Karaitiana Taiuru is an innovative Asia Pacific experienced, commercially and community focused ICT professional. He is also a pioneer of Maori Internet and Software technologies, and an advocate for a multilingual Internet, and customized localizations.

Karaitiana resides on the ICANN NomCom and APRALO boards promoting multilingulim, cultural representation and IDN's. He 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 Maori Usenet group, nz.soc.maori. Karaitiana is 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 Taiuru has been an advisor to the United Nations, NZ government, several international and national boards as well as many community groups.

A selected list of Karaitiana's publications and software can be found on this site.

Recent Publications:

Ten IT Cost Saving Tips for Not for Profit Organisations.
Maori Language Domains
Dictionary of Computer Related Terms

All publications are now available to be read online and printed.