We, all participants of Semo.
We adopt this Manifest as our shared compass for co-creating an open, regenerative economic network. Guided by collective intelligence, we commit to evolve Semo together for the benefit of present and future life. This Manifest is the living expression of the Semo Constitution — read or download the full text below.
We envision an open global economy where every transaction enriches people in relation to one another and our shared environment.
To provide tools, culture and governance that enable anyone to measure, reward and exchange value in ways that regenerate ecosystems, uplift society and build shared prosperity.
Seven values and principles.
- Openness. Voluntary participation, transparency, and inclusive collective decisions.
- Holistic abundance. Thriving through regenerative participation that benefits all life.
- Reciprocity. Relationships and protocols distributing mutually complementary value to all.
- True freedom. Collective decisions that create systemic direction yet impose nothing.
- Integrity. Being and acting from intuition and authentic coherence with who we truly are.
- Adaptability. Protocols designed to evolve organically with changing circumstances.
- Reliability. Growing trust in each other, the life around us, and our shared future.
How Semo is held — and let go.
Semo is stewarded, not owned. The people with curation access today — the stewards — promise to make their own role irrelevant, and to drop their rights once it is.
Held in trust
The network and its commons cannot be sold or captured. Capital contributions confer no special voting rights and no veto powers.
One human, one vote
Every verified human has the right to one account to propose, discuss and vote on matters that affect Semo.
Designed for self-dissolution
Stewards promise to develop decentralised governance until their steward role becomes irrelevant — then to drop their rights.
Community commitments.
We each commit to:
- Participate with curiosity and respect.
- Share knowledge and code openly.
- Reward and celebrate regenerative contributions.
- Help resolve conflicts restoratively.
- Continually explore, learn, prototype and improve our systems.
- Design for growth to pursue the vision at scale.
- Act as good future ancestors.
Rights and responsibilities.
Every verified human has the right to one account to propose, discuss and vote on matters that affect Semo. Every human and entity with curation access to Semo promises to:
- Ensure accessible insight regarding any change to Semo for anyone anywhere.
- Ensure that each change to Semo signals acceptance of this Constitution.
- Ensure that, if any clause is found unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect.
- Develop decentralised, collective governance to make their steward-role irrelevant.
- Develop Semo towards a regenerative and equitable economy.
- Embody that traditional resources and revenue streams with all their imperfections are used to grow Semo into a growing self-sustaining system effectively.
- Enable private financial gain from the network to arise only from transparent, rule-based flows adopted by or with agreement of the community.
- Focus initially on underprivileged people regarding adoption of the Semo economy.
- Drop all rights to make changes to Semo as soon as the other promises are fulfilled.
Changing the Constitution is only possible through a voting process involving one vote for each account holder. Anyone with curation access to Semo can be outvoted from curation access.
Money flows in. It does not capture.
- Purpose. Accepting grants, redeemable capital, or other non-extractive instruments to bootstrap development and mission-aligned growth.
- Capital contributions confer no special voting rights and no veto powers.
- All capital agreements, flows, and balances are disclosed via public accounting.
- Any financial return must be (a) capped, (b) paid only from designated surplus, and (c) never compromise core services and contributor rewards.
- Voice tokens remain distinct from and unrelated to any capital inflow.
Constitution 0.2 — Latest version · History: 0.1 · Available also as Semo Base Document and Nederlands.
Live the Manifest.
Adoption is not a signature — it's a way of building.