From 5d6bb6482b8c3e6f84d11251cf2e480013689917 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TheFlow Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:17:38 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?docs:=20Update=20Potaua=20email=20draft=20?= =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=94=20add=20contact=20details=20and=20introducer=20name?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 --- docs/draft-emails-scholars.md | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/draft-emails-scholars.md b/docs/draft-emails-scholars.md index 2c075e5d..b21f769f 100644 --- a/docs/draft-emails-scholars.md +++ b/docs/draft-emails-scholars.md @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Balcairn, North Canterbury ## 4. Potaua Biasiny-Tule — Digital Natives Academy / UNESCO HILEG-ELT -**To:** [via introduction — confirm address] +**To:** potaua@internetnz.net.nz **Subject:** Request for critical review — Taonga-Centred Steering Governance (STO-RES-0010) --- @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Tēnā koe Potaua, My name is John Stroh. I am a retired technologist based in North Canterbury, working on a small research programme concerned with sovereign AI deployment for communities in Aotearoa, documented at agenticgovernance.digital. -I am writing to you — via [introducer's name]'s kind introduction — because we have produced a draft paper that attempts to address architecturally what you have been advocating for publicly: that tikanga should shape how AI operates for and with Māori. The paper, "Taonga-Centred Steering Governance: Polycentric Authority for Sovereign Small Language Models," proposes a governance architecture in which steering vectors — the mathematical instruments used to adjust language model behaviour at inference time — are governed polycentrically, with iwi and community authorities operating as co-equal peers to the platform operator rather than as downstream consumers of its corrections. +I am writing to you — on the basis of TeRata Kikairo's recommendation— because we have produced a draft paper that attempts to address architecturally what you have been advocating for publicly: that tikanga should shape how AI operates for and with Māori. The paper, "Taonga-Centred Steering Governance: Polycentric Authority for Sovereign Small Language Models," proposes a governance architecture in which steering vectors — the mathematical instruments used to adjust language model behaviour at inference time — are governed polycentrically, with iwi and community authorities operating as co-equal peers to the platform operator rather than as downstream consumers of its corrections. The central argument is that some domains of cultural knowledge are structurally outside the platform operator's authority to define or correct. Your work on UNESCO's High-Level Expert Lead Group on the Governance of Ecosystem-Level Transformation in AI addresses this at the ecosystem level — the question of how AI governance structures should accommodate, rather than subordinate, indigenous authority. Our paper arrives at a similar question from a different direction: what does a technical architecture look like that actually implements polycentric authority at the inference layer? @@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ I recognise that your commitments are substantial and that unsolicited requests Ngā mihi nui, + + John Stroh -agenticgovernance.digital -Balcairn, North Canterbury + +My Digital Sovereignty Ltd + +M +64272418020 + +Research Website: https://agenticgovernance.digital +Commercial Website: https://mysovereignty.digital