Dignity comes first.
A person’s basic needs, privacy and voice do not have to be earned. Umahn’s role is to establish distinct participation without requiring a public account of someone’s whole identity.
GOVERNANCE / THE DIRECTION
A voice in the system.
A way to challenge it.
Useful work should matter. Money should not decide everything. No person, institution or AI should become impossible to question.
Design commitmentsPublic participation before launch
02 / CONTRIBUTION
Let evidence carry the credit.
A useful record connects the person, the work, the result and the review. Reputation belongs to a context or skill. It should show its basis, permit corrections and carry a history of challenges.
03 / RESPONSIBILITY
Authority has a scope.
Who can decide, over what, for how long, and on whose behalf? Define the role before granting it. Personal actions need personal permission; shared resources need accountable stewardship.
04 / MONEY
A budget is not a throne.
Capital helps make work possible. It does not purchase unrestricted control over SOS Systems. Project-token rights, payment for work and community governance are separate agreements.
05 / CORRECTION
Make disagreement useful.
Publish reasons and evidence, disclose conflicts, give affected people a route to appeal and assign someone responsible for responding. An AI assessment must be challengeable too.
06 / CONTINUITY
Build for the handover.
Founders and early contributors deserve fair review of their work, not permanent command. Stewardship needs willing people, resources and a deliberate transfer of responsibility.
FROM A PROPOSAL TO A DECISION
Give every decision
a trail people can follow.
Define it
Name the need, affected people, scope, budget and alternatives. State who is allowed to decide and what authority they have.
Review it
Gather relevant evidence, declare conflicts and record disagreements. Distinguish support for an idea from approval to spend or act.
Revisit it
Record the outcome and compare it with the intended result. Provide appeals, correction and a review date for continuing authority.
What remains open. Reputation weights, impact measurement, capital limits, inflation, rebalancing and the adoption process need public examination. Earlier numerical models are research proposals. A simulation does not appoint governors or ratify its own rules.
HELP MAKE THE RULES WORTH TRUSTING.
Bring the difficult
question.
Who is missing? What could be abused?
How would someone challenge a mistake?