Māori working in the digital arena are about to get a boost and more opportunities to develop technology compatible with big international operations.
At the moment, just 2 percent of Māori and Pasifika people have careers in STEM - science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
However a kaupapa Māori tech company is working to change that - they've built an automatic speech recogniser that is attuned to te reo Māori.
Now Te Hiku Media has received $13 million over the next seven years, to improve and refine it.
That multilingual language platform, Papa reo, is opening doors for Māori developers. Meriana Johnsen reports.
