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TheFlow 2480d73d6f feat(whitepapers): add EU Policy Brief (EN + DE) derived from Distributive Equity 
Policy-audience derivative of the V1.0 Distributive Equity whitepaper:

- Three mechanisms (SLL, Guardian Agents, Federation) mapped to EU
  regulatory hooks (AI Act Arts 2/50, EMFA, GDPR Art 9, DSA, CLOUD Act)
- Structural audit criteria (5), transferability section (3 levels),
  three open research questions
- Licensing posture stated accurately: Tractatus Framework is Apache 2.0
  and public on Codeberg; Village platform codebase is proprietary with
  specific modules scoped for progressive open-source release under the
  pending NLnet Fediversity grant, subject to Board + Advisory Committee
  approval
- Carpool timeline stated as "in build, expected operational early May
  2026" — matches user's written commitment

EN and DE HTML reuse the distributive-equity.html template wrapper with
CSP-compliant class-based styling (no inline styles). PDFs generated via
pandoc + xelatex.

Parent paper DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19600614
Brief Zenodo deposit is pending (will receive its own DOI).
2026-04-18 07:36:57 +12:00

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<h1>Whitepapers</h1>
<p class="subtitle">Working papers and research contributions from the Agentic Governance research programme at My Digital Sovereignty Limited.</p>
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<span class="audience-badge">Working Paper · V1.0 · April 2026</span>
<h2><a href="/whitepapers/distributive-equity.html">Distributive Equity Through Structure: A Community-Scale Worked Example of Values Stickiness</a></h2>
<p class="subtitle">How a Community-Scale Platform Implements Values Stickiness Through a Constitutional Architecture at Sub-Big-Tech Scale.</p>
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<strong>Author:</strong> John Stroh, Director, My Digital Sovereignty Limited
· <strong>ORCID:</strong> <a href="https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2933-7170">0009-0005-2933-7170</a>
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<strong>DOI:</strong> <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19600614">10.5281/zenodo.19600614</a>
· <strong>Licence:</strong> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>
· <strong>Published:</strong> 16 April 2026
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<p>A body of recent legal scholarship argues that digital platforms exercise a distinct form of power &mdash; <em>ecosystem power</em> &mdash; operating simultaneously through three roles: as gatekeepers, as legislators of the relationships within their ecosystems, and as contractual actors participating in the transactions they rule on. Adjacent work proposes <em>distributive equity</em> as a candidate additional consideration for antitrust enforcement.</p>
<p>This paper documents a single worked example: a community-scale platform (<em>Village</em>, operated by My Digital Sovereignty Limited, Aotearoa New Zealand) whose structural commitments are the enactment of a prior theoretical commitment &mdash; that the welfare pathology identified in the research programme is best understood as a <em>values drift</em> pathology, and that structural architecture is the mechanism by which a platform's declared values can be made sticky enough to resist that drift. The paper situates Village's commitments inside the <em>Tractatus framework</em> that generated them &mdash; a constitutional architecture grounded in Wittgenstein, Berlin, Ostrom, Alexander, and Te Ao M&#257;ori frameworks of indigenous data sovereignty.</p>
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<span class="audience-badge">Policy Brief · V0.1 · April 2026</span>
<h2><a href="/whitepapers/eu-policy-brief.html">Sovereign AI Governance at Community Scale: An EU Policy Brief</a></h2>
<p class="subtitle">How community organisations and small businesses can meet AI Act obligations without delegating control to their vendor.</p>
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<strong>Author:</strong> John Stroh, Director, My Digital Sovereignty Limited
· <strong>ORCID:</strong> <a href="https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2933-7170">0009-0005-2933-7170</a>
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<strong>Derived from:</strong> <a href="/whitepapers/distributive-equity.html">Distributive Equity Through Structure</a> (parent paper DOI <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19600614">10.5281/zenodo.19600614</a>)
· <strong>Licence:</strong> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>
· <strong>Published:</strong> 18 April 2026
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<p>Most EU community organisations will meet the AI Act by accepting their existing vendor&rsquo;s defaults. The vendor determines the model, the data-handling posture, and the jurisdictional routing of every query. The community organisation inherits all of this by signing a procurement form. This is not compliance; it is delegation.</p>
<p>This brief describes an alternative already in production: the Village platform, built around a three-layer constitutional architecture that anchors community values in the platform&rsquo;s code, and a Situated Language Layer trained on the community&rsquo;s own authorised material. The brief sets out three mechanisms (Situated Language Layer, Guardian Agents, Federation), maps each to the EU regulatory hook it engages (AI Act, EMFA, GDPR Art. 9), and describes the structural audit criteria an adopting community or business can run for itself. The toolkit was built under Te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations to M&#257;ori communities in New Zealand; the architectural consequence of meeting that constraint is what the brief offers to EU readers.</p>
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<p class="empty-future">Further whitepapers in preparation.</p>
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