HAVEN is open infrastructure for a digital life on human terms. Your identity, your data and your relationships are held by you, shared by choice, and backed by cryptographic proof, not by blind trust in a platform.
On today's platforms, value flows one way: people give their data in, the platform keeps it, and the value flows out to whoever pays. Every new service starts from zero, behind its own wall. In HAVEN, people hold their own data and connect directly, so value can be created at every connection, and what you bring to one service can be reused, with your consent, in the next. Lots more value is generated.
Nobody sits in the middle, so there's no single company, server or switch that everything depends on. Your information lives with you, in your own cell, and travels straight to the people and services you choose. Nothing has to pass through someone else's hands, and if one part drops out, the rest carry on.
You are the starting point, not the product. Services come to your data, with your permission. Your data doesn't go to them.
Every line is public, licensed MIT / Apache 2.0 and CC-BY, and stewarded by Digipomps, a Norwegian foundation. You don't have to trust it blindly, because you can inspect all of it.
Your identity, data and relationships move with you. Leaving a service doesn't mean leaving your history behind, and the next service doesn't start from zero.
Having full control and ownership over your own data, infrastructure, and technology choices, independent of external vendors or foreign legislation.
Verifiable credentials are digital proofs, like a stamped certificate in your pocket. A trusted party signs a claim about you, such as a ticket or a degree. You hold it and show only what's needed, and anyone can check it's genuine without calling the issuer.
See how trust is proven →Every person is their own cell. Some choose to share a small part of what they know, and together it forms a picture none of them could see alone. Nobody collects it on their behalf, and nobody watches from outside.
Platforms ask you to trust their terms. HAVEN replaces roles and server permissions with capabilities and contracts: explicit, scoped grants that are cryptographically signed. Anyone involved can check who asked, what was granted, why, and for how long.
Illustrative example. Field names follow HAVEN's contract model; the values are made up.
At the heart of HAVEN is CellProtocol, a deliberately tiny, explicit and deterministic model for identity, authorisation, data flow, events and collaboration. It has no hidden magic and no implicit state, so the same input gives the same behaviour across time, machines and networks.
HAVEN is built from Cells: self-contained units of state and behavior whose entire public surface is explicit.
get/set, and every call carries an Identity. There are no side doors.FlowElements through a validated emit(). Replay lets late subscribers catch up.Because every cell honors the same contract, independently built cells compose into larger systems.
Coordinate in the field, sync when there's a link.
Keep working in closed or disconnected environments.
Learning systems that don't depend on stable internet access.
Own the digital infrastructure you gather around.
HAVEN is developed in the open, in public repositories, and stewarded by Digipomps, a Norwegian non-profit foundation. It is designed for a lifespan of 30 years or more, so it won't disappear because a commercial actor changes strategy. It belongs to everyone who uses it.