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Open Supply Hub

Maintains a common production-location registry and matching software for organizations connecting supply-chain information.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 74–84/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Shared facility identifiers, location matching and mapping software for civil-society groups and other supply-chain stakeholders.

Open-source evidence · license checked

  • Open Supply Hub platform — MIT license file. Organization’s role: maintainer.
    Named repository license inspected on the review date; dependencies, data, content, trademarks and hosted services have separate terms. License-file snapshot: d978dbba8c64c62c2939aa8a7bf4a348b8bcaa96.

License checked 2026-10-27. This is not a security audit, proof of current support or effectiveness, or a promise of free hosting. A sponsor or steward is not necessarily the sole developer. Unchecked profiles are not evidence of closed code. No extra score points are added.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Coordination · Gatekeepers — editorial, partial alignment.

Common identifiers help groups connect otherwise fragmented information and find relevant partners. Accessible reference infrastructure can lower an information gate, without proving worker power or accountability.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Shared supply-chain location identifiers and reusable mapping infrastructure

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

3 / 4

Shared identifiers and deduplication infrastructure address recurring information fragmentation across supply-chain stakeholders.

Institutional reach

4 / 4

A common cross-country facility reference can serve civil society, researchers and companies across sectors; platform coverage is not independently audited here.

Durability

2 / 4

Persistent identifiers and reusable code can support continuing coordination, but data accuracy and services need active maintenance.

Scalability

4 / 4

MIT-licensed platform code can be reused; hosted premium features, API access, data rights and deployment costs remain separate constraints.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

Unknown: current marginal funding, restricted allocations, delivery capacity and the counterfactual have not been audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Unknown: open licenses, participation or contributor governance do not establish audited consequential rights for affected communities.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; primary mechanism and named repository license inspected

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Do civil-society users obtain safer, more accurate links and coordinate effective remedy or improvements beyond feasible alternatives after costs and data risks are included?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design and license; low for systemic attribution. Open Supply Hub Inc.’s shared infrastructure and named code repository; not an independent verification of factory conditions, certifications or all downstream data.

What remains uncertain

Facility matching errors, incomplete records and unsafe disclosure can cause harm. A mapped factory is not a verified safe workplace. Hosted free downloads have limits and some features are paid; open-source software does not imply unrestricted hosted/API access or uniform data rights.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage