The OpenCivics Network is composed of four participant archetypes: - **Allies** → those who are curious and aligned with the vision (students, educators, neighbours, technologists). - **Innovators** → those who experiment with open civic systems and protocols, prototyping tools and practices for the commons. - **Organizers** → those who weave people and efforts together, cultivating alignment, coordination, and collaboration. - **Patrons** → those who resource civic innovation through financial, social, and cultural capital, sustaining the ecosystem’s growth. These archetypes create upward spirals as they work together: - Allies orient and amplify the vision—sharing stories, mapping local needs, and inviting participation.- - Innovators coordinate globally to improve the modularity, interoperability, and composability of their civic innovations. - Locally, Innovators partner with Organizers to ensure the civic infrastructure they're building is directly shaped, informed, and co-created by local communities. - Organizers leverage the shared body of knowledge held by the OpenCivics Network and Consortium to improve their ability to actively participate in local stewardship activities, establishing new civic systems and culture that meet local needs. - Patrons support both this local and global effort by providing resourcing to innovators and organizers as they document their efforts and scale their learnings by empowering others to do the same. Together, these roles embody a diversity of participation archetypes who interface with and weave localized, regional, and affiliation based activities, each necessary for the flourishing of open civic systems and culture.