Kāhui Anamata operates Māori-led cultural-data infrastructure that operationalises CARE principles at the schema layer, publishes three citable methodology papers, and ships two free public tools (the CARE Compliance Auditor + Cultural Provenance Embedder). This page maps our work to Tindall's 'Identity and social cohesion' focus area and 'Mātauranga Māori' giving priority, addresses your entity eligibility for a company-led initiative, and lists concrete deliverables for a Direct Donation.
Tindall's 'Identity and social cohesion' focus area names three things: amplifying the leadership, influence, visibility, and representation of Māori and Pasifika; protecting and revitalising Māori and Pasifika culture and traditional practices; and strengthening social cohesion through inclusion, trust, and shared purpose. Kāhui Anamata ships infrastructure that does all three, but at the data layer, where it can be audited, replicated, and built on.
Your giving priorities are Mātauranga Māori, lived-experience voices, and place-based leadership. Our three methodology papers (Cultural Review as a Database-Enforced Workflow; Operationalising CARE Principles; Both-Party Attestation as a First-Class Data Primitive) are operationalisations of Mātauranga Māori in software. by which we mean 'Māori ways of knowing, being, and doing' translated into Postgres triggers, RLS policies, and audit trails. The kaitiaki rōpū governance model + iwi-gate visibility controls + named-actor accountability rows in the consent log are exactly the kind of place-based + lived-experience infrastructure your giving priorities weight.
Honest scope: Tindall's exclusions list names 'Arts, drama, performing arts, museums, and galleries.' Our waiata releases fall under that exclusion and are NOT the angle here. We pitch the research + cultural-data infrastructure, not the music.
Each surface is publicly accessible at the link below. None requires a Tindall account. None is a screenshot mockup. these are real, deployed, auditable.
Maps to Tindall priority
Identity & social cohesion → operationalising CARE = giving Indigenous data sovereignty a tool that's actually used
Maps to Tindall priority
Identity & social cohesion → protecting & revitalising Māori culture in digital assets (cameras, archives, GLAM collections)
Maps to Tindall priority
Giving priority: place-based leadership + lived-experience voices (these counts ARE the voices + the gates)
Maps to Tindall priority
Identity & social cohesion → reciprocity, not aggregate dashboards (the relational structure matters)
Maps to Tindall priority
Mātauranga Māori priority → these papers ARE operationalised Mātauranga (Māori ways of knowing → Postgres triggers + RLS)
These are concrete, scoped deliverables. not a wishlist. Each is a 3-month workstream with a public artefact at the end. Costs are NZD and inclusive of GST.
We'd rather be honest about boundaries than pitch something Tindall can't fund. This list mirrors Tindall's published exclusions.
Three published methodology papers. Each has version 1.0 dated 2026-07-29, references its source code, and discloses limitations. Independent peer review is the next step (a deliverable in this proposal).
Why cultural safety in digital infrastructure cannot be achieved by application-layer gating alone. The principal contribution is a Postgres BEFORE UPDATE trigger that makes the invariant 'no release without cultural sign-off' structurally inseparable from the data model.
Read on GitHub →DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21693726A mapping from each CARE principle to specific Postgres policies, application-layer checks, and Local Contexts Hub integration. The contribution is not the principles (which pre-date this work) but the principle → enforceable mechanism translation.
Read on GitHub →DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21693730Why cultural-infrastructure reciprocity cannot be reliably modelled by aggregate dashboards OR monetary ledgers. The contribution is a Postgres view (v_koha_pair_exchanges) that records each exchange with bilateral consent + per-counterparty context + named actors + timestamps.
Read on GitHub →DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21693732Tindall's Direct Donations support 'work that can be scaled up or has significant regional or national reach.' The pathway is straightforward, and Tindall accepts applications in English, Te Reo Māori, or NZSL.
Step 1: Confirm entity eligibility. Kāhui Anamata Limited is the applicant. We are a company registered on the New Zealand Companies Office register, so we need to demonstrate charitable purpose + not-for-profit separated from any for-profit operations. The Not-for-Profit branch is Kāhui Anamata's cultural / research / public-good work; the for-profit branch is Anamata Records (artist distribution). The two branches are operationally + financially separated. Our Companies Office registration details are available on request, and we are prepared to provide both sets of accounts.
Step 2: Use this page as the brief. The 5 evidence surfaces + the costed deliverables above are the application. Cross-link any of them into Tindall's online form. We're happy to record a te reo Māori walkthrough if that's preferred (NZSL on request).
Step 3: Submit + follow-up. Apply via the Tindall portal. We'll be available for any follow-up. Note: Tindall explicitly cannot support urgent or retrospective applications. this is a forward-looking proposal for a 3-month workstream.