The Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) chosen by DeHR’s technology partner, Competitive Edge Technology (CET), to create a platform for future HR applications and peer-to-peer hosting is Holochain. Enterprise participants in the network, approved by the DeHR Governance Group, will be eligible to install the CET application plug in framework and upload their employee data to the DLT.

Holochain and Web3

Brief History of Web3

Quotes from an article by Paul d’Aoust Web3, entangled dated 2nd February 2022

True to the original spirit of the internet, Web1 was all about decentralisation. Its big innovation was the hyperlink, allowing any author to connect their work to someone else’s without permission. And because anyone could create web pages and run a server (if they had the technical skills), anyone could be a publisher.

Slowly and then suddenly, everyone wanted to join the web party — but not everybody had the technical skills. So Web2 built big servers and easy-to-use software, then invited the whole world. It spread out a generous banquet, offering the power to create not just documents and links but conversations, calendars, photos, videos, music, lists, diagrams, and more. And by getting us all together in the same room, it really did become a party — an explosion in our capacity to connect and interact with each other.

However, we know how the story has unfolded since then. Web2 looked like a good idea at the time, but it’s turned out to have a dark side. We appear to have become ‘the product’, as they say, not the authors of our own lives as we’d thought.

The centralisation that enabled the capture of our online lives is inherent in the design of HTTP, the protocol that powers the web. Over the years, more and more people have called for a re-decentralisation — a new web, a ‘Web3’ that avoids the mistakes of the original web by design.