What We’re Building — Cloud Commons Canada

Context — 🌍 Why We Exist

The internet became a walled garden. We pour in time, energy, and labour, yet capture little of the value our activity creates. Most of that value is centralized in platforms that control the rails and keep the meter hidden.

Around the world, public digital infrastructure is emerging — digital ID, trusted payments, open data. In Canada, it’s scattered. Our work is to knit it together and make it usable at street level: tools that reveal flows, route consent, and return value locally.

🧰 The Toolset

1️⃣ LEON — The Watchdog

Personal privacy + data awareness. See who tracks you, how value flows, and route your data through an ethical pipeline that can return benefits to you and your neighbourhood.

Meet LEON →

2️⃣ Ethical Data Pipeline

Royalties + control across the data life cycle. Treat “digital exhaust” like culture with lineage: portable rights, permissions, and revenue hooks that persist.

Read the theory →

3️⃣ Parler — The Civic Engine

Part truth-arcade, part democracy dashboard. Headlines and council agendas become structured dialogue (via Polis), balancing play with accountability.

See Parler →

4️⃣ Commons Education & Infrastructure

Workshops, open source, and neighbourhood labs that train people to build and govern their own digital economies.

Schedule a meeting → Talk partnerships

🛠️ Our Development Stages

I — Stage I: Awareness & Prototype

Now → 2026

LEON Phase 0 prototype: Android watchdog + web privacy grader. “Zero to Everyone” manifesto + explainer series. Pilot tests with universities, privacy researchers, and digital-rights NGOs.

MVP Android VPN proxy Privacy grade Pilot cohorts Join a pilot

II — Stage II: The Ethical Pipeline

2026 → 2027

User data pods + royalty contracts; consent-first value routing. Parler Civic pilot: headlines ↔ council agendas via Polis. Commons Education Hub for schools & municipalities.

Solid pods Data royalties Parler Civic Civic curricula Municipality partners

III — Stage III: The Living Commons

2027 → 2030

Federated city-to-city commons network. Data-to-dignity economies: royalties, research credits, local funding loops. Canadian human-centred data standard with government, academia, and civil society.

Federation Standards Local finance Standards working group Coalition

🤝 Partnerships We’re Seeking

We’re building a coalition that ships real infrastructure and keeps it public-minded. Skim the briefs; expand for specifics.

Academic Allies

Privacy EngInfo SchoolsGovTech Labs

Run publishable pilots that measure privacy impact and value return.

Co-design LEON pilots & data-royalty protocols.
Independent evaluations with open methods.
Joint papers & student fellowships.

Propose a study →

Tooling: LEON watchdog, Solid pods, provenance.
Outputs: papers, datasets, reproducible dashboards.

Technologists & Designers

VC/SSISolidProvenanceUX

Open-source builders for privacy tooling, pods, wallets, and civic UX.

Solid pods, verifiable credentials, portable consent.
Playable democracy interfaces & discovery.
Testnets, benchmarks, security reviews.

Contribute →

Stacks: TypeScript, Rust, Android VPN, graph backends.
Design sprints + accessibility audits.

Funders & Philanthropy

NonprofitStandardsPublic Good

Back pilots & standards with transparent milestones and reporting.

Governance & banking readiness underway.
Pilot acceleration and open standards.
Public dashboards & audits.

Schedule a meeting →

Phased grants: prototype → pilot → standard → scale.
Shared IP pathways to keep it public-minded.

💡 The Bigger Picture

Monetizing individual data isn’t enough. We’re rebuilding the pipeline so data behaves like culture — carrying authorship, consent, and royalties wherever it goes.

Through grounded definitions of ID, Identity, and Identification, we’re reopening the market’s hand — from a fist of few to a commons of many.

We’re building the missing half of the internet: the one that serves people, not platforms.

⚙️ What We’re Building