Civil-Society Proposal · v1.2 New May 2026 · EN

A Civil-Society Proposal for Sovereign and Federated Agentic AI in Aotearoa New Zealand

A civil-society contribution to NZ policymakers and community organisers, mirroring the structure of the People’s Republic of China’s 2026 Implementation Guidelines for intelligent agents. Six sections, 14 sub-sections, 38 numbered items, with a new §0 “Philosophical Foundations” chapter drawing on the Tractatus framework, the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance, and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 standards.

Paper A · Review Draft v4 New May 2026 · EN/MI/DE

Sovereign-Record Architecture for Community-Scale Platforms

An alternative substrate for community-scale platforms in which sovereignty is a property of the records themselves, not a concession the operator may revoke. Cryptographic provenance, tenant-bounded policy enforcement, bilateral and bounded federation, member-driven sovereign portability, and a supervised participatory dialogue surface.

Paper B · Synopsis New May 2026 · EN/MI/DE/FR · 2-page synopsis

Situated Language Layers for Minority-Language and Indigenous Communities

Empirical companion to Paper A. Per-tenant situated language layer trained on the tenant’s own corpus, governed by the tenant’s own authority, on infrastructure inside the tenant’s jurisdictional reach. Five training-discipline rules empirically derived; nine weight-modification ablation experiments motivating a strict no-weight-modification stance.

STO-INN-0003 v2.1 January 2026 · Three Editions

Related surfaces

  • · What’s New — recent additions across papers and blogs.
  • · Reading Map of the Research — vocabulary index with cross-references into the papers.
  • · Research Guide — three audience routes (researcher / implementer / leader) with citations into the source material.
  • · Framework Documentation — implementation specs, internal documentation, source references.
  • · Blog — short-form analysis, case studies, and threat-model commentary.