Solid Community AU

About Solid Community AU

We take this opportunity to acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the lands and waterways of Australia. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present. As part of the Australian National University community we thank the traditional custodians on whose land we live, work and play, and particularly the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people of the Canberra region.

We are developing technology and applications that put privacy of our data first. In addition to our collection of community apps (and support packages) that we highlight below, our focussing project is lead by the Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service Aboriginal Corporation (GYHSAC) in Yarrabah, North Queensland. Working with our team at the Software Innovation Institute (SII) of the Australian National University they have built a first-of-a-kind digital health platform to support integrated health care of Indigenous patients with diabetes. SII is using Solid Pod technologies to ensure that individual patients have the ownership of their own health data. Clinic patients get the following benefits from this platform:

Better communication between patients and the health clinic to maintain health;
Patients retain full control over their own sensitive health data with better privacy and security;
Encourage traditional food and medicine intake for better health care.

Since May 2024 we have been running a trial of the GYHSAC Patient App with community patients in Yarrabah. This pilot study has demonstrated the possibilities of Solid Pods for returning data sovereignty to the individual, through deploying a prototype infrastructure on the community server at yarrabah.net.

In parallel to this project the ANU Software Innovation Institute is developing the open-source solidpod package for flutter to support developers of apps who also want to use Solid Pods for their data store.

Software Showcase

We have many Solid apps under development. Give them a go.

Our apps are written in Flutter and are open source, and run on any platform. You can try them out in the browser here or visit their github homes. We are also publishing them on the Google Play Store. They are not all there yet, but keep an eye out for them. We are creating the future, so please bear with us as we bring it all together.

Tap on the run icon for any of the below apps to explore the web version of the app.

NotePod

Make, update, and share notes.

HealthPod

Collect your health data in one place.

Moviestar

Rate and share movies and TV shows.

InnerPod

A meditation session timer.

CVPod

Manage your Curriculum Vitae.

KeyPod

A simple key-value store.

TemplePod

Our Solid Pod app template.

MSFatigue

Our Solid Pod app for collecting Surveys.

ToMyPod

Pipeline data to your Pod.

Yarrabah Patient App

Access health data populated by local Clinic.

Clinic Trial Configurator

Configure a medical device through the app.

Yarrabah Clinic App

Population health status.

Yarrabah Health Worker App

Health worker support.

Want to know more about Solid Pods?

Here are some frequenty asked questions about Solid Pods, the technology behind it, and specific apps. Note that the following is only a very high level defintion of the technology. If you wish to learn much more take a look at the Solid Project AU Website

01 What is Solid?

Solid (Social linked data) is a server API specification that lets individuals and groups store their data securely in decentralised Data Vaults storing user PODs (Personal Online Datastores). PODs are secure web based data stores for different data types. When data is stored in a POD, its owners control the people and applications that can access it. For details visit the Solid Project Solid Project

Call To Participate

We are keen to connect with other developers in Australia developing Solid Pod technology and apps, ideally as open source software. Please contact us if you would like to play a role in the future of data or if you have an app that you would like listed here.

The Team

Lead by Professor Graham Williams, Chief Scientist of the Software Innovation Institute (SII) of the Australian National University (ANU), we are developing new privacy-first technology to support app development using the Flutter/Dart ecosystem. With a focus on open-source software and a culture of sharing, all of our package and app development is freely available for anyone to use and build on. Please get in touch if you would like to collaborate with us.