AI Decisions.
Māori Authority.
Governance, training, and strategy for iwi and organisations.
Organisations are being asked to adopt AI without safeguards in place to protect Maori digital sovereignty. EDT Maori AI makes the risks visible, keep control in your hands, and help you move forward on your own terms.
Book Launch — Indigenous AI Governance
Indigenous AI Governance: Voices From Aotearoa
This book is a call to action. Diverse Māori voices—leaders and innovators—share their thinking on how Indigenous sovereignty shapes AI design, data protection, and institutional power. These conversations demand we act now. The future of technology is being written. The question is: will Māori be the ones writing it?
What's Inside the Book
The Issue
AI is reshaping decisions about data, power, and who benefits—Indigenous communities face unique risks of extraction and loss of control.
Indigenous Knowledge
Data sovereignty, governance models, and strategic guidance grounded in Maori authority and collective responsibility.
Voices from Aotearoa
Conversations with Maori leaders, technologists, and researchers reveal what Maori-led AI governance looks like in practice.
Who This Book is For
Trustees and governance boards making decisions about AI adoption.
Leaders in health, education, and social services navigating technology implementation.
Māori technologists and practitioners building Indigenous-led solutions
Rangatahi interested in technology and Indigenous futures
“"If we don't design them, then it just becomes another layer of exploitation of Indigenous knowledge."”
— Ramona Radford, Ngā Pou a Tāne