Āhau is a FOSS project from Aotearoa New Zealand, built to meet the data needs of Māori. This talk will share insights from thinking in a less Eurocentric way about data, and how the need for data sovereignty has lead us to p2p data models, which fit really well with human-focused systems. Over the last 3 years, we've built a desktop application on secure scuttlebutt that is currently in use by hapū and iwi (tribal groups) to record family histories and create tribal registries.
Slides: https://mixmix.gitlab.io/fosdem22-ahau/#/
Repo: https://www.gitlab.com/ahau/ahau
Homepage: https://ahau.io/
Technologies:
- secure scuttlebutt - http://dev.scuttlebutt.nz, https://scuttlebutt.nz (p2p messaging)
- tangle-js - https://gitlab.com/tangle-js (used to build ssb-crut) (CRDT-like tech)
- hyperdrive - https://github.com/hypercore-protocol/hyperdrive (hyper/ DAT for large files)
- sodium-native - https://github.com/sodium-friends/sodium-native (encryption)
