Technology

Discipl secures its coherent set of principles with a distributed collaborative information platform which is where Discipl stands for. It is a software stack of free open source reusable components in which all information is stored as verifiable linked data claims on any kind of data storage platform that could hold them in a hybrid way. This includes verifiable claim wallets, distributed ledgers as well as any other current legacy system. On top of this there are several components that facilitates people to attend to all needs of all people within local to global society following what we call the Discipl Pattern:

• People with needs …
• create or deliver abundance services that attend to needs …
• that attend to and match needs as they see fit, guided by known guidelines to attend to all relating needs as best as possible …
• and that attend to any unmet or conflicting need people still might have …
• through engaging with conflicts by mediating them to solutions that attend to all needs of everyone involved …
• and publish these principles as principle based law, policy and or contracts to be interpreted as guidelines for attending to all needs.

When organizing societies around the main principle of attending to all needs following the Discipl pattern, people will just publish their needs out in the open in an anonymous way. Abundance services created out of a need to attend to needs will discover and match themselves with any unmet needs and will just attend to them in a more private peer to peer connection with the entity that published its need. Abundance services will be able to use a Discipl software component to interpret known guidelines as how to best attend to a need while also taking into account the needs of others and how to explain all this to the person in need that is involved.

Not all needs will or can be met easily without collaborating with others. There might even be conflicts. Using Discipl software components that support in an efficient nonviolent collaborative decision and conflict engagement process, currently inspired on ideas within the NGL community : the Advice Proces (Laloux) and Convergent Facilitation (Miki Kashtan) for more complex situations along with other kinds of methods and tools. In this way a restorative justice and legal system will be made possible instead of a retributive one such that engaging with conflicts results in real solutions that really do justice to the society as a whole and for instance do not induce shame in people with its high risk of resulting in violence at a later time (see this video). Some conflicts can be handled locally, others must be handled at more global levels. Discipl components will also facilitate in an open protocol for escalation processes when needed such that this is taken into account and the right people can get included.

People will not always be aware of their needs, or know about all the needs that could easily be attended to. For most people we envision they could get help by utilizing a local AI Advisor on their own device that would have access to their private information and would advise them, given known guidelines, what needs would be easily attended to and how given their situation and would help them express them and have them attended to. Years ago we envisioned to provide in such a AI advisor in 2026 as a reference implementation and gave it the name “Blue Fairy”. This is now starting to materialise under the name of the Personal Regulation Assistent (PRA) project. Note however that AI is not a first focus here.

We realize this does not take into account the needs of still quite a large group of people that are digital illiterate, disabled or unwilling for which a non imposing care system with appropriate (mostly human) abundance services must be in place to connect with these group of people and offer them help and support proactively without imposing or shaming them. And all this will need a matching education system too.

Then there is the garbage problem. We could already do away with a lot of tasks surrounding to keep track of who is getting what value in the illusion this value would get distributed evenly if people’s needs, capabilities and efforts were even. But you might ask who is going to do the mundane tasks that people still need to get done? We hope instead on focusing everything that has to do with giving and receiving equally, more effort will be put by people that like to automate stuff to increase production and distribution to the level of just enough for whatever people ask for doing so. This should result in free open source autonomous systems that can easily be replicated and deployed. A vision that for instance also has been picked up in the Nature 2.0 track of the Odyssey hackathon that was introduced after the hackathon in 2017 in which a first concept Discipl was first shown. Emerging technologies make this kind of solutions possible now more than ever and are already being built. We realize this all must be done in a sustainable way however in which technology does no harm to nature including us and blends in just enough.

In the meanwhile Discipl can perfectly applied in the current world as is no matter what happens and is innovating with emerging technologies to be shared freely with anyone. We might however not be able to solve many current wicked problems without creating more problems if we keep competing and do not start to collaborate in a non violent way. We envision that to enable this, Open Free Knowlegde will be the new standard to work with period. You can still own material things and keep information private and be happy, but you are ethically stimulated to share non personal information freely.

We need information to be unbiased by competition if we take actions based on that free information. Also we then could let go of a need to know everyone’s personal information instead of a competition to avoid leaking them, and that we can really trust to share as much as anonymous statistics to get everyone informed as best as possible. Services for material needs will be anonymous yet fully transparent by design. Services for non material needs will start anonymous but involve establishing a trusted compassionate connection between people. Discipl components will help securing this in a world in transition.

This is what the Discipl Infographic (structured as a NORA 5 layer architecture) above summarizes. For more information about the ongoing development of Discipl you invite you to have a look at our projects, roadmap and gitlab repositories and welcome you to collaborate with us.