From Timbuktu to the Ukraine, blockchain technology is playing a role in preserving important artifacts.

“With this system, people will solve the problem of storage solutions,” Theresa Kennedy, founder of the Black History DAO, told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” show on Friday.

Kennedy, a self-proclaimed crypto-anthropologist, said that with Web3, people will be able to access and contribute to information that is aggregated on a blockchain.

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The Black History DAO, which is curated by members of its community, seeks to address the problem of preserving ancient African text, a similar problem that literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. tried to tackle years ago, Kennedy said. That project failed to preserve the Timbuktu manuscripts after Islamist rebels took control in 2013 and destroyed many of the documents. Some, however, were saved and are now living online.

Still, “a lot of money was put into it,” Kennedy said. “However, there was no permanent storage solution. And the project ultimately failed.”

His group is trying to disperse conservation efforts. “Instead of having one entity have custody or take over per se, we are creating a system to solve the problem of lack of place,” he said.

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During the same interview on “First Mover,” Ukrainian crypto entrepreneur Michael Chobanian discussed his efforts to preserve Ukraine’s history after the Russian invasion. Blockchain technology is being used to preserve 3D models of “the buildings, sculptures and cultural heritage” in Ukraine that are being destroyed, he said, while his platform is trying to find ways to map, store and transfer data to the cloud. to be able to tokenize them.