Ensuring Mana Motuhake of Digital Assets

From the start the Digitaonga team was committed to developing not just digital assets, but a digital infrastructure that supports a kaupapa Māori framework. After extensive consultation with hapū/whānau, museum partners, global indigenous advisors and tech experts we began to develop our platform.

For the last 8 months the Digitaonga team have been working on a DAO platform that registers taonga on the blockchain, enables kaitiaki to make collective decisions over digital assets, record decision making and ensure mana motuhake outside of ‘big tech’ through decentralised storage. The design of the platform is deeply informed by Kaupapa Māori principles and is a tool for transformation - one that allows for the mana of taonga to be enhanced through the digitisation process.

We are currently in the testing stage and the beta version platform will be launched in the coming months.