Indigenous Digital Infrastructure – Securing Sovereignty & Self-Determination. Transformational projects building on #Cardano

Joined July 2023
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Mātou Collective retweeted
This team keeps pushing for the social economic and political changes #Cardano has been designed to achieve. @MatouCollective a cornerstone of values that match the ambition the Cardano Community formed around!
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So good to hear @Sudo_Scientist & @Bencho23522 on @MatouCollective F15 projects
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Mātou Collective retweeted
15 Sep 2025
Replying to @IOHK_Charles
Principles first communities are building on Cardano. They don’t get involved in FUD or the FOMO on memes, hypecycles, engagement or yield farming. Head down doing needs led R&D. Not compromising. Bringing economic identity and systems engineered to be incorruptible and upgradable to those asking for it.
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Mīharo! Ngā mihi. Thank you 🙏🏼 what a privilege to be featured alongside these OGs of the @Cardano ecosystem!
Last week we went out to talk about Web3 with digital nomads. ♥️🌐 @book_io @projectNEWM @landanodapp and @MatouCollective were some of the projects we showcased. 🔊 youtu.be/q9US9p7jQi0
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Mātou Collective retweeted
26 May 2025
Replying to @palmeconomy
Would be wonderful if you could please credit the original thinker whose work you’re using @benohanlon - it’s the #opensource way! For reference for our Cardano community, it comes from Microsolidarity out of the awesome generous mind of @RichDecibels medium.com/microsolidarity/m…
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Ngā mihi #Cardano we look forward to continuing to improve the Digital Identity Infrastructure *everyone* needs!
27 Apr 2025
The q&a in the gov tool has consistently not shown the answers supplied by the @MatouCollective team so they’ve been compiled here: clik.vc/qanda DReps please take a moment to read and support the team working to advance “Economic Identity For All” that is at the heart of the #Cardano mission. @SIPO_Tokyo @yutazzz @KyosukeTakatuki @btbfpark @CryptoYoda1338 @nagamaru_panda @StakeWithPride @wada_org @SociousDAO @YoadaStakepool @mikerogero @InputEndorsers @wolf31o2 @arcter @kenerik @LatamCardano @LucasMacchia2 @ChileStakepo @aticomismana @cryptocrow @jasonappleton The prop again, for ref: clik.vc/idt in the Research category up next.
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Kia ora #CardanoWhanau. What a journey. Our Treasury proposal is now, finally up, in its entirety on gov.tools/budget_discussion/…… almost… comments and (more importantly) the full and thorough answers to #DReps questions are still missing? cc. @IntersectMBO

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That’s what we will deliver: gov.tools/budget_discussion/… working with our Māori whanau, the OGs of collective, polycentric governnace to guide us and 1 of the OGs of the team @IOHK_Charles put together to carry Identus forward on the team.

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Economic Identity for all is why we’re here, right?
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The Promise of Blockchain for Digital Identity Panel by - Giorgio Zinetti from @Cardano_CF - Jo Allum from @VentureCentreIO, @MatouCollective - @anagri_e from @UNDPEurasia (Moderator) Learn how blockchain can help individuals control their info, protect privacy & access service
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#Cardano matters to us because it’s built for integrity, not just speed. It’s NOT trying to own your data. It’s trying to honour your mana. Who you are and what you bring. That’s a radically different starting point.
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How can DAOs help with authenticity for biz digital identity solutions? Jo Allum shared this toolkit from @MatouCollective matou.nz/indigenous-dao-tool… . . . Thanks to our audience for their questions at the The Promise of Blockchain for Digital Identity panel
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Mātou Collective retweeted
16 Apr 2025
Governance serves the people, not other way around. It's important we don't lose the sight of that. The accountability needs to be tangible so that people can match their actions with the words. While it may be all too confusing right now - history's not kind to BS. Always.
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Mātou Collective retweeted
16 Apr 2025
👉 Lesson for institutions Don’t just consult. Co-design. Don’t just onboard. Return power. Create affordances that uphold collective authority, not just technical functionality. Support the flourishing of diversity that is decentralisation's core UVP!
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Mātou Collective retweeted
16 Apr 2025
👉Digital ID must serve intergenerational wellbeing. 🖤🤍❤️ Whakapuāwaitanga me te pae ora 🖤🤍❤️ A system that’s ethical today but extractive tomorrow fails the Indigenous standard of care. We need infrastructure that sustains whakapuāwaitanga (holistic flourishing) across generations.
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#Korero 📢
16 Apr 2025
👉Replicating inequality happens by default. If we copy-paste institutional logic into decentralised systems, we just make exclusion faster. We need design that foregrounds lived experience, not abstract principles.
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Mātou Collective retweeted
16 Apr 2025
🗨️ Question 2: “In the push for digital transformation, how do we ensure that blockchain-based identity systems don’t replicate existing inequalities, but rather empower communities, particularly marginalized groups?”
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Every person in Cardano's ecosystem has a unique story, and those stories are part of our collective ethos. For the next few days, we'll be releasing quick 4-question interviews with some of the participants in the Cardano Constitution to celebrate this historic process. Starting out with @KoEngieAhau, Delegate from New Zealand, who was also elected Chair of the Definitions Committee and led the group over the finish line. 4 Questions: Who are you? Who are you representing? Why Cardano? Why is this Constitution important?
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