Ahau (software)
| Original author(s) | Ben Tairea, Kaye-Maree Dunn and Sam Kaw[1]. |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows |
| Website | ahau |
Ahau is decentralised database software, developed as a way for Māori people to digitally record and collectively store their whakapapa (genealogical history).
It was created by Ben Tairea, Kaye-Maree Dunn and Sam Kaw, as a response to concerns Māori were expressing about the risk of losing privacy and data sovereignty, if the knowledge they hold about their ancestry is submitted to genealogy services using controlled by non-Māori.[2] Especially those hosted in datacentres outside the country, under the jurisdiction of governments who are not signatories to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
The founders originally intended to use a blockchain as their decentralised database, and Ahau graduated from the Centrality Accelerator program for blockchain startups.[3] But they switched to using the SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt) protocol to create connections between Ahau software running on any computer. Forming a distributed Whānau Data Platform where the privacy of whakapapa records can be protected, with strong encryption, as they are shared between the computers making up the platform.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/14-03-2019/digital-taonga-the-ambitious-bid-to-record-whakapapa-using-blockchain
- ^ https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mapuna/audio/2018852423/storing-whakapapa-online
- ^ https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/14-03-2019/digital-taonga-the-ambitious-bid-to-record-whakapapa-using-blockchain
- ^ https://ahau.io/technology.html
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