Te Pā Tūwatawata

Koru — New life / beginnings

Ko wai nāu i hanga? — Who built the systems that govern your data? The koru unfurls, but who decides which direction? Take the free course. #KiwiDialectic #MāoriDataSovereignty 🌿

Pā Tūwatawata — Protection

A pā was not just a fortress. It was a way of organising community. Te Pā Tūwatawata is doing the same thing — but for Māori data. Who holds the palisade? #TinoRangatiratanga

Niho Taniwha — Challenge

The taniwha's teeth are at the threshold. Every time an AI model trains on Māori language, stories, or faces without consent — that's a bite. He raupatu tonu tēnei. #AIActivism

Kōwhaiwhai — Genealogy / law

Ko te tikanga te ture tuatahi. Tikanga is the first law. It was here before the Treaty, before Parliament, before the internet. Any tech that ignores it is operating outside the law. #KaupapaMāori

Unaunahi — Collective armour

Fish scales interlock. No single scale holds the whole — but together they form armour. Ko tātou he kahu. Data sovereignty is not individual. It is collective. Kotahitanga. #Unaunahi

Takarangi — Duality / future

Ka huri ka huri — it turns and turns. Two spirals, past and future, wound together. The digital future is not separate from te ao Māori. Ko tātou te anamata. #SovereignFutures

Module 1 — Activity

Data whakapapa map

Draw a whakapapa of your own data: where was it born, who holds it, where has it travelled? Map it like an ancestor chart. What does that reveal?

Tweet prompt: "I just mapped the whakapapa of my data. Try it — draw every company that holds something you shared. The result is haunting. Module 1 👉 [link] #KiwiDialectic"

Module 2 — Activity

Design your own pā

If you were to build a digital pā for your community — who would be inside? What tikanga would govern access? Draw the walls, the gates, the kaitiaki.

Tweet prompt: "What would a digital pā look like — built on tikanga instead of terms of service? Module 2 blew my mind. Free course 👉 [link] #TePāTūwatawata"

Module 3 — Activity

Raupatu audit

Name one AI product that uses indigenous data without consent. Research it. Who profits? Who loses? Write 200 words in te reo or English — or both.

Tweet prompt: "AI companies are training on Māori voices, faces, and waiata without consent. This is raupatu in digital form. He raupatu tonu tēnei. #AIActivism #MāoriDataSovereignty"

Module 4 — Activity

Tikanga test

Take any tech company's privacy policy. Apply three tikanga principles to it: whakapapa (relationship), mana (authority), kaitiakitanga (guardianship). Does it pass?

Tweet prompt: "Applied tikanga to Google's privacy policy. It fails on whakapapa, mana, AND kaitiakitanga. Ko te tikanga te ture tuatahi. Module 4 👉 [link] #KaupapaMāori"

Module 5 — Activity

Ethics by design

Redesign one feature of a social media platform using unaunahi logic — interlocking layers, collective protection. Draw it. What changes? What disappears?

Tweet prompt: "What if social media was built like unaunahi — fish scales, each one protecting the next? Collective design over extraction. Module 5 👉 [link] #EthicalDesign"

Module 6 — Activity

Manifesto haiku

Write a three-line manifesto for sovereign digital futures in te reo Māori. No English allowed. Post it. Tag #KiwiDialectic. Watch what happens.

Tweet prompt: "Ko tātou te anamata. Finished Module 6 of this free course on Māori data sovereignty. My brain is restructured. Take it. 👉 [link] #SovereignFutures #TinoRangatiratanga"

In the classroom

Print the Teacher's Handbook. Open with a Freirean generative word — try raraunga (data) or raupatu (confiscation). Let the room define it before you do. Use module memes as discussion starters.

In a wānanga

Use the Student Activity Sheets as koha for participants. The arts kit's kōwhaiwhai design session works as an icebreaker. No internet required — everything is printable.

For community groups

The rhizome PDF works as a manifesto for decentralised organising. Print it. Leave copies. Use the 8 tools as a planning template. Each tool is independent — start anywhere.

On social media

Share a PDF page as an image. Photograph the Teacher's Handbook open on a desk. Post a student's activity sheet response (with permission). Use the campaign memes as post images with the tweet templates above.

X / Twitter

Best use: Short provocations, threads, real-time political commentary.
Post times NZT: 7–9am, 12–1pm, 7–9pm.
Top formats: Single-image card (1200×675) + 1-line hook. Thread of 5 with escalating argument. Quote-tweet with political critique.

Hashtags: #KiwiDialectic #MāoriDataSovereignty #TinoRangatiratanga #AIActivism #TeReo

Instagram

Best use: Visual storytelling, carousel education, te reo content.
Post times NZT: 8–10am, 6–8pm.
Top formats: Carousel (10 slides, one idea per slide). Single 1080×1080 with long caption. Reels cover using TikTok vertical cards.

Hashtags: #KiwiDialectic #MāoriArt #TeReoMāori #DataSovereignty #IndigenousRights #Aotearoa

Facebook

Best use: Community groups, whānau networks, longer-form sharing.
Post times NZT: 9am–12pm, 3–5pm.
Top formats: Image + 3–5 sentence caption. Share to Māori education / activism groups. Event creation for wānanga.

Groups: Māori Education Network, Tangata Whenua Social Work, Kaupapa Māori Research Network

TikTok

Best use: Hook under 3 seconds, teach one idea per video.
Post times NZT: 6–9pm, 9–11pm.
Top formats: Text-on-screen explainer over taonga puoro or ambient audio. Vertical card as thumbnail. Duet + stitch for political commentary.

Script hook: "Did you know AI companies are legally stealing Māori language data right now? Here's what that means and what we're doing about it."

Substack

Best use: Long-form analysis, course excerpts, manifesto posts.
Cadence: Weekly drop tied to course module. Use module meme as header image. End every post with free course CTA.
Growth: Cross-post thread to X with Substack link pinned as reply 1.

Stack: solamiculum589777.substack.com

LinkedIn

Best use: Reaching educators, policy makers, NGOs, tech sector.
Best frame: "Indigenous data governance as a model for ethical AI" — positions The Kiwi Dialectic as thought leadership, not just activism.
Format: 1640×624 cover + 300-word article post.

Target: EdTech NZ, AI ethics circles, iwi development orgs, university Te Ara Poutama departments

Post this — Rhizome intro

The colonial system is a tree. One trunk, one root, hierarchy all the way down. But whakapapa is a rhizome — no centre, no authorised entry, no single authority. Cut it and it regrows. This is how te reo survived. This is how we organise. #Pakiaka #KiwiDialectic

Post this — Lines of flight

A "line of flight" isn't retreat — it's escape that creates new terrain. Kōhanga reo was a line of flight. Te Hiku Media's own-voice AI was a line of flight. Te Pā Tūwatawata is a line of flight. Where is yours? #LinesOfFlight #IndigenousResistance

Post this — Wānanga invitation

Open wānanga. No prerequisites. No single entry point. Knowledge moving horizontally in a circle. We're using the rhizome PDF from The Kiwi Dialectic as a planning template. Join us. [date / location / link] #OpenWānanga #KaupapaMāori

Learning activity

Map your rhizome

Draw your activist network as a rhizome — not a hierarchy. Who connects to who? Where are the lines of flight? Where are the blockages? What would deterritorialisation look like for your community?

Print & cut

Download SVG or PNG. Print on sticker paper at Warehouse Stationery, PaperPlus, or any copy shop. A4 sheets cost $2–5. Print 10 at once — they go fast.

Where to place

Power boxes and lamp posts near universities and marae. Laptop covers at wānanga. Skate parks. Community notice boards. Inside library books. On your own gear — normalise visibility.

Digital stickering

Add SVG stickers to your Instagram Stories using the sticker tool. Screenshot and post. Use as profile overlays. Paste onto photo backgrounds in Canva for shareable posts. The motif travels.

QR code extension

Generate a QR code linking to this course. Print it onto the A4 sticker sheet alongside the designs. Anyone who scans it lands on a free education. Rhizome logic in action.

Start here — Māori data sovereignty

• Te Mana Raraunga — charter and principles
• Māori Data Governance Model
• CARE Principles — Indigenous data globally

Go deeper — AI and indigeneity

• Te Hiku Media — kaitiakitanga and AI
• Te Pā Tūwatawata — the infrastructure model
• Kāhui Raraunga — governance in practice

Radical pedagogy tradition

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years — David Graeber
• Mutual Aid — Peter Kropotkin
• Thousand Plateaus — Deleuze & Guattari

Connect + continue

• The Kiwi Dialectic — follow for more
• GitHub repo — all source files
• Share using #KiwiDialectic on any platform
• Print, remix, redistribute — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0