Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 32, Number 1, 1 January 2015 — OHA in the Digital Age [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OHA in the Digital Age

t is such an exciting time for OHA as we enter the 21st Centurv and the

Digital Age. The world has its challenges with the advent of technology. Security and privacy issues are just the tip of the iceberg. OHA communications manager Garett Kamemoto remarked, and I agreed with him as the king was always ahead of his time: "If King Kalākaua were here when

Apple iPhones went on sale, he'd be the first in line!" Andthis isjustonereason whyAct 195 should be repealed. Technology software ean identify not only ancestral history but be kept track through iCloud. Way cheaper than spending millions of dollars ($27M Akaka Bill) and the Native Hawaiian Roll, Kana 'iolowalu ($4M+). IMHO, it would have been more fruitful, productive if OHA gave all the Kau Inoa enrollees and in fact, ALL the Hawaiian people iPads fllled with apps on educational information about OHA and Native Hawaiian history, issues,

etc. Interaction could take plaee with OH A through digital means and

to express their mana'o. OHA must be more inelusive, more transparent so that our people ean TRUST the Trustees onee again. Aunty Gladys Brandt was my mentor, as well as Senator T.C. Yim, and I have always admired her grace and dignity she carried as an OHA Trustee. David Shapiro said it best, "Any accepted path forward must rise from the

Hawaiian community, and the state and federal governments have no business trying to organize or control it" ("Take eue from Hawaiians and end enrollment effort," Star-Adver-tiser, Volcanic Ash, May 18). Our former Governor and the Legislature should not have created a law that mandated an issue that was OHA' s kuleana. E kala mai if I am being disrespectful, but just wanted to share. Hau'oli Makahiki Hou and May Akua Bless Everyone! ■

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