Data & Digital Infrastructure Policy in Symbiotic Democracy
Core Principle:
Data is treated as a shared community asset, not a commodity owned by corporations or the state. Digital infrastructure is federated, interoperable, and AI-ready, ensuring communities can coordinate and innovate without losing sovereignty.
How It Works
National Community Information Architecture (NCIA)
A structured, open standard (like schema.org but for communities) that defines:
Community profiles (mission, members, governance, contributions, projects).
Decision records (votes, charters, amendments).
Economic data (transactions, sponsorships, shared assets).
This allows communities to be machine-readable — enabling LLMs, SLMs, and search engines to surface them accurately.
Open Community Schema (OCS)
Every recognized community must store its governance and activity data in OCS-compliant formats.
These records are accessible to:
Community members (full transparency).
Federations and government (for oversight and policy alignment).
Approved AI systems (for summarization, search, analytics).
Community Data Commons
Communities collectively decide:
What data is shared publicly.
What is licensed for external use.
How licensing fees are distributed back to contributors.
For example: anonymized behavioral patterns could be sold to researchers or businesses, with revenue split among the community.
Digital Identity Standards
Each member has a decentralized ID (DID) linked to their contribution ledger.
Members can carry this identity across communities — meaning their reputation, skills, and governance history are portable.
This prevents “starting from zero” when joining a new group.
AI & Provenance Governance
All AI-generated content or recommendations in community spaces must include source provenance.
LLMs and SLMs interacting with communities must be:
Federated (trained on approved datasets, not scraping without consent).
Accountable (traceable outputs, bias audits).
Communities can run local AI assistants fine-tuned on their own history and knowledge base.
Decentralized Storage & Hosting
No single central server — instead, communities host their own data nodes or use distributed networks like IPFS.
Prevents censorship and ensures resilience if a node fails.
Interoperability & Federation
APIs connect communities so:
Decisions in one can trigger actions in another (e.g., funding approvals).
Members can participate in cross-community projects without creating new accounts.
National and global indexes of communities allow discovery by topic, location, or affiliation.
Example in Action
The Urban Gardening Community stores its member roster, governance votes, and project results in OCS format.
A climate-focused LLM queries the national registry to find all communities that have implemented successful rooftop garden initiatives.
The LLM matches them with a Renewable Energy Co-op looking to install solar panels alongside gardens.
Smart contracts handle the project funding and track contributions across both communities.
The combined project data is licensed to universities studying urban ecology, generating revenue for both groups.