Protecting indigenous digital sovereignty and planting the seed for a different relationship to technology, this episode covers the project of CoMapeo. Guided by Luandro who works at [Awana Digital](Luandro indigenous and community infrastrucure CoMap), and has walked many lands and spoken to communities across the world, while co-create what CoMapeo means in their contexts.
Building on the protocol Hypercore, the offline-first capabilities of CoMapeo enable communities to map out their territories and fend off oil companies, preserve their cultures and spoken tongues through the sister project Terrastories and even support the data-gathering on the biological diversity of animals in remote regions such as the Meli bees project. Another sister project to CoMapeo is Āhau which supports the linage-tracking of Māori tribes in Aotearoa (New Zealand).
As the largest active delay-tolerant and local-first implemented community project, CoMapeo shines brightly both in the present and as a guiding light for the future.
