Āhau: Māori Identity & Data Sovereignty
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Describes Āhau, a New Zealand FOSS desktop app that uses secure scuttlebutt (p2p messaging) together with tangle-js (CRDT-like ssb-crut), hyperdrive (hypercore/DAT for large files) and sodium-native encryption to support Māori data sovereignty. Explains why non‑Eurocentric, human‑focused requirements pushed the project toward peer‑to‑peer data models and shows the app’s use by hapū and iwi for recording family histories and building tribal registries.
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