🔗 Citizen Infrastructure Links Digest
🗓 Week of March 9, 2026

From the philosophical case for scaling beyond the village to the practical tools making participation and decentralization work — a rich haul this week.

📰 Ideas & Analysis

Indy Johar argues civilization wasn't wrong to break the village — the real problem is that planetary-scale infrastructure is still coupled to a narrow homo economicus. His proposed expansion: from momentary individual through generational, intergenerational, to "entangled self."

• Beyond Dunbar: Civilization Was Right to Move Beyond the Village — https://indyjohar.substack.com/p/beyond-dunbar-civilization-was-right

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation makes the case that economic security isn't just about money — community connections are load-bearing infrastructure. New analysis finds 430 "doubly disadvantaged" UK neighbourhoods (3.5M people) left unfunded by Pride in Place.

• Why social infrastructure matters for economic security — https://www.jrf.org.uk/neighbourhoods-and-communities/why-social-infrastructure-matters-for-economic-security

📚 Participation & Governance

A symposium booklet on AI and Democracy — eight scholars on legal ethics, participatory design, and the intersection. (via @Stocastico96)

• Symposium Booklet on AI and Democracy — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathalie-smuha-2aa0b071_symposium-booklet-on-ai-and-democracy-ugcPost-7434957570743840768-jWpp

🌐 P2P & Decentralized Infrastructure

OpenHaven (from DWeb/Collaborative Tech Alliance) is building a navigator for the P2P ecosystem — helping developers find the right protocol by starting from what they need, with governance models and capture risk included.

• OpenHaven — https://openhaven.net/
• Protocol Spreadsheet — https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GVAE57Yz6f8ue4KOOn7G7GENoeVybmzF/edit

The P2P Foundation's Confederation Longevity Database tracks which confederations and decentralized governance structures have historically endured.

• Confederation Longevity Database — https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Confederation_Longevity_Database

🔧 Tools & Resources

Clawbolt is Mozilla.ai's open-source AI assistant for solo tradespeople — estimates, memory, voice memos, photo analysis, all through Telegram. No app to install.

• Clawbolt — https://clawbolt.ai/

RadHR: a free, open, collaborative library of organizational policies and processes for community orgs.

• RadHR Policy Library — https://radhr.org/resources/policies/