ANU Software Innovation Institute

News, Research Articles & Projects

Explore recent news, research articles, and decentralised technology projects related to Personal Online Datastores, privacy-first infrastructure, and federated systems.

Community Event

Solid 2026 Hackathon: Building the Decentralised Web in Canberra

Join the ANU Software Innovation Institute, CBRIN, and the UK Open Data Institute for a three-day hackathon on privacy-first apps using the Solid protocol.

Hackathon Canberra Solid
Medical Research

Rio: Federated Privacy-First Data Collection in Medical Research

A participant-centred clinical trial platform using Solid PODs for decentralised, privacy-preserving medical data collection and analysis.

Solid PODs Clinical Trials Data Privacy
Data Security

Implementing Encrypted Private Data Sharing between Personal Data Vaults

A Trust-No-One security architecture for Solid PODs enabling end-to-end encrypted data storage and selective sharing using public-key infrastructure — applied to Indigenous health care and clinical trials.

Encryption Zero Trust Data Sovereignty
Open Source

Flutter Packages for Data Sovereignty and Privacy using Solid PODs

Three open-source Flutter/Dart packages — solidpod, solidui, and solid_auth — enabling developers to build cross-platform privacy-first apps connected to Solid Personal Online Datastores.

Flutter Open Source Developer Tools
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