Doris AllhutterJun 15, 2024
Paris Marx

This is cool: Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand are building out a distributed storage network with eight sites built on Māori land to give “iwi and hapū the power to control and make decisions over their own data.”

https://waateanews.com/2024/06/04/world-first-data-storage-infrastructure-solution-built-by-iwi-maori-for-iwi-maori/

#tech #nz

World-first data storage infrastructure solution built by Iwi Māori, for Iwi Māori - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station

Media release: World-first data storage infrastructure solution built by Iwi Māori, for Iwi Māori Te Kāhui Raraunga Charitable Trust (TKR) is on a mission to provide a data storage solution like no other in the pursuit of mana motuhake when […]

Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
Jun 15, 2024 at 4:32amWeb
Show threadlevampyreJun 15, 2024
@parismarx When you said 'storage' I first thought about grain, mead and dried peas and such.
Show threadsoaprootJun 15, 2024
@parismarx Definitely cool. I wonder if running one or more Fediverse nodes is in their future.
Show threadSaager MhatreJun 15, 2024
@parismarx but, what kind of data, though. The article seems a bit vague about the nature of data stored in these data centers. Either that or I lost something in the Māori.
Show threadfLaMEdJun 15, 2024
@dexterous any data to do with the iwi (people/tribes)
Show threadSaager MhatreJun 15, 2024

@flamed I. Sorry if I sound dense, but that still doesn't quite explain it? Are we talking about things like land deeds and tax revenues? Or like personal medical histories? Or both?

Because I'm sure it wouldn't be social, cultural information as it doesn't make a lot of sense siloing that. You'd want that disseminated all over.

Show threadSaager MhatreJun 15, 2024

@flamed

It's just that I'm having a hard time figuring out what sort of private data regarding the entirety of the iwi people we're looking at that warrants multiple data centers.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to belittle the iwi or their data. I'm just having a hard time reconciling the apparent scale of the endeavour and the size of the data it's I tended for.

I'm genuinely curious as to how that circle gets squared. That's all.

Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Jun 16, 2024

@dexterous Any data their various organisations might need to store. The data storage provider doesn't need to specify the scope of what that might be, they're just offering a way for it to be under sovereign control.

@parismarx

Show threadTobyJun 15, 2024

@parismarx Every day we get a little bit closer to The Nine Billion Names of God.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God

The Nine Billion Names of God - Wikipedia