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What if every marae hosted a piece of the cloud?
A thought experiment in Māori data sovereignty: locally owned micro data centres that return skills, resilience, and a dividend to marae.
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Principal AI Strategist at Cloverbase. Microsoft MVP since 2012. Co-author of Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption. Host of The Intelligence Age Podcast with 837+ episodes.
Mark Smith · Principal AI Strategist14 years as Microsoft MVP837+ podcast episodes
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An Azure photogrammetry pipeline for less than two coffees
Phase 2 of my property digital twin turns 743 drone photos into maps and models on an Azure VM that exists as billable compute for about four hours a month.
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AI checks every mission file before my drone flies
My consumer Mavic 3 has no SDK, so repeatable survey flights depend on mission files. An AI inspection caught unsafe defaults and a 22.88-metre altitude error before...
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Why I started NZ Ledger as open financial infrastructure
NZ Ledger is my plan for open-source financial infrastructure designed for people, AI agents, and New Zealand businesses.
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We made four websites agent-ready with WebMCP
AI agents already visit our websites and interpret pages built for human eyes. This weekend, we gave all four sites a structured interface they can use safely.
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