A permissioned blockchain network built on top of Hyperledger Fabric that aims to provide safer and more accurate decentralized storage of information on land ownership in Rwanda.
# About
`Nalanet` is a permissioned blockchain network built on top of Hypeledger Fabric that aims to provide safer and more accurate decentralized storage of information on land ownership in Rwanda.
# Origin Story
Rwanda is a bit of a magical place! Awesome place to call home. I am a little biased of course. That being said, however, land ownership has been traditionally a major source of interpersonal conflicts. How do you know who owns what land? What happens when someone rightly or falsely claims that a piece of land belongs to them? For a long time, there were paper certificates. But those could easily be forged, leading to even more conflicts and court cases. I hope that's starting to sound like a serious data problem. If not yet, I will define it more concretely.
In 2018, The UK GDPR Article five set out seven principles to safeguard personal data. Among the others, I would like to pay a special attention to the sections d and f. They dictate that personal data should be accurate and safe from potential destruction or damage.
- "(d). accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay (‘accuracy’);
- (f). processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures (‘integrity and confidentiality’).”
Now, as far as section (d) is concerned, Rwanda has taken some serious giant steps in the right direction. Every land is registered in a system that keeps track of who owns what and where. The friction is reduced, to a degree. That has lead to reduction in property conflicts.
The problem, for which we are proposing a potential solution is section (f). Personal data should be processed in "a manner …