Karaitiana Taiuru
International Internet leader with a current focus on the Asia Pacific region. A Web Strategist/ Social Media consultant and Internet governance advisor. He is also an advocate for a multilingual and internationalized Internet and customized localizations.
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Karaitiana led the successful submission for the creation of the worlds first Indigenous 2nd Level domain .maori.nz, and was responsible for the creation of the worlds first Māori Usenet group, nz.soc.maori. He is also New Zealand's first indigenous moderated 2nd Level domain moderator, .iwi.nz
A key lobbyist for the implementation of a bilingual Domain Name System, and International Domain Names in New Zealand, as well as the use of macrons in computer technologies. Karaitiana participates at the international level of promoting and lobbying for greater non English language representaion where he shares his experiences and knowledge at conferences and to organisations by invite.
Experience and history
Previously, Karaitiana has been an advisor to the United Nations, NZ and
Pacific Islands governments, many international and national boards as
well as several community groups including the NZ Internal Affairs community.net
, Domain Name Comissioner WGs and 20/20 boards as well as an employee
and contractor of several NZ organsiations including Ngāi
Tahu, the state owned enterprise Māori
Language Commision, New Zealand Internal Affairs government department,
New Zeland subsidary Wordstream Corporation and Net Mania.
Compiling
resources on Google Wave and YouTube marketing.