COMMUNITY PROJECT CONCEPTS
These are provided as concepts to demonstrate the application of the “Mauri Model”, and as a creative outlet. If you have any ideas you would like to gift to the project please used the Contact Us form or our socials (links at the bottom of the page).
COMMUNITY PROJECT #419 - CULTURAL MAPPING PROJECT
Mission Statement:
To protect our "Digital Whenua" by using GIS technology to map wāhi tapu and historical sites, creating a sovereign layer for planning and storytelling.
The Needs Assessment:
Many of our sacred sites and historical narratives are being lost to development or the "Semantic Entropy" of fading oral histories. Current "Colonial Maps" view the land as "Fee Simple" titles rather than an entangled living ancestor. We need a high-fidelity way to visualise our history to protect our sovereignty.
COMMUNITY PROJECT #411 - DIGITAL WHAKAPAPA ARCHIVE
Mission Statement:
To assert digital sovereignty over our "Digital Flesh" by establishing secure, marae-hosted servers that preserve oral histories, ancestral records, and photos for future generations.
The Needs Assessment:
Currently, much of our whānau history is stored on foreign-owned "Babylonian" servers (Facebook, Google, iCloud). This is a form of digital colonialism where our most sacred data—our whakapapa—is commodified and disconnected from the whenua. Furthermore, as our kaumātua pass away, we face a "Semantic Entropy" where oral histories are lost forever if not captured in a sovereign environment.
COMMUNITY PROJECT #403 - TE MAURI RONGOĀ GLOBAL RESEARCH HUB
Mission Statement
To reclaim and operationalise indigenous medicinal wisdom through world-class, iwi-led research, ensuring the intellectual and spiritual sovereignty of our mātauranga is protected for future generations.
The Needs Assessment
For too long, Te Tai Tokerau has been a "Leaky Bucket" for both biological assets and human talent. Big pharmaceutical interests often extract the "embodied energy" of our native flora—like Kawakawa, Manuka, and Kumarahou—while the value-add and intellectual property (IP) are realised in offshore laboratories. Concurrently, our region faces a significant "Brain Drain," exporting our most energetic "Universal Constructors" (youth) because we lack high-tech, high-value industries. There is a desperate need for an entity that treats indigenous knowledge not as a relic of the past, but as high-fidelity data capable of solving modern global health crises.