This paper aims to provoke further theorising and action by the Community Informatics community about working with Indigenous communities. In particular, we present research undertaken with the Indigenous Maori and Pakeha (European) community in Aotearoa/New Zealand as a case study to learn from. Maori are of interest because of their engagement with, and speaking out, about ICTs. We suggest th...

This paper presents some preliminary results of an original study to model the emergence of bilingual acoustic clusters of both New Zealand English and New Zealand Maori speech. This is performed using true on-line learning in a connectionist architecture. The study represents a joint collaborative analysis, which applies the bilingual data as training examples to a connectionist-based evolving...

Objective To investigate differences in breast cancer biological characteristics between ethnic groups in Auckland, New Zealand. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Auckland Breast Cancer Study Group. Participants All people diagnosed with breast cancer in the greater Auckland area between 2000 and 2005 who agreed to participate (1,577). Main outcome measures Size, grade, lymph node status...

The sedimentary sequences found within estuaries in the north west Nelson region of central New Zealand are investigated order to quantify timing end Post Glacial Marine Transgression. This has been identified as being relatively stable terms vertical tectonic movement during Holocene, but is yet yield any reconstructions eustatic sea level. In this study, we investigate Holocene infill a barri...