quote: Last week, the Vana team, led by @artieart88, ran a workshop in the Dominican Republic on using Vana as Digital Public Infrastructure for its 11M citizens to move their data around freely across government services and the private sector. Institutional adoption of crypto is also about ensuring it is used by everyday people to solve real problems. | When a country builds a bridge, any car can cross it, and it keeps working long after the builder leaves. So why do we accept critical digital infrastructure that locks us into one company's system? When WhatsApp went down for six hours in 2021, millions lost the way they reach their doctor, their bank and their government. By contrast, any phone can call any other phone because of open standards. Data should work the same way. It should move freely between platforms on decentralized rails that the community can own. Enter @vana. Back from the Regional Digital Public Infrastructure Forum in Santo Domingo and more convinced than ever: data portability has to be public infrastructure, not a platform feature. Thank you, Vice-Minister Armando J. Manzueta Peña, Ministerio de Administración Pública RD and Oficina Gubernamental de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación de la República Dominicana, for the opportunity. The Dominican Republic should be proud of what it is leading, and I'm excited to be involved in your amazing work!