🔗 Citizen Infra Builders Links Digest
🗓 Week of March 2, 2026

A rich week across governance infrastructure, civic tech tooling, and the question of how communities can actually wield collective agency — from AI-driven constitutions to citizen-led risk sensing.

📚 Governance & Civic Innovation

Nathan Schneider proposes "constitutional agents" — AI bots guided by human-readable governance documents — as a practical alternative to complex modular governance platforms. Instead of requiring technical expertise, communities simply write their rules in plain language and let AI interpret them.
• Constitutional Agents for Online Governance — https://nathanschneider.info/2026/02/constitutional-agents-for-online-governance/

Dark Matter Labs launched RiskSense, a four-layer infrastructure (learning, legibility, intelligence, intervention) that helps communities anticipate systemic risks before they cascade into crises. It fills a gap between institutional and individual risk management with civic-scale tools including Risk Clinics and foresight capabilities.
• RiskSense — https://risk.darkmatterlabs.org/

A 4th Generation Civilization guest post argues for data commons powered by AI agents as a path to "economic self-sovereignty" — cooperatively-owned agentic AI instead of corporate extraction. (via @zhigaanov)
• Creating Agentic AI Cooperatives — https://open.substack.com/pub/4thgenerationcivilization/p/creating-agentic-ai-cooperatives

New ACM paper by Joel Miller, Eric Glen Weyl, and Chris Kanich exploring how plurality mechanisms (quadratic funding and similar) can produce fairer outcomes in crowdfunding platforms. (via @chiocciolab)
• Fair Decisions through Plurality — https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3757887.3763019

Amnesty International New Zealand is experimenting with a DAO structure — a notable signal that established human rights organizations are exploring decentralized governance models. (via @chiocciolab)
• Amnesty NZ DAO — https://amnesty.org.nz/dao/

@chiocciolab shared their "Proof of Political Power" paper — exploring how political agency can be formalized and verified.
• Proof of Political Power — https://cloud.9minuti.it/s/e5MksJD9wCD6Kfb

🛠 Tools & Infrastructure

The First Person Network positions itself as a "global digital utility" for trusted connections — not a social network, not centralized, not owned by any company. Works through digital wallets, no intermediaries. A useful concept for citizen proof-of-humanity that isn't web3. (via @zhiganov)
• First Person Network — https://www.firstperson.network/

EnergyPlus and OpenStudio — whole building energy simulation tools for engineers and architects. Open-source infrastructure for modeling energy consumption and water use. (via @zhiganov)
• EnergyPlus — https://github.com/NatLabRockies/EnergyPlus
• OpenStudio — https://github.com/NatLabRockies/OpenStudio

🎪 Events

ClawCon — community gatherings around personal AI sovereignty. Free, social-first format with demos and Q&A. Upcoming cities: Austin (Mar 12), Tel Aviv (Mar 18), Miami (Mar 25), Tokyo (Mar 30), London (Apr 8). (via @Megan)
• ClawCon — https://www.claw-con.com/