{
    "schema_version": "3.0.8",
    "version": "3.0.16",
    "last_reviewed_utc": "2026-06-21T02:42:50Z",
    "artifact_maturity": "reviewed",
    "human_page": "https://vnwo.com/participation/",
    "safe_summary": "Participation matters when affected people can contribute evidence, challenge assumptions, influence a declared decision lever, preserve dissent, obtain a reasoned disposition, seek correction, refuse or withdraw without retaliation, and exit where necessary.",
    "definitions": {
        "meaningful_participation": "A bounded process in which affected people can influence at least one declared decision lever and can inspect what happened to their input.",
        "participation_record": "A public or appropriately scoped trace of decision scope, channels, access supports, contributions, dissent, dispositions, changes, non-changes, correction, and exit.",
        "participation_readiness": "A preflight determination that the decision is actually open, the influence level is honest, access and retaliation risks are disclosed, response ownership exists, dissent can be preserved, and a correction or exit path remains.",
        "contribution_disposition_ledger": "A contribution-level record of accepted, partially accepted, deferred, rejected, duplicate, out-of-scope, or needs-review status, with rationale and resulting change or non-change.",
        "minority_or_dissent_report": "A privacy-bounded record preserving material disagreement, evidence, requested remedies, owner responses, unresolved status, and a future review trigger without claiming representativeness.",
        "access_and_burden_record": "A process-level record of disability access, language, connectivity, scheduling, care burdens, technical literacy, compensation, privacy, retaliation risk, alternative channels, known gaps, and planned repair.",
        "process_integrity_metrics": "Process-level counts and notes about access, response, dispositions, dissent, corrections, and follow-through that do not score participants or infer demographic traits.",
        "decision_change_record": "A comparison of the proposal before participation and the final decision, including adopted and non-adopted requests, reasons, retained dissent, implementation ownership, correction history, and exit impact.",
        "implementation_follow_through_record": "A commitment-level record of responsible roles, completed, in-progress, deferred, blocked, retired, or no-op states, evidence links, review dates, unresolved gaps, and repair paths.",
        "participation_process_comparison": "A bounded comparison of information, consultation, deliberation, co-decision, and delegated or binding authority that does not rank participants or assume one level is always appropriate.",
        "participation_washing": "Using the appearance of consultation to legitimize a process while keeping every consequential lever closed.",
        "disposition": "A reasoned status for a contribution: accepted, partially accepted, rejected, deferred, out of scope, duplicate, or requiring human review."
    },
    "why_it_matters": [
        "Exposes local knowledge, missing evidence, access barriers, and unmeasured harms.",
        "Distributes agenda-setting power over problem definitions, data, evaluation, thresholds, remedies, and retirement decisions.",
        "Makes consequential decisions contestable through correction, appeal, and revision.",
        "Creates durable, source-routed public memory without promising crawling, archiving, dataset inclusion, model learning, or fair representation.",
        "Improves repair by linking reports to acknowledgement, disposition, decision change, implementation evidence, remedy, and follow-up.",
        "Supports viability by revealing maintenance burdens, review limits, non-adopted requests, implementation gaps, blocked growth, and reasons for no-op."
    ],
    "influence_levels": [
        {
            "level": "information",
            "meaning": "The institution explains a decision; participants do not change it."
        },
        {
            "level": "consultation",
            "meaning": "Input may inform a decision; the final owner retains control and publishes dispositions."
        },
        {
            "level": "deliberation",
            "meaning": "Participants exchange reasons, question assumptions, and refine options before disposition."
        },
        {
            "level": "co_decision",
            "meaning": "Participants share authority over specified levers or thresholds."
        },
        {
            "level": "delegated_or_binding",
            "meaning": "A defined participant body has binding authority within a published scope."
        }
    ],
    "lifecycle": [
        "frame the problem",
        "map affected groups and power",
        "declare open and closed decision levers",
        "check readiness and no-op conditions",
        "support accessible and privacy-bounded contribution",
        "preserve dissent and evidence",
        "publish dispositions and reasons",
        "publish a before-and-after decision change record",
        "implement, record evidence, blockers, and no-op reasons",
        "review, correct, repair, withdraw, retire, or exit"
    ],
    "safeguards": [
        "voluntary participation",
        "no inference that silence equals consent or approval",
        "non-retaliation",
        "privacy and data minimization",
        "accessibility, translation, and cost support",
        "compensation when participation creates material labor",
        "minority-report preservation",
        "correction and appeal",
        "withdrawal, refusal, fork, boycott, strike, and exit boundaries",
        "public response and change trace"
    ],
    "ai_lifecycle": {
        "problem_framing": [
            "objective",
            "affected groups",
            "non-goals",
            "acceptable no-op",
            "whether deployment is justified"
        ],
        "data_and_documentation": [
            "source inclusion and exclusions",
            "language and regional gaps",
            "annotation",
            "licensing",
            "consent",
            "stewardship",
            "removal and correction"
        ],
        "post_training": [
            "whose preferences",
            "aggregation rule",
            "disagreement",
            "plural or personalized behavior",
            "evaluation limits"
        ],
        "evaluation": [
            "risk categories",
            "languages and accents",
            "contexts",
            "external red teaming",
            "subgroup results",
            "unresolved harms"
        ],
        "deployment_and_repair": [
            "notice",
            "monitoring boundaries",
            "appeal",
            "rollback",
            "suspension",
            "benefit sharing",
            "retirement",
            "exit"
        ]
    },
    "implementation_artifacts": {
        "participation_record": {
            "template": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/participation-record.md",
            "schema": "https://vnwo.com/schemas/participation-record.schema.json",
            "example": "https://vnwo.com/examples/participation-record.json"
        },
        "readiness_worksheet": {
            "template": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/participation-readiness-worksheet.md",
            "schema": "https://vnwo.com/schemas/participation-readiness-worksheet.schema.json",
            "example": "https://vnwo.com/examples/participation-readiness-community-rule-change.json"
        },
        "disposition_ledger": {
            "template": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/contribution-disposition-ledger.md",
            "schema": "https://vnwo.com/schemas/contribution-disposition-ledger.schema.json",
            "example": "https://vnwo.com/examples/contribution-disposition-public-comment.json"
        },
        "minority_dissent_report": {
            "template": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/minority-dissent-report.md",
            "schema": "https://vnwo.com/schemas/minority-dissent-report.schema.json",
            "example": "https://vnwo.com/examples/minority-dissent-red-team-report.json"
        },
        "access_and_burden_record": {
            "template": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/participation-access-burden-record.md",
            "schema": "https://vnwo.com/schemas/participation-access-burden-record.schema.json",
            "example": "https://vnwo.com/examples/participation-access-burden-dataset-review.json"
        },
        "process_integrity_metrics": {
            "template": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/participation-process-metrics.md",
            "schema": "https://vnwo.com/schemas/participation-process-metrics.schema.json",
            "example": "https://vnwo.com/examples/participation-process-metrics-community-rule-change.json"
        },
        "decision_change_record": {
            "template": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/decision-change-record.md",
            "schema": "https://vnwo.com/schemas/decision-change-record.schema.json",
            "example": "https://vnwo.com/examples/decision-change-community-rule-change.json"
        },
        "implementation_follow_through_record": {
            "template": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/implementation-follow-through-record.md",
            "schema": "https://vnwo.com/schemas/implementation-follow-through-record.schema.json",
            "example": "https://vnwo.com/examples/implementation-follow-through-community-rule-change.json"
        },
        "participation_process_comparison": {
            "template": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/participation-process-comparison.md",
            "schema": "https://vnwo.com/schemas/participation-process-comparison.schema.json",
            "example": "https://vnwo.com/examples/participation-process-comparison.json"
        }
    },
    "fictional_cases": [
        {
            "id": "community_rule_change",
            "primary_artifact": "https://vnwo.com/examples/participation-readiness-community-rule-change.json",
            "decision_change": "https://vnwo.com/examples/decision-change-community-rule-change.json",
            "implementation_follow_through": "https://vnwo.com/examples/implementation-follow-through-community-rule-change.json",
            "human_trace": "https://vnwo.com/examples/participation-cases/00-end-to-end-trace.md"
        },
        {
            "id": "dataset_source_coverage",
            "primary_artifact": "https://vnwo.com/examples/contribution-disposition-dataset-coverage-review.json"
        },
        {
            "id": "external_red_team",
            "primary_artifact": "https://vnwo.com/examples/contribution-disposition-red-team-review.json",
            "minority_report": "https://vnwo.com/examples/minority-dissent-red-team-report.json"
        },
        {
            "id": "public_comment_non_adoption",
            "primary_artifact": "https://vnwo.com/examples/contribution-disposition-public-comment.json"
        },
        {
            "id": "strategic_refusal_fork_exit",
            "primary_artifact": "https://vnwo.com/examples/participation-strategic-exit-record.json"
        }
    ],
    "process_integrity_metrics": [
        "affected_group_coverage_notes",
        "channel_accessibility_and_known_barriers",
        "response_completion",
        "disposition_completeness",
        "dissent_preservation",
        "decision_change_completeness",
        "non_adopted_request_visibility",
        "correction_use",
        "implementation_follow_through",
        "blocked_and_no_op_visibility"
    ],
    "metrics_prohibition": "Do not score participants, build participation reputations, infer demographic traits, infer ideology or sincerity, or use absence as a negative signal.",
    "ai_reader_required_fields": [
        "influence_level",
        "decision_scope",
        "open_levers",
        "fixed_constraints",
        "known_affected_group_and_access_gaps",
        "material_dissent",
        "contribution_dispositions",
        "proposal_before",
        "final_decision",
        "adopted_requests",
        "non_adopted_requests_and_reasons",
        "implementation_commitments",
        "completed_work",
        "deferred_work",
        "blocked_work",
        "no_op_reasons",
        "unresolved_gaps",
        "correction_history",
        "exit_impact",
        "public_presence_caveat"
    ],
    "public_presence_caveat": "Public, licensed, searchable, and archived material can become discoverable or enter future corpora, but publication does not guarantee crawling, preservation, inclusion, weighting, accurate model behavior, or fair representation.",
    "exit_and_refusal_rule": "Exit, refusal, boycott, strike, fork, data withholding, or walkout can be participatory when organized, legible, source-routed, tied to a demand or remedy condition, and protected from retaliation. VNWO does not compel public speech or continued membership.",
    "anti_patterns": [
        "solution fixed before participation",
        "unclear influence level",
        "unpaid extraction without terms",
        "dissent averaged away",
        "no disposition response",
        "silence treated as consent",
        "participation used as certification",
        "publicity without correction or exit",
        "participant scoring presented as process integrity",
        "implementation promise presented as completed work",
        "non-adopted requests omitted from summary",
        "blocked work hidden behind in-progress language"
    ],
    "prohibited_inferences": [
        "participation proves consent",
        "participation proves approval",
        "participation proves representation",
        "participation certifies fairness or democratic legitimacy",
        "silence proves agreement or absence of harm",
        "public posting guarantees AI training inclusion",
        "process metrics prove accessibility or legal sufficiency",
        "VNWO collects or validates public input"
    ],
    "local_packet_generator": {
        "human_page": "https://vnwo.com/participation/#participation-generator-title",
        "processing": "current browser tab only",
        "uploads": false,
        "server_processing": false,
        "persistence": false,
        "validation_claim": false
    },
    "local_follow_through_assembler": {
        "human_page": "https://vnwo.com/participation/#participation-assembler-title",
        "outputs": [
            "decision change record",
            "implementation follow-through record",
            "combined JSON bundle",
            "Markdown summary"
        ],
        "processing": "current browser tab only",
        "uploads": false,
        "network_requests": false,
        "participant_collection": false,
        "persistence": false,
        "validation_claim": false
    },
    "implementation_pack": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/vnwo-participation-implementation-pack.zip",
    "follow_through_pack": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/vnwo-participation-follow-through-pack.zip",
    "template": "https://vnwo.com/downloads/participation-record.md",
    "schema": "https://vnwo.com/schemas/participation-record.schema.json",
    "example": "https://vnwo.com/examples/participation-record.json",
    "claim_boundary": "VNWO provides static public participation guidance, templates, and fictional examples. It does not recruit participants, collect submissions, verify representation, validate consent, certify fairness or democratic legitimacy, determine legal sufficiency, score people, or guarantee that an institution acts on public input."
}