---
# System prepended metadata

title: RIF Publish

---

# RIF Publish
*Codename:* Storage Liberty
*Motivation:* Enable freedom of information and bring them to those who can not access them
*Target date:* first deliverables in April, end of project in May

The aim of the RIF Publish project is to provide a platform for simplifying publishing of articles, newspaper and other mostly text based or text and photographic data. There are two complementary leads right now:

1. Coindesk in Spanish being shared purely on a decentralised storage. Here we have direct communication with Nolan. This would be a translated content from US version.
2. There are Argentinean newspapers which are popular in outside of Argentina and have a section about Venezuella. Naturally, this newspapers and their website is blocked in Venezuella. RIF Storage could help.

I propose a UX research project which aim would be to design a solution that would fit into existing workflow of these organizations. It should also be generic enough to easily integrate into any other similar publishing organization.

### Requirements
- Fits or impact minimally existing workflow of the publishers
- Easy to use
- Uses the RIF Storage & RNS services

### Deliverables
1. Understand the needs and workflow of online newspaper publisher => **output** is a short report
2. Propose a workflow how to easily upload and persist articles on RIF Storage (taking feedback from the technical team and customers) => **output** is a guided prototype
3. Understand how the content can be consumed => **output** proposals for improvements
4. Iterating on the prototype and helping the dev team with ad hoc questions
5. Help to create emotional narration about the project levaraging historical tools like [Radio Free Europe](https://www.rferl.org/) which is helping in the countries that had/have censorship. Or this [library in minecraft](https://gizmodo.com/this-minecraft-library-provides-a-platform-for-censored-1842298748), or [Popula](https://popula.com/about-popula/) which stores article fully on Ethereum chain, or [wikipedia on IPFS](https://blog.ipfs.io/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/) or [Fair Data Society](https://fairdatasociety.org/).