The blockchain technology is transforming human rights, allowing to store evidence of russian war crimes in a way no one can tamper with - not even russians.
This will help make sure justice is served for Ukraine.
Ukraine DAO has helped Project Dokaz of the Starling Lab (Stanford + USC) document russian war crimes. The data collected by our Ukrainian team in Kharkiv has now been submitted to the International Criminal Court.
Huge thank you to Oleksii Karpovych and Alexander Sharma for their incredible work.
“Trustless Evidence”
The blog post by Ukraine DAO’s co-founder Alona Shevchenko, 12 June 2022
“The Starling Lab is one of Ukraine DAO’s most important partnerships. Helping them could easily be some of the most impactful work we’ve done. They use blockchain to record and store the world’s most important information - evidence of war crimes and genocide.
The data collected by our Ukrainian team in Kharkiv has now been submitted to the International Criminal Court, which is unprecedented work for a DAO to have been involved in.
Huge thank you to Oleksii Karpovych and Alexander Sharma for this incredible work.
The Starling Framework for Data Integrity
The Starling Framework for Data Integrity is a joint project between the USC Shoah Foundation and Stanford University’s Department of Electrical Engineering.
They are innovating with the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols to meet the technical and ethical challenges of establishing trust in our most sensitive digital records, such as the documentation of human rights violations, war crimes, and testimony of genocide. You can learn more about it by watching this video and visiting the Starling Lab’s official website.
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How did Ukraine DAO’s work with the Starling Lab start?
In spring 2022, our press secretary called us and said that she knew of a Web3 project that we were absolutely going to love. That’s how I was introduced to Jonathan Dotan, the director of the Starling Lab who’s now become a dear friend.
You may know him as the producer of the first season of the HBO show "Silicon Valley" (very excited to watch it, btw). The path from Silicon Valley to leading a Stanford-backed blockchain project is covered in this article.
Long story short: Jonathan and his team developed a technology that allows storing data about war crimes and genocide on an immutable ledger that no one can tamper with. Not even russia.
Treating Ukraine with respect
Apart from the immense utility of Starling Lab's technology for Ukraine, there are a couple more reasons why it's so important for everyone to support this project:
50% of the budget for their Project “Dokaz” (“Dokaz” means “proof” in Ukrainian) is dedicated to Ukrainian talents. I've been helping them with "Dokaz" free of charge but I always want to make sure that the Ukrainians doing the most dangerous and important part of the work are adequately compensated.
There is a lot of integrity and ethics behind how Starling Lab’s team are going about their work in Ukraine. Like any Ukrainian person right now, I’m heartbroken, often angry and sometimes very sensitive. Starling Lab’s conduct from what I’ve seen has been absolutely exemplary and I wish all specialists working with Ukrainians had the same levels of genuine empathy.
Huge thank you to the Starling Lab team for helping make sure justice is served for Ukraine and thank you everyone for reading this.
Media Coverage
Starling Lab and Hala Systems file Cryptographic Submission of Evidence of War Crimes in Ukraine to the International Criminal Court
CNN Exclusive: A crypto-based dossier could help prove Russia committed war crimes
The Starling Lab for Data Integrity - Social Media
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