Participation Framework

Draft Participation Framework for Review

Drafted by: Initial working group convened during 2025 coordination sessions [Jan 19, 2026, 18:05 GMT+1]

This coalition consists of entities experimenting with protocols for voluntary coordination and capacity-building. The coalition proposes a re-engineering of how collective action and resource allocation can be coordinated.

Coordination is based on:

• Publishing (what is, capacities/needs/priorities)

• Derivation (what we can infer collectively)

Participants may publish/derive data from local/network-data. For example: capacities, needs, priorities, recongition of contributions, allocations, collective memberships, environmental data, qualities, goals, estimates, decisions, sources for deriving, filters and their applications, or any other data.

Participants can publish/propose/offer/allocate with the help of protocols of their choosing.

Foundational Principles:

• Sovereignty and Interoperability: Participants retain full control over their own data, recognitions, and capacity allocations. Participants explore protocols enabling collaboration without requiring surrender of autonomy.

• Optimized Coordination: The vision is for a significant portion of capacities/resources being allocated by participants informed by relevant derivations on the state of network data, drastically reducing transaction costs and delays.

• Scale-Invariant Relationships: Coordination is based on proportions rather than absolute quantities. This allows relationships and potential capacity flows to scale infinitely.