Our Programs

All POCA software is free of charge, open source (Apache 2.0), and built to run without an internet connection on low-cost Android tablets.

1. The POCA Application Suite

Eight applications, each named in Indigenous languages of the Americas:

• Amoxtli ("book"): a home for storytelling. Its codex format lets a community's own artists bring folklore to life through narrated, side-scrolling illustrated stories in the tradition of the painted books of the ancient Americas. Books and audiobooks share its shelves.
• Tlato ("word, speech"): the mechanism for a People to preserve and teach their own language. Word, phrase, and lesson cards carry pronunciation recorded by the People who still hold the language, with daily practice, live translation, and a camera reader.
• Metztli ("moon"): a calendar that can hold a People's own day count, cycles, day names, and glyphs as a first-class calendar system alongside the Gregorian one, computed for any date, past or future.
• Tlalli ("earth"): a field guide to the community's own land in four registers (plants, animals, geology, places) with audio, coordinates, and traditional uses, plus a private field journal. Works entirely offline.
• Ollin ("movement"): grounded lessons, exhibitions, and video that keep past, present, and future cultural consciousness alive. Interoperates with Mukurtu, the archive platform many communities already keep, honoring TK Labels and access protocols.
• Cualli ("good, well-being"): wellness and emergency resources: medical information for trusted contacts, local crisis alerts, support groups, clinic directories, and one-tap emergency calling that reaches the community's own responder first.
• Cuilo ("to paint, to write"): a creative studio for painting, music, and writing, so culture is not only kept but made. In development.
• Teo ("sacred"): a quiet, rendered world walked slowly on the tablet's own processor. No store, no account, no connection.

2. The PAC (Peoples Archive Card)

The community's whole cultural library lives on one microSD card that the community owns, holds, and signs with its own cryptographic key. Ordinary tablets read it. Content never leaves the card for any cloud.

3. Xochi, the On-Device Assistant

An assistant that runs entirely on the tablet and answers from the community's card in the community's own terms. Questions and answers never leave the device. It is real and working today.

4. Device Revival

POCA software runs on inexpensive and even discarded tablets. We have brought a thrown-away tablet back to life as a complete POCA cultural device, proof that the machine a culture lives on does not have to be new, and does not have to belong to somebody else.