Open Civics advances through practical activities that scaffold emergent coordination: - **Align** (Mapping) → Establish shared maps and frameworks to cohere diverse participants. - **Coordinate** (Alliances) → Enable actors to pool knowledge and organize shared actions. - **Collaborate** (Initiatives) → Foster direct co-creation of public goods and civic utilities. - **Resource** (Grants) → Channel capital flows into civic innovation through open funding pools. - **Convene** (Gatherings) → Host inclusive assemblies, forums, and festivals that deepen bonds. - **Learn** (Courses) → Educate and train participants in civic skills, tools, and protocols. MIGRATE Participatory activities are strategic functions designed to provide the necessary scaffolding for the emergent self-organization of sovereign actors towards a common goal. These activities, referenced above, each serve a unique function and purpose, generating actionable outputs that are sequenced to produce non-rivalrous ecosystems of civic innovators, organizers, and patrons. #### Align - **Function**: Establish shared maps and frameworks to identify common ground and shared intentions of diverse participants, forming a foundation for collective action. - **Key Output:** Maps - **Purpose**: Facilitate initial alignment of shared maps, to create coherence for effective coordination. #### Coordinate - **Function**: Enable structured, co-sensed interactions that help participants connect and organize without duplicating efforts. Support aligned actors in pooling knowledge and coordinating shared actions. - **Key Output:** Alliances - **Purpose**: Facilitate strategic alliances, support knowledge sharing, and organize collaborative actions across aligned efforts. #### Collaborate - **Function**: Foster direct collaboration to create specific, mutual-benefit outcomes, particularly when initiatives overlap or have common needs. - **Key Output:** Initiatives - **Purpose**: Collaborate as innovators to engage in initiatives that produce mutually beneficial outputs and serve the common good. #### Resource - **Function**: Provide financial, informational, and material resources to build capacity within communities. - **Key Output:** Grants - **Purpose**: Award grants, create funding pools, design transparent resource distribution mechanisms, and coordinate decentralized funding efforts to empower innovators and organizers. #### Convene - **Function**: Host inclusive gatherings that bring together participants to exchange insights, foster cross-pollination, and deepen relationships. - **Key Output:** Gatherings - **Purpose**: Organize events such as retreats, conferences, workshops, and forums that strengthen community bonds, inspire collective action, and support strategic alignment. #### Learn - **Function**: Educate and empower participants through shared knowledge, peer learning, and accessible training resources to foster new capacities. - **Key Output:** Courses - **Purpose**: Develop and share educational materials, host courses and training sessions, and curate a repository of civic skills, tools, and protocols to enhance collective learning and capability-building.