Civic Dividend

Your authorized data created value. Share in the value.

If people create the signal, people should share in its economic value. The Civic Dividend is the planned mechanism for returning a disclosed part of paid mission value to eligible participants.

Your identity. Your keys. Your permission. Your share of the value.

Keep the underlying profile

Contribution does not transfer ownership of your identity. You retain your Self-Sovereign Civic Profile while granting the mission-specific permissions needed to generate a derivative aggregate research product.

Authorization allows the agreed analysis. It does not give a sponsor unrestricted access to your identity, private preferences or future participation.

Understand the mission before joining

A mission must disclose its sponsor, purpose, requested data and access, eligibility, contribution requirements, compensation, timing, retention and publication rules. Review those terms before deciding whether the proposed value exchange works for you.

The Civic Dividend compensates eligible participation. Registration alone does not guarantee selection, a paid mission, a reward amount or income.

Your viewpoint does not set your reward

Supporting a proposal, opposing it, expressing uncertainty or setting conditions must not change compensation because of that viewpoint. Rewards follow the disclosed eligibility and participation rules, not official voting behaviour or a sponsor's preferred answer.

Permission has a scope and a timeline

You can end future authorization. That does not automatically erase data already legitimately processed or remove a contribution from a completed aggregate report. Each mission must explain withdrawal timing and completed-report consequences before you participate.

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