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Sortition Foundation

Builds OpenDLP and provides democratic-lottery services for citizens’ assemblies while advocating permanent deliberative institutions.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 73–83/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: OpenDLP selection software and democratic-lottery support for organizations implementing deliberative participation.

Open-source evidence · license checked

  • Open Democratic Lottery Platform — Apache-2.0 license file. Organization’s role: maintainer.
    Named OpenDLP repository license inspected; personal data, hosting, implementation services and other projects have separate terms. License-file snapshot: 0345e1746825a77a3601c904dcb8cb0e7839f29a.

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.

Selection infrastructure and assembly-support methods can lower implementation barriers and help groups coordinate deliberation. Representative selection does not by itself make an assembly’s decisions binding.

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

Reusable democratic-lottery infrastructure and deliberative institution support

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

4 / 4

Its stated goal is institutionalizing permanent, consequential citizens’ assemblies, alongside tools for their selection processes.

Institutional reach

3 / 4

Services and software support national and regional deliberative institutions; event counts do not establish inclusive or effective governance.

Durability

2 / 4

A permanent institutional design could outlast grants, but actual powers, official uptake and operational continuity remain uncertain.

Scalability

3 / 4

Shared selection software supports reuse, while representative recruitment, facilitation, accessibility and legitimacy require contextual work.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

Unknown: current marginal funding, delivery capacity, displacement and a credible counterfactual have not been audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Unknown: stated values, participation, consultation or contributor governance do not establish audited consequential decision rights for affected communities.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; current primary mechanism sources inspected and named license file checked

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

A testable next question

Do supported assemblies achieve representative, informed and consequential decisions with sustained public accountability beyond feasible alternative processes?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design; low for systemic attribution. The UK not-for-profit company limited by guarantee and its OpenDLP/institutional-support model; nonprofit status is not presented as registered-charity status or a guarantee of US deductibility.

What remains uncertain

Recruitment bias, nonresponse, manipulation, privacy and tokenistic public processes can undermine benefits. Workers’ control of the organization is not automatically beneficiary governance. A license check does not validate selection fairness, implementation security or the effectiveness of constitutional reform.

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