The Digital Switch Over Forced Tahikim Media to Move Online

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Tahikim media is a radio station based in the far north of New Zealand. In 2013, Tahikim started broadcasting 24-hour web TV before Facebook and Periscope came around. The organization decided that it really needed a strong digital strategy to serve its community. They knew they could not put all their content on YouTube or SoundCloud because Google can do whatever they want with it. So we had to build our own digital platform from scratch using open source framework Django.

Paris Marx is joined by Keoni Mahelona to discuss the colonial nature of data extraction by major tech companies, and how Te Hiku takes a very different approach to revitalize the Māori language.

Keoni Mahelona is the Chief Technology Officer at Te Hiku Media. Follow Keoni on Twitter at @mahelona.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

Keoni and some of his colleagues wrote about why OpenAI’s Whisper is another example of colonialism.
Wired and MIT Tech Review have written about the work Te Hiku is doing with Māori language in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Mark Zuckerberg owns a lot of land in Hawaiʻi, and it’s quite controversial.

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