From Timbuktu to Ukraine, blockchain technology is playing a role in preserving significant artifacts.
“With this system, people will solve the storage solutions problem,” Theresa Kennedy, founder of Black History DAO, told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” on Friday.
Kennedy, a self-proclaimed crypto anthropologist, said that with Web3, people will be able to access and contribute to the information that is added on a blockchain.
The Black History DAO, which is curated by members of its community, seeks to address the problem of preserving ancient African text, a similar problem literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. tried to address years ago, Kennedy said. That project fell short of preserving the Timbuktu manuscripts, after Islamist rebels took control in 2013 and destroyed many of documents. Some, however, were saved and now live online.
(By Fran Velasquez)
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