa was significantly impacted in 2020 due to the ever-lasting effects of Covid-19. NZ Māori tourism approached us to better understand how Māori-owned businesses in the tourism industry were affected.

Our former team member, Pip Bennett, presented "What will it take?" at the International Indigenous Research Conference, "Gathering of Indigenous Minds" in 2020.

Ernestynne Walsh, our Māori Data Service Lead, and former CEO Kylie Reiri gave the keynote presentation at HACK Aotearoa in 2019. “Smarter health decisions with data science: an operational and a policy example”. Photo by Andrew Lau Photography.