{ "name": "The Aeviterna adoption tracker", "version": "0.1", "released": "2026-07", "codebook": { "scale": { "0": "absent, or present and failed", "1": "partial or informal", "2": "present and load-bearing" }, "rules": [ "a cell is coded only on documentable evidence in either direction", "not-coded is a recorded state distinct from zero", "decline and suspension are first-class states", "no averaging across cases into a headline number", "every changed code is documented in an errata note" ], "dimensions": { "1": "Adaptive stability", "2": "Cognitive sovereignty", "3": "Cognitive ecology", "4": "The justice of light", "5": "The knowledge commons", "6": "Decaying standing", "7": "The dignity floor", "8": "Reversibility and exit", "9": "Anti-capture", "10": "Vital-signs review", "11": "Automated decisions", "12": "The more-than-human", "13": "The transition engine", "14": "The consent layer", "15": "Calibrated decay", "16": "The container rule", "17": "The visible substrate", "18": "The fork protocol", "19": "Friction and the cascade", "20": "The thin spine" } }, "caveats": "Tenant-grade evidence. Ten seed cases, all still existing in some form; coded by one team with adversarial review invited; no causal claims. Falsifier F-01's measurement instrument in embryo: it defines variables, anchors, and recording discipline; it is not yet the test.", "cases": [ { "id": "mondragon", "name": "Mondragon Corporation", "founded": 1956, "status": "active", "statusClass": "st-active", "traj": "Federation of worker co-ops; survived its largest member's 2013 bankruptcy with workers relocated through intercooperation funds; two co-ops exited by vote in 2022; record sales in 2025.", "sources": [ "https://www.tulankide.com/en/mondragon-achieved-a-turnover-of-eur11-322-billion-and-created-1-346-new-jobs-in-2025", "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apce.12329" ], "cells": [ { "d": 1, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Absorbed the Fagor bankruptcy (2013) and two member exits (2022); 71,415 employees and record sales in 2025." }, { "d": 8, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Refundable member stake; Orona and ULMA exited by member vote and the federation held: vested exit is real in both directions." }, { "d": 7, "s": 2, "c": "medium", "e": "Roughly 1,900 Fagor worker-members relocated or early-retired through LagunAro and intercooperation rather than dismissed." }, { "d": 9, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Wage-ratio caps and one-member-one-vote are structural; no documented rotation or independent-audit regime at federation level." }, { "d": 13, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Corporate funds seeded three new companies in 2025 with major R&D spend; the 2022 exits cut the other way." }, { "d": 20, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "The center could neither save Fagor by fiat nor block the exits: central power demonstrably bounded, thinly specified." } ] }, { "id": "champlain", "name": "Champlain Housing Trust", "founded": 1984, "status": "active", "statusClass": "st-active", "traj": "Largest US community land trust; 3,015 apartments and 706 shared-equity homes across three counties (2026); grew through the 2008 foreclosure crisis.", "sources": [ "https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/Senate%20Economic%20Development/Housing/W~Michael%20Monte~Champlain%20Housing%20Trust~1-16-2026.pdf", "https://www.getahome.org/" ], "cells": [ { "d": 1, "s": 2, "c": "medium", "e": "Forty-two years of continuous operation, growing through the 2008 crisis to the largest CLT in the country." }, { "d": 7, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Permanent affordability is the product: land held in trust, homes resale-restricted, 2008 World Habitat Award." }, { "d": 8, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "The shared-equity resale formula is a contractual vested exit: the leaver keeps equity plus a fixed appreciation share." }, { "d": 9, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Tripartite board with one third resident directors as a structural firewall; little public record of contested cases." }, { "d": 5, "s": 1, "c": "low", "e": "The CLT model is documented and replicated through a network; the trust's own knowledge practices are not publicly specified." } ] }, { "id": "twinoaks", "name": "Twin Oaks Community", "founded": 1967, "status": "active, rebuilding", "statusClass": "st-mixed", "traj": "Income-sharing community of ~85 adults; staged entry since the 1960s; two destructive fires (2024, 2026) took the flagship hammocks business; rebuilding via new textiles work and a sister-community partnership.", "sources": [ "https://www.twinoaks.org/", "https://c-ville.com/louisas-twin-oaks-commune-recovers-from-devastating-227-acre-fire/" ], "cells": [ { "d": 14, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Formal staged entry: three-week visit, time away, provisional period, then membership by explicit act." }, { "d": 17, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "The labor-credit system prices domestic and care work equal to income work: a working care ledger since 1967." }, { "d": 7, "s": 2, "c": "medium", "e": "Housing, food, healthcare, and stipend guaranteed to every member regardless of role." }, { "d": 1, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Fifty-nine years and two recent fires with the flagship business lost; functioning and rebuilding, not unscathed." }, { "d": 6, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Rotating planner-manager system with staggered terms; exact term rules are internal documentation." }, { "d": 18, "s": 1, "c": "low", "e": "Acorn Community (1993) founded as a supported spinoff rather than a schism; secondary sourcing." } ] }, { "id": "portoalegre", "name": "Porto Alegre participatory budgeting", "founded": 1989, "status": "revived, diminished", "statusClass": "st-declining", "traj": "The world's oldest PB: twenty-eight years, suspension in 2017 when the political sponsor flipped, revival by 2025 with the second-largest attendance since 1989 and a fraction of the historic money.", "sources": [ "https://prefeitura.poa.br/smgov/noticias/orcamento-participativo-de-2025-mobilizou-18-mil-pessoas", "https://www.wri.org/research/porto-alegre-participatory-budgeting-and-challenge-sustaining-transformative-change", "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X13000156" ], "cells": [ { "d": 4, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Open assemblies, a public allocation formula, and published investment plans for nearly three decades." }, { "d": 6, "s": 2, "c": "medium", "e": "Delegates and councillors elected annually on short terms: rotation by design." }, { "d": 13, "s": 0, "c": "high", "e": "No retention mechanism independent of mayoral will: the 2017 sponsor flip suspended the whole institution. The instrument codes the failure." }, { "d": 10, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Twenty years of external outcome monitoring: PB municipalities shifted spending toward sanitation and cut infant mortality." }, { "d": 7, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Documented redistribution toward poorer districts across the strong decades." }, { "d": 1, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Survived many administrations, then did not; revived 2025 at 18,055 participants with thin funding." } ] }, { "id": "vtaiwan", "name": "vTaiwan", "founded": 2015, "status": "volunteer-run", "statusClass": "st-mixed", "traj": "Polis-based deliberation out of the g0v community; flagship consensus cases 2015 to 2018, dormancy after its champion entered government, revived 2023 onward as a volunteer laboratory for AI deliberation.", "sources": [ "https://democracy-technologies.org/participation/consensus-building-in-taiwan/", "https://www.cip.org/alignmentassemblies" ], "cells": [ { "d": 3, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Polis surfaces minority positions that bridge clusters by design: dissent is structurally visible, not tolerated." }, { "d": 4, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Full transparency: livestreams, verbatim outputs, open data throughout." }, { "d": 5, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Open-source stack exported worldwide; the process itself is a commons." }, { "d": 13, "s": 0, "c": "high", "e": "Champion-dependent: stalled when its sponsor entered government; recommendations never bound. The instrument codes the failure." }, { "d": 1, "s": 0, "c": "medium", "e": "Dormant roughly 2018 to 2023; survives as volunteer effort without institutional anchoring." }, { "d": 11, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Alignment assemblies (2023 onward) are an emerging public-review channel for AI systems." } ] }, { "id": "ostbelgien", "name": "Ostbelgien Citizens' Council", "founded": 2019, "status": "active", "statusClass": "st-active", "traj": "First permanent sortition body attached to a legislature: 24 members, 18-month staggered terms, one third rotating every six months; survived a government turnover because a decree entrenches it.", "sources": [ "https://www.buergerdialog.be/en/citizen-council/what-is-the-citizens-council", "https://www.publicdeliberation.net/the-ostbelgien-model-five-years-on/" ], "cells": [ { "d": 6, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Textbook staggered rotation: 18-month terms, one third replaced every six months, selection by lot." }, { "d": 4, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Ministers and parliament must respond publicly to each recommendation in joint session, with standing follow-up monitoring." }, { "d": 14, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Lot-based invitation with opt-in; any citizen may propose topics." }, { "d": 9, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Sortition prevents professionalization of the seats; the surrounding administration is conventional." }, { "d": 10, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Academic evaluation built in from inception, published at the five-year mark." }, { "d": 1, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Seven years and one election turnover survived; too young for longitudinal claims." } ] }, { "id": "wikimedia", "name": "Wikipedia / Wikimedia", "founded": 2001, "status": "active", "statusClass": "st-active", "traj": "A quarter century at enormous scale; elected arbitration in staggered terms; one constitutional crisis absorbed (the 2019 office ban rolled back) and one recorded plainly: the 2024 movement charter passed community ratification and the board declined it, eleven to one.", "sources": [ "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Ratification/Voting/Results", "https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Draft_Movement_Charter_and_next_steps" ], "cells": [ { "d": 5, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "The paradigm knowledge commons: open license, full dumps, seven million articles." }, { "d": 3, "s": 2, "c": "medium", "e": "Talk pages, requests for comment, and an independent internal press keep dissent visible." }, { "d": 1, "s": 2, "c": "medium", "e": "Twenty-five years of governance crises absorbed without organizational rupture." }, { "d": 4, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Public logs, cases, and appeals sit beside the opaque office action that triggered the 2019 crisis." }, { "d": 6, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Arbitration is elected on staggered two-year terms; adminship is indefinite, with recall adopted only recently." }, { "d": 18, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "The license makes forking structurally real (the 2002 Spanish fork); the 2024 charter veto was contained without one." }, { "d": 20, "s": 1, "c": "low", "e": "Central overreach rolled back once (2019); the center declined community-written bounds once (2024)." } ] }, { "id": "debian", "name": "Debian (and Devuan)", "founded": 1993, "status": "active", "statusClass": "st-active", "traj": "Constitution since 1998; twenty-eight consecutive annual leader elections with public tallies; its deepest ideological conflict resolved by ballot; its fork, Devuan, alive eleven years later with both branches persisting.", "sources": [ "https://www.debian.org/vote/", "https://bits.debian.org/2026/04/dpl-elections-2026.html", "https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/excalibur-release-announce-2025-11-02" ], "cells": [ { "d": 6, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Twenty-eight consecutive annual leadership elections (1999 to 2026), Condorcet, public tallies: the strongest rotation record in the set." }, { "d": 3, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "The general-resolution mechanism institutionalizes dissent; every vote archive is public." }, { "d": 4, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Every ballot, tally, and constitutional rule published." }, { "d": 18, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Devuan (2014) took a new name, kept the commons interoperable, and both branches persist: a completed, surviving fork." }, { "d": 1, "s": 2, "c": "medium", "e": "The systemd conflict, the project's deepest, was resolved by formal ballot without collapse." }, { "d": 14, "s": 2, "c": "medium", "e": "Staged New Member process with documented checks." }, { "d": 20, "s": 2, "c": "medium", "e": "The constitution tightly bounds leader and technical-committee powers." } ] }, { "id": "icann", "name": "ICANN Empowered Community", "founded": 2016, "status": "active, powers untested", "statusClass": "st-mixed", "traj": "The designed capture firewall of the IANA transition: nine enumerated community powers including board recall; a symbolic first exercise, the .org sale stopped by adjacent pressure rather than the power built for it, and the first-ever rejection petition filed in 2026.", "sources": [ "https://www.icann.org/ec", "https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-board-withholds-consent-for-a-change-of-control-of-the-public-interest-registry-pir", "https://aso.icann.org/follow-up-notice-to-the-rir-community-icann-empowered-community-rejection-action-petition/" ], "cells": [ { "d": 20, "s": 2, "c": "high", "e": "Post-2016 mission limitations legally bound the central functions; the operator can be fired by enumerated, court-enforceable powers." }, { "d": 19, "s": 2, "c": "medium", "e": "Rejection-petition periods impose mandatory delay windows on bylaw and budget execution." }, { "d": 9, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "The community firewall exists and has never fully fired; the .org save ran through the board and a state attorney general instead." }, { "d": 10, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Mandated periodic reviews exist; the live 2026 fight is precisely over the board pausing them." }, { "d": 4, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Reconsideration and independent-review venues exist and are used; petitioners rarely prevail." }, { "d": 1, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Absorbed the transition and the .org crisis; the first rejection petition appears to have failed for lack of support." } ] }, { "id": "wir", "name": "WIR Bank", "founded": 1934, "status": "function declining", "statusClass": "st-declining", "traj": "The world's longest-running complementary currency: measured countercyclical lending to small firms across decades, a healthy cooperative bank, and a currency function in documented decline inside it.", "sources": [ "https://gb.wir.ch/de/2024/wichtigste-zahlen-2024", "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41294-016-0001-5" ], "cells": [ { "d": 19, "s": 2, "c": "medium", "e": "The countercyclical credit mechanism is documented shock-buffering for member SMEs across the postwar record." }, { "d": 1, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Ninety-two years of survival, achieved partly by drifting into conventional banking while the core function decays." }, { "d": 10, "s": 1, "c": "medium", "e": "Transparent annual reporting makes the currency's own decline legible: CHW loans and deposits both fell in 2024." }, { "d": 15, "s": 1, "c": "low", "e": "The original currency carried demurrage, a literal decay charge, abandoned in 1948; the one in-case calibration experiment." }, { "d": 13, "s": 1, "c": "low", "e": "The institutional pivot preserved the shell, not the function." }, { "d": 8, "s": 0, "c": "medium", "e": "The currency is officially non-convertible: value locked in, exit friction by design. Coded against the framework's own standard." } ] } ], "legibility": "This instrument reads institutions from public records and codes no persons; its person-level legibility budget is zero by construction (EQ-03b)." }