Tahiku Media: The Chief Technology Officer

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Tahiku Media was born out of legislation to give Maori the indigenous people of Altairoa space on the airwaves. Since then Tahiku has moved into terrestrial television, you know, bunny years sort of TV broadcasting and that was through public broadcasting as well. The transition started around 2012 when we had this big digital switch over. But in doing that, we're going to have to turn off our old sort of bunny year TV that sort of, they call it, I think, white space frequencies.

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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