Waikato Tainui is counting on technology to help realise its dream of having 80 percent of its people fluent in te reo Maori by 2050.
Its Tikanga Ora Reo Ora strategy to be launched at this weekend’s Waikato Tainui Games at Hopuhopu includes close relationships with education providers from kohanga reo to universities, as well as community networks like Te Ataarangi.
Chair Rahui Papa says about 20,000 of the tribe’s 70,000 members say they have some fluency now, so the strategy has to reach the other 50,000.
"And that includes our whanau in Australia and abroad and we want to put in place online resources, online reo action plans so that our whanau in Australia, when they do decide to come home because inevitably they will come home, then they can just fit in to the whanau as if they have never been away," says Rahui Papa
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