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Description
In this session we hear from 3 speakers across 3 different continents. Each describes how they use IPFS to improve information access & preservation to benefit human knowledge and human rights.
A
We
began
with
a
project
of
taking
the
USC
showa
foundation's
Visual
History
archive
and
finding
a
way
to
get
it
onto
the
decentralized
web.
How
did
we
do
that?
Well,
we
started
with
ipfs
and
for
those
of
you
who
don't
know,
the
Visual
History
archive
is
a
archive.
That's
over
four
petabytes
worth
of
information.
It
has
the
video
testimony
of
the
survivors
of
genocide
from
over
10
different
conflicts.
A
We
did
this
with
Reuters
as
part
of
their
coverage
of
the
2020
election
and
for
the
78
days
between
the
election
and
the
inauguration.
We
work
to
put
photos
from
the
Reuters
newswire
and
actually
get
it
onto
the
decentralized
web
again
with
cids
and
ipfs.
We
continue
that
work
internationally
in
Hong
Kong
I'm,
looking
at
their
most
recent
elections,
ensuring
that
we
can
again
ensure
the
photographers
have
the
type
of
tools
that
they
need
to
protect
their
work,
especially
in
that
environment
in
Hong,
Kong
and
then.
A
Finally,
we
realized
that
the
work
we
were
doing
was
incredibly
relevant
for
chain
of
custody
of
information
that
is
critical
for
war
crimes
documentation.
We
began
that
effort
with
hola
systems-
that's
based
here
in
Lisbon,
and
we
deployed
the
technology
in
Northwest
Syria
and
brought
a
series
of
international
lawyers
to
the
table,
to
figure
out
actually
how
International
legal
principles
could
be
directly
applied
to
the
use
of
the
technology,
and
so
sadly,
it
was
that
work
that
prepared
us
for
the
recent
conflict
in
Ukraine.
A
When
the
conflict
broke
out,
we
immediately
jumped
to
action
and
figured
out
how
we
could
deploy
this
information
to
take
web
archives
from
Ukraine
and
start
to
preserve
them
for
the
Long
Haul.
This
work
I'd
like
to
make
an
analogy
around
it
that
it's
similar
to
taking
a
telegram
post
and
putting
it
into
an
Evidence
bag.
Why?
A
Because
we
need
all
of
this
type
of
information
in
order
for
it
to
have
the
best
chance
for
it
to
be
admissible
and
used
for
long-term
accountability
war
crimes
when
they
will
be
prosecuted
against
Russia,
it
will
likely
be
decades
from
now
in
which
that
adjudication
will
happen.
So
this
type
of
storage
that
we're
talking
about
here-
it's
very
high
stakes
and
it
needs
to
last
for
a
long
time.
A
So,
to
give
you
an
example,
here
is
a
telegram
post
that
was
taken
as
the
first
documentation
against
an
attack
on
School
17,
which
is
in
kharkiv
Ukraine's,
second
largest
city.
So
there
it
is
now
downloaded
using
web
recorder.
Philly
is
here
big,
shout
out
to
him
amazing
developer
in
the
ipfs
ecosystem
and
what
we
did
is
we
took
the
CID
and
we
registered
that
on
multiple
L
ones,
so
that
we
had
a
way
of
preserving
the
Integrity
of
that
image.
We
then
put
it
on
to
using
the
cad.
A
We
then
had
choice,
so
we
could
put
it
in
a
public
setting
if
that
was
appropriate
or
we
could
put
it
on
private
ipfs
clusters
or
then
move
it
over
to
filecoin,
as
you
can
see
here,
really
the
power
of
this
type
of
content
addressing
and
that
I
can
very
proudly
tell
you.
In
June
of
this
year
we
submitted
the
first
cryptographic
dossier
to
the
international
criminal
court
that
took
evidence
from
two
weeks
worth
of
attacks
in
kharkiv.
A
In
March-
and
we
are
continuing
to
do
this-
work-
we're
preparing
other
submissions
that
we
hope
to
get
done
by
the
end
of
the
year,
so
this
is
groundbreaking
work.
This
is
the
first
cryptographic
dossier
that
was
submitted
to
any
Court
in
the
world
and
we
did
it
with
your
help.
Thank
you
very
much.
We're
really
excited
to
be
part
of
the
ecosystem
and
please
reach
out
because
we're
here
to
work
with
you
all
thanks.
So
much
thank.
B
You
Jonathan
it's
been
great
working
with
their
team
as
well
in
the
past
year,
so
hi,
everyone,
I'm,
Phoebe,
I'm,
the
co-founder
of
Litecoin
and
lycoland.
So
me
and
my
team
has
been
building
a
decentralized
publishing
infrastructure
and
tools
for
Independent
Media
to
use
in
the
past
few
years,
the
social
context
and
political
landscape
in
Hong
Kong
escalate
to
put
our
product
into
tests
in
the
past
year.
B
B
And
the
first
thing
that
we
built
is
to
provide
a
piece
of
metadata
registry
layer
towards
their
publishing
work
before
it
is
stored
on
ipfs
called
the
iscn.
We
actually
borrowed
the
idea
of
ISBN
in
the
library
system
to
make
sure
there
is
a
process
of
metadata
to
be
added
on
when
things
are
published
to
the
internet.
B
That
also
include
their
storage
location
in
ipfs.
That
is
easier
to
rechrive
their
content
from
the
network
and
include
all
other
important
metadators,
such
as
licensing
and
stakeholders.
Information
Etc
and
the
second
thing
that
we
deliver
to
the
community
is
to
integrate
ipfs
with
the
WordPress
plugin,
for
example.
This
is
a
media
site
that
we
work
with
and
they
are
built
on
WordPress
to
start
to
publish
through
WordPress
and
the
ipfs
network.
B
C
C
Actually
for
several
days,
the
gateway.pf.ipfs
that
IO
was
completely
unaccessible
in
Spain,
so
that
left
us
a
pretty
strong
imprint
to
most
of
the
Catalan
citizens,
and
some
of
us
decided
that
we
had
to
do
something
about
it.
So
we
started
working
on
a
decentralized
voting
system
on
the
zika,
snugs
and
ipfs,
but
we
were
so
afraid
because,
like
there
was
people
in
prison
just
for
organizing
a
referendum-
and
there
are
people
attacked
as
terrorists
just
for
doing
minor
stuff.
So
we're
completely
paranoid
and
completely
fear
about
it,
and
we
couldn't
expose
ourselves.
C
We
had
to
work
on
this
protocol
just
in
complete
darkness,
we
couldn't
find
financing,
we
couldn't
build
a
community,
we
couldn't
hire,
and
after
two
years
when
we
felt
that
the
project
was
actually
like,
the
the
tension
had
fade
away
and
we
could
like
make
the
project
public.
We
were
quite
tired
and
quite
hurt
for
all
the
process.
C
If
that
was
not
enough.
Just
at
the
beginning
of
this
year,
citizen
lab
Canadian
organization
released
the
forensic
work
they've
been
doing
where
the
the
Spanish
States
basically
used
the
nsco
group
spy,
where
Pegasus
and
candiru
to
spy
over
our
Catalan
citizens,
including
the
president
activists,
politicians
developers
with
them.
C
D
A
So
for
us
it's
it's
choice
right,
because
content
addressing
doesn't
just
apply
towards
public
dissemination
of
information,
but
it's
also
the
ability
to
synchronize
between
private
parties
that
can
establish
their
own
infrastructure.
So
it's
it's
a
critical
component
to
allowing
human
rights
activists
to
make
the
choices
to
where
they're
put
their
data
and
and
how
they
can
protect
it.
Yeah.
B
Yeah
and
I
think
in
our
case
the
built-in
content
Integrity
check
is
and
allowing
for
decentralization
of
storage
is
very
helpful
towards
Independent
Media,
especially
those
who
don't
really
have
a
lot
of
resources,
and
they
don't
really
have
technical
team
on
their
team
to
use
it
which
happen
to
be
a
lot
of
our
target.
Audience
came
from
that
background
and
especially
when
media
got
shut
down
a
lot
of
individual
journalists
that
actually
go
on
reporting
themselves.
D
A
So
the
standardization
of
retrieval
is
something
that
is
really
important
and
ipfs
is
getting
more
and
more
performant,
but
the
Handover
between
from
retrieval
between
ipfs
and
filecoin.
Those
are
things
that
we'd
actually
really
love
to
see
because
they
each
of
them
serve
right
now,
a
very
different
purpose
and
similarly,
the
ability
to
retrieve
from
mobile
devices
is
something
that's
really
critical,
because
in
our
for
us,
the
Holy
Grail
of
all
this
is
for
a
simple
mobile
phone
to
be
the
node,
the
powerful
node
that
can
store
all
of
our
information.
C
I
will
Echo
that
too,
but
I
think
the
censorship
events
and
these
oppressions
will
keep
happening.
It
has
happened
in
Hong
Kong.
It
has
happened
in
catalania,
it's
happening
in
Iran,
so
those
are
really
high-end,
sophisticated
censorship,
and
sometimes
it's
usually
like
in
a
very
specific
critical
moment
in
time.
So
I
wonder
how
can
we,
as
a
community,
coordinate
to
support
these
communities
that
just
very
specific
moments
need
infrastructure
nodes
or
anything
that
can
support
this
specific
fighter
that
they're
doing.