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Catalysing systems change - SOCAP SUMMIT Oct 2024

Harnessing people and technology for 'GOOD' It is where Indigenous world views meets technology to create something new....

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We are not ready!

I wanted this post to be light, short, about AI and AGI and what an Indigenous lens can mean. But it's not, thanks to recent headlines in...

Waitangi - Wielding big power.

This is a first reflection, (there are many!) a week or so after Waitangi Day 6 February 2024, a day that Aotearoa/NZ commemorates the...

AI - the 60 minute interview with Google's Sundar Pichai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=880TBXMuzmk 60 Minute interviewer, Scott Pelley talks with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google-Alphabet, James...

AI Festival - Indigenous Protocol - The Blind Spots of AI

An incredible opportunity I had to moderate a panel of exceptional people in the AI space from 'so called' Australia for this Goethe...

Maori Frameworks and Perspectives on AI with C-Minds and AI for Climate July 2022

I had the opportunity to give a masterclass on a Māori perspective on inclusiveness for ethical AI and talk to the incredibly inspiring...

An 'Immense World', The Metaverse, Te Ao Māori.

I have been reading the amazing book by Ed Yong, An Immense World. It is essentially about how each living creature has its way of...

A Blueprint for Equity and Inclusion in AI 2022

Earlier this year I was part of this amazing output for the World Economic Forum. Here is a link to the document and the panel I...

Intergenerational impact of AI -

In 2021, as part of my time with the World Economic Forum, and in conjunction with the University of Bonn in Germany, I was involved with...

Indigenous Technologies 2022

A privilege to be part of this panel initiated by the ASPI Sydney Dialogue, with Professor Langton, Honourable Nanaia Mahuta MP, Rae...

Māori Lens on the AI LifeCycle -

Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably one of the historically most impactful technologies for business, the economy and society. Much...

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Why we must consider the intergenerational impacts of AI

Article published for the World Economic Forum. Regulation is needed to ensure AI does not perpetuate historical inequities, harming not...

Sara Stratton

Article for the World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum is an organisation I knew nothing about till 2019! They are “the International Organization for Public-Private...

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The Impact Series - Sara Stratton

Aotearoa and the world is beginning to awaken to the realisation that Maori values and beliefs, so long squashed under colonial societal...

Sara Stratton

Te Tiriti o Waitangi – a values framework for our digital future?

“Te Tiriti o Waitangi couldn’t be more relevant than it is today, to be the tool and template for collaboration and innovation” Sara...

Sara Stratton

Tikanga in action

From pōwhiri to dishes to eating and sleeping in the same whare, tikanga is embedded in every action. Rangatiratanga, manaaki,...

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Te Ao Māori News - Tikanga Māori lens on Artificial Intelligence

Māori tech advisor Sara Stratton (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi) was appointed onto the world economic forum's global future council for artificial...