Kaitiakitanga
Kaitiakitanga Program and Network
Te Whaiti Nui-a-Toi children
guard and share Whirinaki,
their culture, language and values
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5.7.2 "Whirinaki Interactive" a Website / Multimedia Enterprise based on nature - Project Details:Description: See Project roadmap We are working towards establishing "Whirinaki Interactive" an organisation specialising in Website, Multimedia and Video design and production that will develop learning programmes and resources that can be shared with the world via the web. On 19/12/06 we made a funding application to the Digital Strategy Community Partnership fund to cover this and also to extend broadband access to all major homes in our community. This project embraces many groups in our community (including the Minginui Village Council and the Whanau Support Group) into an Ohu Structure (For description of an Ohu Our vision is for this to be an enterprise project embracing our iwi, senior students at our Kura, young school leavers and others in our community. This will initially provide support for the Kaitiakitanga program activities (website, videos etc) and will help build connections with our international network of friends and supporters, some of whom we expect to volunteer their skills to help grow it. It will allow our children to share the richness of Whirinaki with others via the web, thus buffering our fragile and unique ecosystem from the pressures of tourism and providing "access" for those unable to travel here in person. We want our people to grow skills that will later attract long term commercial work of this type to the valley.
Over the 2006 summer holiday programme we filmed the tramping trip that our youth are planning. Our concept is to " Share our adventures and experience with children sick in Starship Hospital" Our Kura has been given two Apple computers by an American visitor who was impressed by what we are doing and wanted to help. This project will involve tertiary students from AUT and others volunteers visiting Te Whaiti to mentor us over vacation periods. We also hope to produce a series of five minute filler documentaries for Maori Television and / or Enviroschools, that will show our place, culture and activities. Our young people will later assume responsibility for maintaining and enhancing all the Whirinaki websites, being mentored in this task by external volunteers and tertiary student teams. As well as developing technical skills, this project will require that we learn how to establish, advertise and operate a commercial enterprise. Such a enterprise needs to be self sustaining, so we will need to work out how to fund it, and cover this cost by securing contracts. We already have some space earmarked for this or similar enterprise activities at the new Whirinaki Enterprise Centre which we are currently refurbishing. Outcomes expected:
Start Date: Already well underway with student projects at AUT and elsewhere Budget: ECSD funds budgeted to cover some learning to get people up to speed. The main cost will be student accommodation and Koha for mentoring work. We will require a dedicated computer for website development. We already have Digital video camera and computer video editing facilities loaned for us to use. We will be looking to the Govermnent Digital Strategy Connecting Communities fund or similar for the second phase of establishment phase. Nominal Project Leader: Peter Goldsbury until sites move to Te Whaiti, but someone local will be invited to assume this role asap. Project Team: Since mentoring and filming is planned as a vacation activity this is involving Whanau Support who create the holiday programme. Issues Register:
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NOTICES AND ACHIEVEMENTS: Our gift to you - download our Free Whirinaki Wall Calendar "Re-designing our future" youth forum with Michael Braungart - 30 Aug What Andree a sustainability writer discovered about Kaitiakitanga |
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| Please note that this site is under development. It is a prototype to help design its structure, content and navigation. An * in a menu is used to show a future function that is currently not yet available. We are working to establish a multimedia organisation in our community to carry out ongoing development. (Our students at Te Kura Toitu o Te Whaiti Nui-a-Toi were awarded third place in the 2003 NZ school web challenge). feedback please to temporary webmaster: |
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Students and adults on courses at our Kura actively are actively encouraged to use technology and new media to express themselves and communicate in more effective ways. As part of the Kaitiakitanga program many of the students have been involved in video filming and interviewing to build the confidence to take on this work. Our Whanau Support Group obtained video equipment to allow the junior children to film their September 2004 school holiday programme.