Technology

Self-sovereign citizens. Observable public power.

Participant-controlled identity, shared public records and a representative-accountability application. These integrations are in development.

Interactive concept. The application is in development.

TECH-01Technology

Participant-controlled identity and shared civic infrastructure

Concept · planned
Checks and Balances
  • Human verification
  • Participant-controlled credential
Civic Ledger AI
  • Civic Graph
  • Source monitoring and provenance
  • Mirror State
Rate My Representatives
  • Representative accountability
  • Profiles, timelines and corrections
  • Community civic signals
Participant VerusID
  • Portable civic profile
  • Scoped application permissions
  • Participant initiates sharing
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VerusID

Participant-controlled identity and authorization. Portable self-sovereign identity supports designated revocation and recovery authorities. The planned RMR integration will use wallet-mediated sharing; recovery depends on the participant’s configuration.

IDENTITY-06Architecture

Your profile. Your authorization.

Concept · planned
Participant
  • 1Controls identity and keys
VerusID / VDXF data
  • 1Selected profile components
Participant authorization
  • 1Specific permissions
RMR interface
  • 1Uses only authorized information
Bring your identity. Bring the permissions you choose. Leave the rest private.
02

VDXF

Shared structure for application data. Application-defined civic information may be represented through globally unique structured namespaces. A data label does not prove its contents true.

TECH-03Technology

VDXF shared language

Concept · planned
Typed record blocks
  • Person
  • Office
  • Jurisdiction
  • District
  • Term
  • Vote
  • Expense
  • Promise
  • Evidence
  • Response
  • Correction
  • Provenance
VDXF helps systems locate and interpret records.It does not decide whether a claim is accurate.
03

contentmap / contentmultimap

Portable structured data associated with the participant-controlled identity. These identity data fields support structured values; privacy depends on what is stored, encryption and access controls. Private profile data must not be published as public civic records.

TECH-02Technology

Participant-authorized access

Concept · planned
Participant-controlled identity
  • VerusID / VDXF data
  • Keys remain with participant
  • Choose claims, settings and rules
RMR request
  • Purpose-specific proof
  • Explicit permission
  • Mission-specific access / decryption
No transfer of the identity-control private key.No automatic Civic Ledger profile import.
04

Encryption

The participant controls the keys and authorizes access. Applications must not require transfer of the participant’s identity-control private key. Readable mission data requires a mission-specific access/decryption mechanism, not surrender of the identity’s root control key.

PRIVACY-01Privacy

Minimum disclosure

Concept · planned
Private credential boundary
  • Identity document
  • Photograph
  • Address evidence
  • Committee notes
  • Other credentials
Permitted result
  • Current participation status?
  • Current
Minimum claim. Maximum control.
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Checks and Balances · Civic Ledger · RMR

The Checks and Balances Protocol supplies human attestation. Civic Ledger operates the canonical public Civic Graph and Mirror State. RMR applies representative accountability. It must not create a conflicting canonical government map.

HOME-12Home

Three systems. Three jobs.

Concept · planned
Checks and Balances
  • Human verification
  • Participant-controlled credential
Civic Ledger AI
  • Civic Graph
  • Source monitoring and provenance
  • Mirror State
Rate My Representatives
  • Representative accountability
  • Profiles, timelines and corrections
  • Community civic signals
Participant VerusID
  • Portable civic profile
  • Scoped application permissions
  • Participant initiates sharing
RMR integrations are in development.Identity remains with the person.
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Provenance is not truth.

Signatures, timestamps and hashes support integrity and attribution. They do not establish substantive truth. Research architecture, confidence and correction rules remain open to inspection.

TECH-04Technology

Provenance anchor

Concept · planned
Record path
  • 1Source retrieval
  • 2Hash creation
  • 3Signature
  • 4Timestamp
  • 5Content reference
  • 6Later verification
Technical integrity
  • 1Changed document produces a different hash
Factual certainty
  • 1Requires source and human evaluation
Technical integrity and factual certainty stay separate.
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