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# CIVICVS Foundation Document
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## Document ID
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CFD-INDEX-2025
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## Title
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CIVICVS Foundation Index — Core Categories and Exemplars
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## Purpose
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To provide a single reference point for all **Foundation Documents (CFDs)** that define the canonical categories of civic artifacts.
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The Foundation Index ensures that every Civic Analyst, whether self-trained or collaborating with others, works from the same baseline: a stable taxonomy of artifact types, their significance, and their exemplars.
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## Foundation Categories
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### 1. **Conflict of Interest (COI)**
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* **Document:** CFD-COI-2021-PFIZER-WEF-JSMITH
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* **Definition:** *Immutable by Origin evidence* revealing structural overlaps between power centers (corporate, political, governance).
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* **Significance:** COIs explain systemic bias and narrative manipulation.
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* **Analyst Rule:** Always treat COIs as **primary artifacts**, not background context.
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### 2. **Contested Immutable Record (CIR)**
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* **Document:** CFD-CIR-1990-WARREN-TRIBAL-CLAIM
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* **Definition:** Official records that are immutable in form, but disputed in accuracy or legitimacy, often confronted by counter-artifacts.
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* **Significance:** CIRs show where institutional, cultural, or scientific authorities remain in permanent tension.
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* **Analyst Rule:** Preserve all sides — never collapse contested records into a single “truth.”
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### 3. **Academic Integrity (AI)**
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* **Document:** CFD-AI-2024-HARVARD-GAY-RESIGNATION
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* **Definition:** Failures of scholarly integrity (plagiarism, falsification, misconduct) that compromise the civic protocol of knowledge production.
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* **Significance:** Academic integrity is a civic duty, not a private professional standard. Its collapse destabilizes institutional trust.
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* **Analyst Rule:** Preserve comparative exhibits and institutional responses as civic artifacts.
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### 4. **Context Dossier (CTX)**
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See CFD-CTX-INDEX.md
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### 5. **Media Actors (MA)**
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* **Document:** CFD-MA-2010-2025-NEW-MEDIA-ACTORS
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* **Definition:** Non-institutional actors who shape discourse (podcasts, influencers, citizen journalists, viral media, fake news, and Civic Analysts).
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* **Significance:** Media actors produce fragile, mutable narratives that must be preserved and classified without mistaking them for evidence.
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* **Analyst Rule:** Distinguish between civic noise and civic evidence; elevate the **Civic Analyst** as the corrective actor producing permanence.
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### 6. **Media Infrastructure (MI)**
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* **Document:** CFD-MI-2025-MEDIA-INFRASTRUCTURE
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* **Definition:** The mediums and protocols through which artifacts are created and transmitted (print, proprietary audio/video, centralized and decentralized platforms, forums, private networks, routing protocols).
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* **Significance:** The infrastructure dictates durability, provenance, and civic legitimacy.
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* **Analyst Rule:**
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* Print = preferred, forensic, immutable.
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* Proprietary media = excluded (profit-driven concealment).
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* Centralized = fragile, censored, must be archived.
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* Decentralized = resilient, independence-preserving.
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* Owner-operated = fragile but true free speech.
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* Private networks = unreliable and balkanized.
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* Routing protocols (Tor, IPFS, blockchain) = future durability, but require provenance safeguards.
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### 7. **Organizational Guise (OG)**
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* **Document:** CFD-OG-2025-ORGANIZATIONAL-GUISE
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* **Definition:** Institutions presenting themselves as serving the public good, but whose preserved artifacts reveal misalignment between claimed purpose and actual output.
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* **Subtypes & Exemplars:**
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1. **Facade NGOs** — *Planned Parenthood, Black Lives Matter*
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2. **Pseudo-Governments** — *Homeowners Associations (HOAs)*
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3. **State-Subsidized Guise** — *National Public Radio (NPR)*
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* **Significance:** OGs corrupt civic trust by disguising political, financial, or coercive agendas under moralized branding.
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* **Analyst Rule:** Always preserve both the claimed purpose (mission statements, branding) and actual outputs (financial filings, audits, measurable services). Misalignment itself is the civic artifact.
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### 8. **Civic Artifact Entry (CAE)**
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* **Document:** CAE-2025-CIVIC-ARTIFACT-ENTRY
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* **Definition:** Individual civic artifacts preserved as evidence of corrosion, coercion, or survival strategies in the post-humane society. Each CAE captures a single event, system, or policy that transforms civic rights into conditional privileges.
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* **Subtypes & Exemplars:**
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* **Social Credit Score** — Conditioning access to housing, credit, or employment on opaque behavioral metrics.
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* **COVID Passport** — Conditioning travel, employment, and civic participation on medical compliance.
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* **Count All Votes** — The tabulation of illegal or ineligible votes alongside legal ballots, eroding electoral integrity.
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* **Significance:** CAEs preserve the *operational evidence* of corrosion — specific cases, policies, and practices that show civic protections failing in practice. They provide the most credible, study-ready artifacts for analysts and future cases.
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* **Analyst Rule:** Always preserve the **case files** (legal proceedings, mandates, administrative orders, personal experiences). Treat CAEs as the *living record* of civic corrosion: concrete, examinable, and auditable.
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⚖️ Do you want me to **expand the “Subtypes & Exemplars” immediately with the full text of CAE-2025-SOCIAL-CREDIT-SCORE** (instead of just the one-line stub), or keep the index concise with stubs only and let the detail live in the separate `.md` files?
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## Analyst Notes
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* **Immutability is the anchor:** Whether by origin (COI), by dispute (CIR), or by construction (AI, MA), artifacts must be preserved immutably.
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* **Separation of roles:** Context Dossiers (CTX) provide structural maps; Artifact Entries (CAE) capture single items; Foundation Documents (CFD) define categories.
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* **Ethics over morality:** Analysts judge artifacts against ethical protocols (disclosure, integrity, transparency), not moral rhetoric.
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* **Infrastructure and organization:** Civic Analysts must consider both the **channel** (Media Infrastructure) and the **guise** of institutions when evaluating civic claims.
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## Civic Consequence
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The CIVICVS Foundation Index now defines **seven core civic artifact categories**: COI, CIR, AI, CTX, MA, MI, OG.
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Together, they form the structural backbone of the discipline. With these categories, any civic controversy — from policy disputes to NGO scandals to viral misinformation — can be analyzed within a reproducible, auditable framework that balances artifact permanence, context, actor, infrastructure, and organizational legitimacy.
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✅ **Status:** Foundation Index updated (2025).
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**Categories Established:** COI, CIR, AI, CTX, MA, MI, OG.
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