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		<title>Radio station develops app to spread Gagana Samoa to the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 22:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager A new language app developed for Gagana Samoa &#8212; the Samoan language &#8212; has been launched in Aotearoa New Zealand. Samoa Capital Radio in Wellington, the oldest Samoan radio station in Aotearoa, is behind the production and development of the app. Samoa&#8217;s Acting ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/authors/susana-suisuiki">Susana Suisuiki</a>, <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/">RNZ Pacific</a> journalist, and <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/authors/moera-tuilaepa-taylor">Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor</a>, <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/">RNZ Pacific</a> manager</em></p>
<p>A new language app developed for Gagana Samoa &#8212; the Samoan language &#8212; has been launched in Aotearoa New Zealand.</p>
<p>Samoa Capital Radio in Wellington, the oldest Samoan radio station in Aotearoa, is behind the production and development of the app.</p>
<p>Samoa&#8217;s Acting High Commissioner to New Zealand, Robert Niko Aiono, said it would help to bridge the gap for people wanting to learn more about the language.</p>
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<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve made this app available and it caters for a lot of Samoans who are born in New Zealand,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Not only in New Zealand but everywhere else in the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>With Samoan being the third-most spoken language in New Zealand, Samoa Capital Radio initially thought language classes delivered on Zoom was the best way to draw in learners.</p>
<p>However, it was decided developing an app would be better as it was a tool that can be accessed anywhere, any time.</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Labour of love&#8217;</strong><br />
Work on the software began in January and according to the radio station&#8217;s social media manager, Murray Faivalu, it was a &#8220;labour of love&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;We started to get a team together; get an advisory panel to advise us because no one can claim that they&#8217;ve got the knowledge of everything in terms of the Samoan language,&#8221; Faivalu said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We had two lecturers from the National University of Samoa, one of them being Dr Niusila Eteuati who was able to bring an academic perspective to the language; we got one of the teachers from Samoa who&#8217;s teaching the language and the Language Commission.&#8221;</p>
<p>Faivalu said he hopes the app helps users overcome their shyness when trying to converse or pray in Samoan.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a big population of people who associate as Samoans and a lot of them are young,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;A lot of them may know some Samoan but being able to speak it is a whole different thing.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some of the young ones get embarrassed when they go up to do the prayer at family gatherings.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Basic language</strong><br />
The app covers the most basic of the Samoan language &#8212; from the spelling, grammar, placement of macrons and glottal stops. Audio is also built in so users can hear how words are meant to be pronounced.</p>
<p>&#8220;When you read Samoan on its own, you lose the meaning of it &#8212; so unless you have those glottal stops, the macrons, you won&#8217;t get the actual meaning of what you&#8217;re trying to say.&#8221;</p>
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<figure style="width: 1050px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com/image/upload/s--nwSESH8p--/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050/v1688594021/4L6ATUK_Samoa_Capital_RadSamoa_Capital_Radio_CEO_Afamasaga_Tealu_Moresi_jpg" alt="Samoa Capital Radio CEO Afamasaga Tealu Moresi" width="1050" height="787" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Samoa Capital Radio chief executive Afamasaga Tealu Moresi . . . Image: RNZ Pacific</figcaption></figure>
<p>At the launch, Pacific Peoples Minister Barbara Edmonds shared how she became distant from speaking Samoan.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Like many of our families who crossed the Pacific Ocean to come to New Zealand, we too had many families come to stay with us, and my cousins came to live with us.</p>
<p>&#8220;My cousins, who could only really speak Samoan, became quickly frustrated when they went to school, and they started giving other kids beatings because they couldn&#8217;t understand what they were saying,&#8221; Edmonds said.</p>
<p>&#8220;So what my dad said to us was, we needed to speak English more, so we could help teach our cousins how to speak English. So unfortunately as time progressed, Gagana Samoa came less and less out of my mouth.</p>
<p><strong>Youngest and fastest growing</strong><br />
&#8220;With the Samoan population being one of the youngest and fastest growing [in New Zealand], it&#8217;s clear that we need to do everything we can to support the next generation to understand and use our language.&#8221;</p>
<p>School student Ti&#8217;eti&#8217;e Frost is eager to improve his Samoan speaking skills, especially as he is the only member of his family who has yet to master the language.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sometimes I&#8217;ll be speaking Samoan and there will be people who grew up speaking it who will make a joke about my Samoan,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Right now, I feel like I&#8217;m 60 percent with my Samoan, but hopefully by using this app I get to 100 percent.&#8221;</p>
<p><em><i><span class="caption">This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ.</span></i></em></p>
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		<title>NZ&#8217;s opposition &#8216;need to go back to school&#8217; over bilingual sign attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2023 09:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Rayssa Almeida, RNZ News reporter New Zealand&#8217;s Māori Party co-leader says the opposition National Party should go back to school if it thinks including te reo Māori on road signs is confusing. In a transport meeting yesterday in Bay of Plenty, National&#8217;s spokesperson Simeon Brown said introducing the language to road signs would make ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/authors/rayssa-almeida">Rayssa Almeida</a>, <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/">RNZ News</a> reporter</em></p>
<p>New Zealand&#8217;s Māori Party co-leader says the opposition National Party should go back to school if it thinks including te reo Māori on road signs is confusing.</p>
<p>In a transport meeting yesterday in Bay of Plenty, National&#8217;s spokesperson <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/490741/they-should-be-in-english-national-to-ditch-te-reo-maori-traffic-signs">Simeon Brown said introducing the language to road signs would make them &#8220;more confusing&#8221; and they &#8220;should all be English&#8221;</a>.</p>
<p>On Monday, Waka Kotahi said its He Tohu Huarahi Māori Bilingual Traffic Signs programme was going out for public consultation.</p>
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<p>If successful, the programme would include te reo Māori in motorway and expressway signs, destination signs, public and active transport signs, walking and cycling signs, general advisory and warning signs.</p>
<p>Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said having the language included on road signs will help those in the process of learning te reo.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is an environment where there&#8217;s more non-Māori learning reo than we ever had in the history of Aotearoa. It&#8217;s important that we embrace our nation hood, including our indigenous people and our language.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We spent a long time trying to make sure we don&#8217;t lose our language, so having our culture in our roads is not just about helping those who are fluent Māori speakers, but so those who are in our education system learning reo can see it reflected around our environment.&#8221;</p>
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<figure style="width: 1050px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" src="https://rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com/image/upload/s--zCWLwMEw--/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050/v1661479693/4LMJKXT_Speaker_election_Debbie_Ngarewa_Packer_3_jpg" alt="Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer" width="1050" height="700" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer . . . &#8220;It&#8217;s never too hard to understand the official languages of Aotearoa.&#8221; Image: RNZ</figcaption></figure>
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<p><strong>&#8216;Make an effort&#8217;</strong><br />
She said Brown should go back to school if he thought te reo Māori on road signs was confusing.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s never too hard to understand the official languages of Aotearoa. Whether it will be making an effort to understand te reo or sign language, for example.</p>
<p>&#8220;These are all a critical part of our nation and if he [Simeon Brown] needs to go back to school or take some time off Parliament to be able to understand our language so be it.&#8221;</p>
<p>There had been Māori traffic signs, Māori names, in this nation for a very long time, Ngarewa-Packer said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not so sure why he [Simeon Brown] is so confused now.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Te Pāti Māori co-leader said Brown&#8217;s comments were separatist.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a real ignorant alarmist way to be politicking.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Twenty percent of our population is Māori. If we see a large [political] party basically trying to ignore 20 percent of this population, then can we expect them to do that to the rest of our multiculture, diversity and languages that we see coming forward in Aotearoa?&#8221;</p>
<p>She said most New Zealanders would enjoy seeing multilingual road signs.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think we are a mature and sophisticated country and generally, most of us, actually really enjoy not only seeing our indigenous language but also other languages.</p>
<p>&#8220;[Not having bilingual signs] It&#8217;s an attempt to take us backwards that I don&#8217;t think many are going to tolerate.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8216;<strong>They should be filling pot holes&#8217; &#8211; National<br />
</strong>National&#8217;s transport spokesman Simeon Brown said Waka Kotahi should be filling pot holes instead of looking into including te reo Māori in road signage around the country.</p>
<p>&#8220;NZTA should be focusing primarally in fixing the pot holes on our roads and they shouldn&#8217;t be distracted by changing signage up and down our country.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Most New Zealanders want to see our roads fixed, it&#8217;s their number one priority.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brown said the National Party was open to bilingual information, but only when it came to place names signage.</p>
<p>&#8220;When it comes to critically important safety information the signage needs to be clear and understandable for people in our road, most of whom who speak English.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to keep the balance right between place names, which we are very open for bilingual signage, and critical safety signs where is really important people understand what the sign is saying,&#8221; he said.</p>
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		<title>TVNZ Breakfast host talks up &#8216;diversity&#8217; role of interpreters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2020 20:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By AUT News Television New Zealand Breakfast host John Campbell has highlighted the essential work that translators and interpreters do. Associate Professor Ineke Crezee and Auckland University of Technology (AUT) interpreting graduate Dr Mustafa Derbashi were interviewed on Breakfast on International Translation Day, September 30, to help raise awareness of the profession. &#8220;Translators are vital ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By <a href="https://news.aut.ac.nz/">AUT News</a></em></p>
<p>Television New Zealand <em>Breakfast</em> host John Campbell has highlighted the essential work that translators and interpreters do.</p>
<p>Associate Professor Ineke Crezee and Auckland University of Technology (AUT) <a href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2020/08/31/challenges-of-an-interpreter-at-the-christchurch-terrorist-sentencing/">interpreting graduate Dr Mustafa Derbashi</a> were interviewed on <em>Breakfast</em> on International Translation Day, September 30, to help raise awareness of the profession.</p>
<p>&#8220;Translators are vital to helping minority communities get equal access to public services, like courts, like doctors, like government assistance,&#8221; Campbell said.</p>
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<li><a href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2020/08/31/challenges-of-an-interpreter-at-the-christchurch-terrorist-sentencing/">Challenges of an interpreter at the Christchurch terrorist sentencing</a></li>
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<p>Associate Professor Crezee told Campbell that being an interpreter was about being &#8220;somebody&#8217;s voice&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;And you have to be humble, because you cannot drown out their voice. You have to represent it as it is,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Dr Derbashi <a href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2020/08/31/challenges-of-an-interpreter-at-the-christchurch-terrorist-sentencing/">interpreted for victims</a> at the sentencing for the Christchurch mosque attack terrorist at the High Court in Christchurch in August.</p>
<p>He said that when he came to New Zealand in 2001 he could not speak a word of English.</p>
<p>Prior to that he grew up for 29 years in a United Nations refugee camp in Jordan, which was when he made the decision to help others.</p>
<p>&#8220;This profession just makes me really feel privileged, because I have to professional, to be impartial, and to help people to be understood as they are.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>The Pacific Media Centre collaborates with other AUT news sources.</em></p>
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		<title>Fijian Language Week &#8211; critical for NZ Pacific grandparents to be looked after</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By AUT Pacific It is Fijian Language Week in Aotearoa New Zealand, and to celebrate, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) has launched the Fiji episode in its Pacific language video series – &#8220;Adapting to a changing world, shaping resilient futures&#8221;. Narrated in Fijian (with English subtitles) by an 18-year-old-girl speaking to her grandparents, the video ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By <a href="https://news.aut.ac.nz/">AUT Pacific</a></em></p>
<p>It is Fijian Language Week in Aotearoa New Zealand, and to celebrate, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) has launched the Fiji episode in its Pacific language video series – &#8220;Adapting to a changing world, shaping resilient futures&#8221;.</p>
<p>Narrated in Fijian (with English subtitles) by an 18-year-old-girl speaking to her grandparents, the video puts the spotlight on the older Pacific population and the collaborative research being carried out through the Healthy Pacific Grandparents’ project, as part of AUT’s Pacific Islands Families Study (PIFS).</p>
<p>PIFS director Associate Professor El-Shadan Tautolo said it was critical Pacific grandparents had the resources they needed to ensure they were well looked after.</p>
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<p>“Our older Pacific adult population, aged 65 years and over, is growing faster than our younger population, and they’re living longer too,” said Dr Tautolo.</p>
<p>“There are huge challenges to face with ageing, and this project was about working with 100 of our elderly population to find out about their experiences, health and wellbeing, in order to help them develop solutions that make their lives easier as they get older.”</p>
<p><strong>Key study findings:</strong></p>
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<li>Working with older people as co-researchers supported them to identify challenges and develop their own strategies to address them.</li>
<li>Prioritising foot care screening and maintenance for older people led to improved mobility, independence, and reduced likelihood of going to hospital, and</li>
<li>There is a need to improve digital literacy of older people and identify digital tools that are helpful for them as they age.</li>
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<p><strong>Future video release dates:</strong></p>
<p>•Niue – Sunday, 18 October 18</p>
<p>•Tokelau – Sunday, October 25</p>
<p>To watch each video as it is launched, follow the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKkKW7dJswdsb2uq3FYc0kg">AUT Pacific on YouTube</a>.</p>
<p>The Healthy Pacific Grandparents’ project is funded by the Ageing Well National Science Challenge.</p>
<p><em>The Pacific Media Centre collaborates with other AUT news sources.</em></p>
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		<title>Cook Islands episode in AUT Pacific language series launched</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Cook Islands language video. Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Cook Islands episode in AUT’s Pacific language video series – &#8220;Adapting to a changing world, shaping resilient futures&#8221; – is out now. The video is narrated in Cook Islands Māori (with English subtitles) to acknowledge the language being celebrated in Aotearoa this week. Pacific Islands ]]></description>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz">Pacific Media Centre</a> Newsdesk</em></p>
<p>The Cook Islands episode in AUT’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/autpacific">Pacific language video</a> series – &#8220;Adapting to a changing world, shaping resilient futures&#8221; – is out now.</p>
<p>The video is narrated in Cook Islands Māori (with English subtitles) to acknowledge the language being celebrated in Aotearoa this week.</p>
<p>Pacific Islands Families Study (PIFS) data in 2002, and then again in 2011, indicated that Pacific children in the study, were three times more likely to suffer hearing problems from ear diseases compared to other children.</p>
<p>Associate Professor El-Shadan Tautolo, director of the Pacific Islands Families Study,  said that alongside the need to understand what was driving these concerning patterns, the findings also drew attention to the importance of screening children early on for any hearing issues.</p>
<p>“We can’t underestimate the importance of screening,” said Associate Professor Tautolo.</p>
<p>“It enables us to uncover and identify a range of developmental issues that, if detected early, can be addressed and enable our Pacific children to reach their full potential.”</p>
<p><strong>Release dates for future videos</strong><br />
To watch each video as it is launched, follow the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/autpacific">Pacific at AUT Facebook page</a> or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKkKW7dJswdsb2uq3FYc0kg">follow on YouTube</a>.</p>
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<li><b>Tuvalu –</b> Sunday, September 27</li>
<li><b>Fiji &#8211; </b>Sunday, October 4</li>
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		<title>Elite groups ‘contain’ nuclear food safety debate, says researcher</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Jean Bell in Auckland A loose collection of elite groups shape the global language and thinking around food safety in the nuclear era, says a researcher who has been studying the Fukushima disaster in Japan seven years ago. This cohort, formed in the 1960s and dubbed by the researcher as the “Transnational Nuclear Assemblage”, ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By Jean Bell in Auckland<br />
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A loose collection of elite groups shape the global language and thinking around food safety in the nuclear era, says a researcher who has been studying the Fukushima disaster in Japan seven years ago.</p>
<p>This cohort, formed in the 1960s and dubbed by the researcher as the “Transnational Nuclear Assemblage”, includes government and business institutions that produce ruling texts on radiation protection that determine safe levels.</p>
<p>A core idea was that of narrative and approach to issues, especially relating to different “realities”, said Karly Burch, a doctoral candidate at the University of Otago who was speaking at a public seminar hosted by AUT&#8217;s Pacific Media Centre.</p>
<p>The seminar focused on the governance of “safe food” after the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster">Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant explosions</a> in the wake of the 9.1 magnitude <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami">Tōhoku earthquake</a> and tsunami on 11 March 2011.</p>
<p>“Multiple realities are possible, but sometimes the ruling elite wants to enact a certain reality and we are convinced there is only one way to do things but in fact there may be many.”</p>
<p>The anniversary of the disaster was <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/11/national/japan-marks-seven-years-since-devastating-3-11-disasters/#.WqisdTCYOUk">last Sunday</a>.</p>
<figure id="attachment_27683" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-27683" style="width: 680px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-27683" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Karly-680wide.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Karly-680wide.jpg 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Karly-680wide-300x200.jpg 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Karly-680wide-630x420.jpg 630w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-27683" class="wp-caption-text">Researcher Karly Burch speaking at the Fukushima seminar. Image: Del Abcede/PMC</figcaption></figure>
<p>Burch moved to Japan in 2008 and lived in the Kansai region. After two years, she moved to Europe to do her masters degree research in agroecology. At the time of the disaster, she was in Austria and she returned to Japan.</p>
<p><strong>Radiation discourse</strong><br />
Her research “questions how the Japanese government and agricultural industry encourage people to eat food that possibly contain TEPCO’s radionuclides, and how this works”.</p>
<p>Radionuclides are unstable isotopes that release particles to reach a more stable state, Burch said.</p>
<p>Ionising radiation is the most concerning radiation as it can damage cells. These radionuclides cannot be sensed by humans and radiation machines are required to identify objects or food with radionuclides.</p>
<p>When thinking about institutional ethnography and tracing ruling discourses, Burch began to consider how the ruling discourses and the language used to discuss radiation emerged.</p>
<p>She also took into account how discussion around safe food is “contained” within these ruling discourses, and “how do we all participate within that containment”.</p>
<figure id="attachment_27684" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-27684" style="width: 680px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-27684" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Sylvia-Karly-680wide.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="454" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Sylvia-Karly-680wide.jpg 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Sylvia-Karly-680wide-300x200.jpg 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Sylvia-Karly-680wide-629x420.jpg 629w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-27684" class="wp-caption-text">Postdoctoral researcher Dr Sylvia Frain of the Pacific Media Centre (left) with Fukushima seminar presenter Karly Burch. Image: Del Abcede/PMC</figcaption></figure>
<p>Burch used institutional ethnography as a way to trace how discourse, documents or media link everyday people to this attempt to rule and coordinate the way people consume and think about food safety.</p>
<p>Burch also borrowed theory relating to material semiotics from science and technology studies.</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Untouchable&#8217;</strong><br />
She said that while science has been considered almost “God-like and untouchable” in the past, material semiotics considers how all types of objects, both human and non-human, are used and involved in scientific research.</p>
<p>“It’s not a controllable system, there’s human and non-human actors relating with each other,” Burch explained.</p>
<p>“The discovery of xrays and radioactivity dates back to the 1890s,” Burch said.</p>
<p>The International Committee on Radiation Units and Measurements was formed as a response to the damage radiation was causing, with people beginning to suffer injuries or even dying due to exposure to radioactivity, Burch said.</p>
<p>“Scientists were looking at ways to discuss radioactivity with each other. They needed to have shared units and measurements.”</p>
<p>Jim Marbrook, a documentary maker and AUT lecturer in screen studio production, attended the seminar.</p>
<p>Marbrook has twice been to Japan researching a film he is working on, and found the seminar interesting.</p>
<p>&#8220;I thought it was a really interesting topic to research,&#8221; said Marbrook. &#8220;It was particularly interesting how she analysed the discourse of protection agencies&#8230;and compared that to the dialogue that was going on between the people who had to evacuate.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Jean Bell is contributing editor of the Pacific Media Centre&#8217;s Pacific Media Watch project.</em></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/events/safe-food-governance-aftermath-fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-disaster">The Fukushima seminar</a></li>
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		<title>Te Reo Māori should be compulsory in NZ primary schools, says pop-up survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new online survey by Te Ipukarea, the National Māori Language Institute at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), confirms that attitudes towards Te Reo Māori are changing. “Both Māori and Pākehā think that Te Reo Māori is an important part of New Zealand’s national identity and should be compulsory in primary schools. This is what ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new online survey by <a href="http://www.teipukarea.maori.nz/">Te Ipukarea</a>, the National Māori Language Institute at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), confirms that attitudes towards Te Reo Māori are changing.</p>
<p>“Both Māori and Pākehā think that Te Reo Māori is an important part of New Zealand’s national identity and should be compulsory in primary schools. This is what people want for their children and grandchildren,” says Professor Tania Ka’ai, director of Te Ipukarea.</p>
<figure id="attachment_19634" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-19634" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-19634 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Professor-Tania-Kaai-200tall.jpg" width="200" height="290" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-19634" class="wp-caption-text">Professor Tania Ka’ai &#8230; the rest of the world looks to New Zealand for inspiration and guidance on how to keep indigenous language alive. Image: Te Ipukarea/AUT</figcaption></figure>
<p>The vast majority of survey respondents agree or strongly agree that the Māori language should be compulsory in New Zealand primary schools, including 83 percent of Māori, 80 percent of New Zealand European/Pākehā and 78 percent of other ethnicities.</p>
<p>An even larger proportion – 95 percent of Māori, 94 percent of New Zealand European/Pākehā and 90 percent of other ethnicities – agree or strongly agree that the Māori language is an important part of New Zealand’s national identity.</p>
<p>The pop-up survey was completed by 5391 visitors to the Te Aka Māori-English Dictionary online.</p>
<p>Conducted in partnership with the Māori Language Commission, the survey sought to gather data on how the online dictionary is used, the language proficiency of users and attitudes towards Te Reo Māori.</p>
<p>Those surveyed identified as Māori (58 percent), New Zealand European/Pākehā (35 percent) and other ethnicities (7 percent). They were evenly distributed by age. And, the largest groups by occupation were professionals (37 percent) and students (20 percent).</p>
<p><strong>Looking for inspiration</strong><br />
Professor Ka’ai says the rest of the world looks to New Zealand for inspiration and guidance on how to keep indigenous language alive.</p>
<p>Scandinavian countries like Finland, Norway and Sweden are exploring Māori language immersion models such as Kura Kaupapa and Kohanga Reo – the latter of which was the archetype for Hawai&#8217;i’s Pūnana Leo.</p>
<p>“We are world leaders in language revitalisation. The next step is for government to make Te Reo Māori compulsory in primary schools. Now, let’s lead the world in this,” says Professor Ka’ai.</p>
<p>According to Statistics New Zealand, 377,073 students were enrolled in New Zealand primary schools in 2016 – 72 percent received no Māori language education, 25 per cent studied Māori as a subject or equivalent and 3 percent were involved in Māori language immersion.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2016 06:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Talebula Kate in Suva A United States national has been deported after swearing at the President of Fiji, Jioji Konrote, last week, it was reported today. Director of Immigration Nemani Vuniwaqa confirmed this in a government statement saying Karen Seaton, a citizen of the United States, was deported from Fiji after she breached the ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By Talebula Kate in Suva</em></p>
<p>A United States national has been deported after swearing at the President of Fiji, Jioji Konrote, last week, it was <a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=381079">reported today</a>.</p>
<p>Director of Immigration Nemani Vuniwaqa confirmed this in a government statement saying <a href="http://www.fijileaks.com/home/deported-am-sitting-in-the-airport-immigration-broke-into-my-hotel-room-this-morning-and-forcefully-removed-my-phone-refused-embassy-consult-and-deported-me-as-far-as-la-will-board-in-an-hour-seaton">Karen Seaton</a>, a citizen of the United States, was deported from Fiji after she breached the terms of her residency permit by yelling an obscenity at the President on November 30, 2016.</p>
<p>&#8220;This unprovoked use of the &#8216;f word&#8217; directed towards Fiji&#8217;s Head of State cannot be tolerated and Karen Seaton was subsequently detained and escorted onto a plane bound for the US,&#8221; Vuniwaqa said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Karen Seaton&#8217;s appearance before a parliamentary committee had no bearing whatsoever on the circumstances of her deportation,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p><em>Talebula Kate is a Fiji Times reporter.<br />
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<p><em>Asia Pacific Report editor:</em> Correspondents have since challenged <em>The</em> <em>Fiji Times</em> and Fiji government version of this deportation, blaming the incident on the &#8220;heinous Land Sales Act&#8221; and a &#8220;clearly provoked&#8221; outcry.</p>
<p>&#8220;The heinous Land Sales Act unjustly criminalises foreign-property owners retrospectively, forcing foreigners to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in building homes on properties (on outer islands without the infrastructure to accommodate building) purchased prior to the laws enactment,&#8221; writes Gene Catrambone.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ms Seaton’s anger was directed at the Act and any reasonable witness would attest to her legitimate right to protest the law’s unfairness.&#8221;</p>
<p>The correspondents also criticised the role of the &#8220;censored&#8221; media.</p>
<p>Read their comments below.</p>
<p>Seaton herself has also <a href="http://www.fijileaks.com/home/deported-am-sitting-in-the-airport-immigration-broke-into-my-hotel-room-this-morning-and-forcefully-removed-my-phone-refused-embassy-consult-and-deported-me-as-far-as-la-will-board-in-an-hour-seaton">rejected</a> the &#8220;slanderous, unsubstantiated allegations&#8221; in an email to <em>Asia Pacific Report</em>.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-06/deportation-of-karen-seaton-from-fiji-labelled/8097730">Deportation of Karen Seaton &#8216;illegal&#8217; &#8211; Pacific Beat</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.fijileaks.com/home/deported-am-sitting-in-the-airport-immigration-broke-into-my-hotel-room-this-morning-and-forcefully-removed-my-phone-refused-embassy-consult-and-deported-me-as-far-as-la-will-board-in-an-hour-seaton">Karen Seaton, Fiji resident permit holder, deported over land rights &#8211; Fijileaks</a></li>
<li><a href="http://fijivillage.com/news-feature/US-citizen-who-verbally-abused-the-President-deported-by-the-Immigration-Department-5kr92s/">US citizen who verbally abused President deported</a></li>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Auckland University of Technology&#8217;s annual Samoan Language Week debate &#8211; that &#8220;technology will be the death of Samoan language&#8221; (o le a liu efuefu le ala le gagana ona o le faatekonolosi)  &#8211; was enjoyed by a large and vocal group at AUT&#8217;s South Campus last week. The two teams comprised a mix of AUT ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="stcpDiv">Auckland University of Technology&#8217;s annual <a href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/06/03/pacific-voices-connecting-with-samoan-language-myths-and-culture/">Samoan Language Week</a> debate &#8211; that &#8220;technology will be the death of Samoan language&#8221; (<em>o le a liu efuefu le ala le gagana ona o le faatekonolosi</em>)  &#8211; was enjoyed by a large and vocal group at AUT&#8217;s South Campus last week.</div>
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<p>The two teams comprised a mix of AUT students and community members with AUT researcher Salā Fa&#8217;asaulala Tagoilelagi-Leota as the chair.</p>
<p>“This topic really hit a nerve,” says Tagaloatele Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop.</p>
<p>She adds that everyone has a personal view- from Samoa’s Consul-General Faaolotoi Reupena Pogi who was guest of honour, to the many teachers, students, government department staff community members and other Samoan language experts in attendance at the event.</p>
<p>“The debate arguments have opened many eyes to the fact that the increased use of IT such as cell phones, Facebook is influencing Samoan language maintenance” she says.</p>
<p>“However, and not so well understood, is that this is also influencing the quality of our family life including how we relate to each other.”</p>
<p>She repeats the challenge raised by an affirmative team member – “Are Samoans starting to talk to a phone – not to people?”</p>
<p><strong>Taking care over technology</strong><br />
While the negative team won the 2016 trophy, both teams were in agreement that while technology is crucial, care must also be taken to ensure technology is used to advance and promote the Samoan language.</p>
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<p>Judge Fa’atili Iosua Esera, president of the Association of Samoan language teachers in New Zealand (FAGASA), praised the debate members for the quality of their preparation and arguments which featured a mix of Samoan understandings and current research and for &#8220;the absolutely beautiful oratory and the many little touches of Samoan humour” which Fa’atili said, “also reinforced the seriousness of the message.”</p>
<p>AUT’s annual tradition of hosting this debate has again brought the community together, says Tagaloatele.</p>
<p>While the debate has been an excellent start to Samoan Language Week and to the celebration of Samoa’s Independence, it has also provided considerable food for thought, “especially to the many who almost guiltily reached down during the debate and turned off their cell phones,” says Tagaloatele.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 07:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Language and culture can tell us a lot about where we come from. For these New Zealand-born Samoans, this at the heart of truly understanding who they are. The Pacific Media Centre&#8217;s TJ Aumua reports. A group of New Zealand-born Samoans meet every Tuesday night at Newton Pacific Island Church (PIC) to connect with the ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Language and culture can tell us a lot about where we come from. For these New Zealand-born Samoans, this at the heart of truly understanding who they are. The Pacific Media Centre&#8217;s <strong>TJ Aumua</strong> reports.</em></p>
<p>A group of New Zealand-born Samoans meet every Tuesday night at Newton Pacific Island Church (PIC) to connect with the Samoan language and their culture.</p>
<p>The 10-week Fa’amatai Bilingual class, run by the Pasifika Education Centre (PEC), is a first step for those wanting to learn Samoan rituals and protocols.</p>
<p>The tutor of the class and also PEC Pasifika cultural adviser, Alaelua Taulapapa Leasoiloaifaleupolu Malesala, says the class was important as it allows the community to stay connected through language and culture.</p>
<p>“Many of our New Zealand-born Samoans and even some people that were born in Samoa travelled to Aotearoa at a very young age,&#8221; he says.</p>
<p>“They are now in positions of leadership in the New Zealand community which works with a lot of our Samoan community but they don’t have the ability to communicate with our Samoan people in the times that they do come together.”</p>
<p>This class ensures Samoan knowledge is imparted to those that reside in New Zealand, he says.</p>
<p>For many of the students, the class has come to represent a revitalised connection to their language, culture and ultimately embracing their Samoan roots.</p>
<p><strong>Passing on to grandchildren</strong><br />
Class member Peter Ah Kuoi says it is not only a &#8220;reconnection&#8221; for him, but learning Samoan language allows him to pass what he has learned on to his grandchildren.</p>
<p>“In our class today we learned about a legend, and it was a beautiful story, I think I could tell it to grand kids.</p>
<p>“I kind of missed the boat with [teaching] my children [Samoan] but I now have five grandchildren who I think at this age would be sponges for all these myths and legends of who we are and where we come from.</p>
<p>PIC church member in Newton Theresea Miller says the class will help her connect and better communicate with members of the Samoan community.</p>
<p>“We go on visitations [for church] and it’s good when we go Samoan families that we know the [cultural] processes.”</p>
<p>Mary Anne Copeland says she is taking the class to learn about the formal protocols and Samoan speeches.</p>
<p>“I’m really good with street talk I guess, talking within my own family. But being able to stand up and say a <em>lauga</em> (speech) and to stand up and be able to do a lot of the formal protocols, which normally I wouldn’t do, that’s what the extension of this programme has been able to help me with.”</p>
<p><strong>Staying informed</strong><br />
Alaelua Taulapapa Leasoiloaifaleupolu Malesala encourages all Pasifika people to attend the language classes to stay informed and connected with one another.</p>
<p>“We must always make that connection with home,” he says.</p>
<p>“This is your opportunity to be exposed, be supported and gain some learning for yourselves so you can continue on with your role and responsibly within your aiga (family).”</p>
<p class="h5"><strong>This story is in celebration of </strong><a href="http://www.mpp.govt.nz/language-culture-and-identity/pacific-language-weeks/samoan-language-week/"><strong>2016 Samoan Language Week</strong></a> (29 May-4 June 2016)</p>
<p class="h5">The theme for this year is:<em>“E felelei manu, ae ma’au i o latou ofaga: Birds migrate to environments where they survive and thrive.&#8221;</em></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Charlot Salwai, Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Leingkone and Education Minister Jean-Pierre Nirua have visited Noumea within the framework of the regional cooperation agreement aiming to strengthen links between New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Alain du Boispean, the French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Vincent Bouvier, the High Commissioner of the French Republic in New Caledonia, and ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="first-paragraph"><span class="paragraph-0">Prime Minister Charlot Salwai, </span></span>Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Leingkone and Education Minister Jean-Pierre Nirua have visited Noumea within the framework of the regional cooperation agreement aiming to strengthen links between New Caledonia and Vanuatu.</p>
<p>Alain du Boispean, the French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Vincent Bouvier, the High Commissioner of the French Republic in New Caledonia, and Philippe Germain, the President of the government of New Caledonia attended the joint committee meeting, which is the decision-making body set up under the regional cooperation agreement.</p>
<p>For the first time in its 14 years of existence, French was the working language of the committee.</p>
<p>A call for projects this year was launched from February 29 to April 8  and a total of 51 projects were received and reviewed during the technical committee meeting in Noumea on May 18.</p>
<p>This year the Prime Minister of Vanuatu is giving priority to education, francophone relations and training.</p>
<p>Nine projects were retained during the joint committee on May 20 with a total budget of 36.5 million vatu.</p>
<p>This programme is financed by the government of New Caledonia and by France under the Pacific Funds.</p>
<p><strong>Chosen projects</strong><br />
The chosen projects are being distributed as below:</p>
<p>• 40 percent of credits will go to scholarships for students in AES Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree</p>
<p>• 25 percent to university and scientific projects</p>
<p>• 18 percent to cultural exchanges and francophone activities</p>
<p>• 17 percent to teachers’ training and to the improvement of digital technology in education</p>
<p>The joint committee provided an opportunity for both New Caledonia and Vanuatu to consider an ambitious strategy for closer relation and further cooperation, with the aim to engage in a comprehensive partnership.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Melanie Cooper A documentary exploring why New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) isn’t a language option in secondary schools, despite being one of New Zealand’s official languages, has seen AUT University first-year student Lisa Thompson win the &#8220;NZSL in the Media&#8221; Award. The annual NZSL Awards were held in Wellington last weekend – during NZSL ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By Melanie Cooper</em></p>
<p>A documentary exploring why New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) isn’t a language option in secondary schools, despite being one of New Zealand’s official languages, has seen AUT University first-year student Lisa Thompson win the &#8220;NZSL in the Media&#8221; Award.</p>
<p>The annual NZSL Awards were held in Wellington last weekend – during NZSL Week – and Thompson won the award category for an individual or media organisation that demonstrates a commitment to promoting NZSL and Deaf awareness.</p>
<p>Her short six-minute documentary <em><a href="https://vimeo.com/144084654">The Future is in Your Hands</a></em> was also entered in last year’s Outlook for Someday film challenge and was one of the 20 winning films selected out of 156 entries that came from all over New Zealand and involved 550 young people.</p>
<p>Languages lecturer Lynette Pivac says the message of the video is so important.</p>
<p>“I absolutely support this goal: from when a child starts school until they finish – sign language should be an option. It would make school life so easy for any Deaf child who came to the school if other students could sign, or likewise for a hearing child with Deaf parents or grandparents who might come to the school,&#8221; she says.</p>
<p>&#8220;They would feel more like part of the community. Sign language wouldn’t be a strange thing but just a normal part of everyday life in the community.”</p>
<p>“We’re so proud of Lisa winning the award, it’s fantastic. It’s amazing that she is taking the initiative to advocate like this and she is only a young person herself.”</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2016 05:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Organisers were delighted with the success of the first of three national Ethnic Communities Engagement summit in Auckland on Saturday &#8211; and the role of the New Zealand mainstream media was in the spotlight. The summit was organised to create a platform for better understanding and engagement, and celebrate the role of many cultural groups ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Organisers were delighted with the success of the first of three national Ethnic Communities Engagement summit in Auckland on Saturday &#8211; and the role of the New Zealand mainstream media was in the spotlight.</p>
<p>The summit was organised to create a platform for better understanding and engagement, and celebrate the role of many cultural groups in New Zealand society; build a sense of unity among other ethnic people; and to explore how they can contribute and add value to the community and the nation.</p>
<p><em>Asia Pacific Report</em> was at the summit and this photogallery by the <em>Pacific Media Centre&#8217;s</em> <strong>Del Abcede</strong> features the diverse nature of the summit.</p>
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<li><a href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/04/30/mainstream-nz-media-takes-pasting-at-multicultural-seminar/">Mainstream NZ media takes a pasting at multicultural summit</a></li>
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					<description><![CDATA[Te Karere TVNZ New Zealand is now officially part of the world&#8217;s largest ever free trade deal. Local officials joined ministers from 11 other countries to sign the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. But long before the ink was dry, the Auckland CBD rocked with thousands of people in protest. Reported in Te Reo.]]></description>
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<p>New Zealand is now officially part of the world&#8217;s largest ever free trade deal.</p>
<p>Local officials joined ministers from 11 other countries to sign the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.</p>
<p>But long before the ink was dry, the Auckland CBD rocked with thousands of people in protest.</p>
<p>Reported in Te Reo.</p>
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		<title>Pasifika Renaissance calls for Pacific oral histories on video</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Pacific Media Centre Pasifika Renaissance, an NGO dedicated to Pacific oral histories, has appealed to groups documenting traditional knowledge to upload stories to their YouTube channel. Among recent collaborators are Papua New Guinean journalist and community worker Milton Tyotam Kwaipo, from Rabaul, who runs a multimedia studio in Madang Province. After earning a BA ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz" target="_blank">Pacific Media Centre</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/PashifikaRenaissance" target="_blank">Pasifika Renaissance</a>, an NGO dedicated to Pacific oral histories, has appealed to groups documenting traditional knowledge to upload stories to their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmyAfrAD0u4MpUF9jLgjag" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>.</p>
<p>Among recent collaborators are Papua New Guinean journalist and community worker Milton Tyotam Kwaipo, from Rabaul, who runs a multimedia studio in Madang Province.</p>
<figure id="attachment_9306" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-9306" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9306" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Milton-Kwaipo-300x226.png" alt="Milton Tyotam Kwaipo ... multimedia studio in Rabaul. Image: Pasifika Renaissance" width="300" height="226" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Milton-Kwaipo-300x226.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Milton-Kwaipo-80x60.png 80w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Milton-Kwaipo-558x420.png 558w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Milton-Kwaipo.png 680w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-9306" class="wp-caption-text">Milton Tyotam Kwaipo &#8230; multimedia studio in Rabaul. Image: Pasifika Renaissance</figcaption></figure>
<p>After earning a BA majoring music, journalism and public relations at the University of Papua New Guinea in 2006, he later worked for NGO World Vision International in PNG, Timor Leste and Vanuatu from 2009 to 2015.</p>
<p>He also earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Community Development in 2014.</p>
<p>In 2015, he started Milate Multimedia Produxion that focuses on using multimedia (music, audio, radio programs, video and photography) for social empowerment through sharing of ‘positive stories’, focusing on local communities developing themselves rather than waiting for outside sources to aid them.</p>
<p>He is also a musician, playing a flute, saxophone and other instruments.</p>
<p>Pasifika Renaissance’s appeal said:</p>
<p><em>Since many interested and motivated people have asked us about possible participation in our NGO’s activities, we decided to invite you to document oral traditions from knowledgeable elders in your village or island by a video/digital camera, tablet or cellphone to upload your videos on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmyAfrAD0u4MpUF9jLgjag" target="_blank">YouTube page</a>.<br />
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<p><em>The topics of your elders’ narrations include legends, folktales, colonial histories, experiences of WWII and dying cultural practices.</em></p>
<p><em>Narrators can speak in their languages or English in your videos, since the target of your videos is younger people on your island.</em></p>
<p><em>This project will primarily enable you to record disappearing oral traditions of your home island and share them with your people.</em></p>
<p><em>Furthermore, through this project, we seek your active involvement in revitalising your island’s traditional culture and creating a larger “renaissance” movement in a wider Pacific region.</em></p>
<p><em>In addition, if you have an opportunity to take videos of cultural practices (e.g. fishing, festivals, rituals, dances) on your island, please share them with us to upload them on our YouTube page.</em></p>
<p><em>If you are interested in this project, please send us a message on FB or at <a href="mailto:pasifika.renaissance@gmail.com" target="_blank">pasifika.renaissance@gmail.com</a>, so we’ll send you more detailed info. We are very looking forward to your participation in our endeavor!<br />
</em></p>
<p><em>We are very keen to collaborate with a researcher, government official, and interested community member of the Pacific islands to pursue our common goals. Please contact us to discuss possible collaboration. Thank you!</em></p>
<p>The latest upload to the channel has been a &#8220;Western-style&#8221; dance &#8220;Kahlek Dil&#8221; from Pohnpei.</p>
<p>In addition to earlier Western influence in island music in the 19th century, Pohnpeian people learned several forms of foreign dances during the German administration (1899-1914).</p>
<p>One of them is marching dances, which were created through interactions with foreigners in the Marshall Islands and spread throughout Micronesia in the early 1900s.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Report by Pacific Media Watch The loss of language is still a major concern for Pacific communities. With another year of language week celebrations almost over, the Auckland University of Technology has produced a series of videos to promote the languages. Community engagement manager at AUT’s Manukau campus Jody Jackson-Becerra says the series urged young ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Report by <a href="http://www.pacmediawatch.aut.ac.nz" target="_blank">Pacific Media Watch</a></p>
<p>The loss of language is still a major concern for Pacific communities. With another year of language week celebrations almost over, the Auckland University of Technology has produced a series of videos to promote the languages.</p>
<p>Community engagement manager at AUT’s Manukau campus Jody Jackson-Becerra says the series urged young people to get involved.</p>
<p>“In the past lots of different cultural activities are done, which doesn’t necessarily reach many people, and so doing the videos and encouraging our Pacific students to attempt to speak a language, even if they were not confident, was a great way to promote the language.”</p>
<p>The project also gave a way for topical issues other than languages to be addressed, like in the Tuvalu language piece.</p>
<p>The issue of climate change was highlighted, which sparked interest in other Pacific youth.</p>
<p>Reporter/Editor: Alistar Kata, contributing editor of the Pacific Media Centre’s Pacific Media Watch project.</p>
<p>Interviewees:<br />
Jody Jackson-Becerra<br />
Cynthia Patali<br />
Mabel Muller</p>
<p>Video clip sources:<br />
Auckland University of Technology<br />
Sunpix/Tagata Pasifika<br />
Visit Auckland</p>
<p>(CC) Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, AUT University, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. www.pmc.aut.ac.nz</p>
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