Citizen Infra Builders Club
Fiscal Host: The Social Change Nest
We support builders of modern tools & protocols that serve mutualism and solidarity.
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Funds hosting, API costs, and development of open-source citizen infrastructure — community dashboards, decentralized scheduling, and tools that pu... Read more
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£5 GBP / month
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Sustain the full Citizen Infra ecosystem — hosting, development, and expansion of community tools to new cities and communities. Sponsors are liste... Read more
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£100 GBP / month
Projects
Support the following initiatives from Citizen Infra Builders Club.
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Open protocol for sovereign, verifiable, interoperable deliberation — built on AT Protocol. Colla...
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Public directory of MCP servers and skills built from CC-licensed and public-domain books on comm...
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Group scheduling on the AT Protocol — your polls live in your Bluesky account, not a centralized ...
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Chrome extension replacing your new tab with a community dashboard — curated links, Bluesky feeds...
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Chrome extension turning your new tab into a neighborhood dashboard — community-curated local new...
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Shared admin platform for community organizers — manage participation opportunities, links, and e...
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Recurring session where CIBC members showcase their projects to peers, organizers, and funders. M...
Top financial contributors
Chris Lunch
£20 GBP since Mar 2026
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Today’s balance£18.50 GBP
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News from Citizen Infra Builders Club
Updates on our activities and progress.
Book Power launch + DDS on World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
📚 Book Power · Artem launched bookpower.org — a directory of MCP servers and skills built from free / openly-licensed books on commons, facilitation, demo...
Published on May 8, 2026 by Artem
CIBC Season 2 Town Hall — April 10, 2026
Overview The CIBC Season 2 Town Hall brought together original and new members for a 102-minute session. Two main agenda items: a presentation of the Decentralized Deliberation Standard (DDS) by Nicolas Gimenez (Agora Citiz...
Published on April 14, 2026 by Artem
Introducing Open Collective MCP — manage your collective page with AI
We built an MCP server for Open Collective — it lets AI assistants read and manage collective pages through the GraphQL API v2. What it does · 19 tools across 6 domains: pro...
Published on April 4, 2026 by Artem
About
"If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking." — Buckminster Fuller
We build citizen infrastructure — open-source tools that teach collective action, solidarity, and shared stewardship through use. Not apps or platforms in the traditional sense, but tools crafted to reshape how people relate to each other and to their communities.
When digital platforms treat users as products rather than participants, the antidote isn't better regulation — it's building tools that nurture citizen empowerment and the people's capacity to act together.
Principles
- Pedagogical by design — every interaction teaches users to think collectively rather than individually
- Ownership-enabling — users become stewards, not consumers
- Solidarity-building — designed to strengthen connections and shared purpose
- Sovereignty-preserving — communities maintain control over their tools and data
- Interoperable — small, loosely coupled tools working as part of a larger ecosystem
- Antifragile — growing stronger under stress rather than more brittle
Get Involved
We're a community of builders, designers, researchers, and citizens forging tools for democratic participation, collective intelligence, and community self-rule. If you're building citizen infrastructure or want to support those who are: