COMMUNITY PROJECT CONCEPTS

These are provided as concepts to demonstrate the application of the “Mauri Model”, and as a creative outlet. If you have any ideas you would like to gift to the project please used the Contact Us form or our socials (links at the bottom of the page).

Digital Sovereignty, Cultural Heritage, Indigenous Data, Whakapapa David Hovell Digital Sovereignty, Cultural Heritage, Indigenous Data, Whakapapa David Hovell

COMMUNITY PROJECT #411 - DIGITAL WHAKAPAPA ARCHIVE

Mission Statement:

To assert digital sovereignty over our "Digital Flesh" by establishing secure, marae-hosted servers that preserve oral histories, ancestral records, and photos for future generations.

The Needs Assessment:

Currently, much of our whānau history is stored on foreign-owned "Babylonian" servers (Facebook, Google, iCloud). This is a form of digital colonialism where our most sacred data—our whakapapa—is commodified and disconnected from the whenua. Furthermore, as our kaumātua pass away, we face a "Semantic Entropy" where oral histories are lost forever if not captured in a sovereign environment.

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