# Douglass Technology Douglass: Technology For Peace, Love, Purpose. # The Douglass Browser ### ### [![Screenshot 2023-02-02 at 5.08.14 PM.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2023-02/scaled-1680-/UlWMvQrJsmIUyHRH-screenshot-2023-02-02-at-5-08-14-pm.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2023-02/UlWMvQrJsmIUyHRH-screenshot-2023-02-02-at-5-08-14-pm.png) #### **[Download the Douglass Browser for MacOS](https://gitsoul.earth/attachments/f13d90d3-839e-4366-a52b-cda782491662 "Download")** **\*The Douglass Browser is for** **the M1 and M2 chip systems** The Douglass Browser is aligned with the [Beloved Community License ](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/the-douglass-community-license)and the [Beloved Community Pledge](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/douglass-community-pledge). The Douglass Browser includes the [Hamer Community Network](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/hamer), the Douglass Privacy Protecting Search Engine and Douglass News. Douglass builds and designs Intentional Products, and Technologies for: Peace, Love and Purpose. ### Douglass Browser Features - **Privacy Protection First -** The Douglass Browser uses some of the highest possible privacy protecting settings to protect your data and your web browsing privacy. - **[Douglass Search ](https://search.douglass.earth)-**A Privacy Protecting Non tracking Search engine. - **No Ad’s -** With an integrated Ad Blocker the Douglass Browser presents content without ads. - **[Hamer](https://hamer.earth) -** The Douglass Communities Social Network - [Rosa -](https://rosa.earth) The Douglass Communities Communication and Collaboration App. - **[Douglass News](https://douglass.news) - **The Douglass News service is the go to source for News, Culture, and Art. - **Le noir est beau -** Dark mode for all sites visited. ### # Privacy Policy: Douglass Browser The Douglass Browser is **privacy-focused.** It offers tracking protection and removes many features that decrease users' privacy, such as Pocket, Telemetry, data collection and startup profiling. It is also able to erase all online data on your system without the use of add-ons. We strive to collect only the absolute minimum to provide you with a useable web experience. We try to avoid any personal data where we can and keep data collection to the minimum. We believe you should always know what data we collect from you and how we use it, and that you should have meaningful control over both. We want to empower you to make the best decisions about the information that you share with us. The Douglass Browser does not collect telemetry about your installation - any telemetry modules are disable when the browser is built. What you do in your browser is only known by you. The Douglass Browser uses the privacy protecting Douglass Search Engine. With The Douglass Search Engine their is No user tracking, No user profiling, AND Cookies are not used by default. ### Improve security for users everywhere Desktop versions of The Douglass Browser check for updates by persistently connecting to Douglass' update servers. Your Douglass Browser version, language, specific search configurations and device operating system are used to apply the correct updates. The Desktop version of the Douglass Browser periodically connects to external services to protect you and others from malicious add-ons. Your Douglass Browser version and language, device operating system, and list of installed add-ons are needed to apply and update the add-ons blocklist. When you visit a secure website (usually identified with a URL starting with "HTTPS"), The Douglass Browser validates the website's certificate. This may involve The Douglass Browser sending certain information about the website to the Certificate Authority identified by that website. Opting out increases the risk of your private information being intercepted. The Douglass Browser always asks before determining and sharing your location with a requesting website (for example, if a map website needs your location to provide directions). To determine location, The Douglass Browser will use your operating system’s geolocation features. If you allow a website to send you notifications, The Douglass Browser connects with a third party service and uses your IP address to relay the message. The Douglass Browser nor the third party service can access the content of messages. # Douglass Community [Douglass Community](https://douglass.community "Douglass Community") is a Community for: Peace, Love and Purpose. The Douglass Community service includes “FreedomTrain” our Douglass Community Economics and Governance service. A foundation of intentional Beloved Community aligned policies ensures that the products and technologies we build are in service too: Life, Earth and Communities rather than dominating, replacing, and exploiting them. The Douglass Community Platform brings a systemic advantage to those who work with it
- Participate in Douglass Community Governance - Participate in Douglass Community Actions - Receive Douglass Community Grants - Create and Participate with Douglass Organizations
# Douglass Community Privacy Policy ### Douglass Community Privacy Policy This Privacy Policy describes how The Douglass Community collects, uses, shares, and safeguards personal information. This Privacy Policy also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your personal information, and how you can reach us to get answers to your questions. Nothing in this policy shall be construed to mean that any particular law applies to the data or processing described herein, including without limitation the California Consumer Privacy Act and the General Data Protection Regulation. ### We do not sell your data We do not sell your personal data. Our business model is to provide you with a free edition and we charge you for extra services or features, according to the plan you choose. What you process within Rosa is yours and stays your. We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions. ### Types of Data Collected **Personal Data** While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: - Email address - First name and last name - Cookies and Usage Data - We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you, if you have provided consent to this processing or if we can base this processing on a legitimate interest that is not overridden by your fundamental rights. You may in the future withdraw that consent or object to receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us **Account Data** Rosa requires that you register for a personalized account. Account data may include in addition your account name, authentication information, registration date, contact information, payment information, and any other information associated with your account. **Usage Data** We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service, incl. by or through a mobile device (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, this Usage Data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the app version, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. As a byproduct of the usage data within a Rosa Administrators may choose to share aggregated and therefore anonymous, non-personal data with us to help us learn more about how our product is being used. **Location Data** We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our Service (only to allow you to share your location to another user via Rosa, if it was enabled by the administrator). You can enable or disable location services when you use our Service at any time, through your device settings. **Content you provide** When you use our Services you may provide content into that service (e.g. upload file, send a message). **Tracking & Cookies Data** We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. We regularly monitor aggregated activity data on our infrastructure, but it is not tracking of individual users in the sense of this paragraph, which only occurs when we have a legitimate interest to do so (e.g. for security and compliance purposes). We do perform regular tracking on Rosa. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Examples of Cookies we use: - Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service. - Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings. - Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes. # How do we use information? We collect and use your personal data to the extent necessary to carry out our operations and provide our services as well as to comply with any regulatory obligations in our activities. These purposes are defined in more detail below: - To provide and maintain our Service - To notify you about changes to our Service - To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so - To provide customer support - To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service - To monitor the usage of our Service - To detect, prevent and address technical issues - To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about if you have provided consent to receive this information or the processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights. # Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data In accordance with the applicable regulations, we may only use your personal data for at least one of the following reasons: **To comply with legal and regulatory obligations** We collect and use your personal data to comply various legal and regulatory obligations, such as: - Anti-money laundering regulations and counter-financing of terrorism regulations, including Know Your Customer (KYC) obligations. - Regulations relating to international financial sanctions and embargoes. **To fulfil our legitimate interest** We also use your personal data to fulfill our legitimate interests, which include the following: - Provision and delivery of our products and services. - Marketing and customer communication and development of our customer relationships. - Development of our products and services. - Security and safety of our IT and facilities. **Based on your consent** If processing of certain personal data requires your consent (e.g. cookies), we will inform you of this including details of the specific processing activity and request your consent to such processing. You may request to revoke your consent at any time. # Retention of Data Douglass P.B.C will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. Douglass P.B.C will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods. # Transfer of Data Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States or other jurisdictions deemed not not have an adequate level of data protection deemed by the competent authorities of your residence. Douglass P.B.C. will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information. # Disclosure of Data ### Business Transaction If Douglass P.B.C. is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy. ### Disclosure for Law Enforcement Under certain circumstances, Douglass P.B.C. may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). ### Legal Requirements Douglass P.B.C. may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: - To comply with a legal obligation - To protect and defend the rights or property of Douglass P.B.C. - To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service. - To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public # Your Rights In accordance with applicable regulations and where applicable, you have the following rights**:** - **To access:** you can obtain information relating to the processing of your personal data, and a copy of such personal data. - **To rectify:** where you consider that your personal data are inaccurate or incomplete, you can request that such personal data be modified accordingly. - **To erase:** you can require the deletion of your personal data, to the extent permitted by law. - **To restrict**: you can request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. - **To object:**you can object to the processing of your personal data, on grounds relating to your particular situation. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, which includes profiling related to such direct marketing. - **To withdraw your consent:**where you have given your consent for the processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. - **To data portability:** where legally applicable, you have the right to have the personal data you have provided to us be returned to you or, where technically feasible, transferred to a third party. # Service Providers We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. # Children’s Privacy Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers. # Changes to This Privacy Policy We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. # Hamer ### **Welcome to the Hamer Community Network** [![Fannie_Lou_Hamer_ copy.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-05/scaled-1680-/E2HLdaXv9TZBnL7k-fannie-lou-hamer-copy.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-05/E2HLdaXv9TZBnL7k-fannie-lou-hamer-copy.jpg) #### **Hamer is an intentional Community Network Centered in: Peace, Love and Purpose.** [Hamer ](https://hamer.earth)is named in Honor of [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer). Fannie Lou Hamer is an American [voting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights) and [women's rights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights) activist, [community organizer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_organizing), and a leader in the [civil rights movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement). She was the co-founder and vice-chair of the [Freedom Democratic Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Freedom_Democratic_Party), which she represented at the [1964 Democratic National Convention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Democratic_National_Convention). Hamer also organized [Mississippi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi)'s [Freedom Summer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Summer) along with the [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee) (SNCC). She was also a co-founder of the [National Women's Political Caucus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Women%27s_Political_Caucus), an organization created to recruit, train, and support women of all races who wish to seek election to government office. ### Hamer Basic Concepts #### Hamer Terms and Conditions The Hamer Community is aligned with the [Beloved Community Pledge](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/douglass-community-pledge) and The[ Beloved Community License](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/the-douglass-community-license). Hamer is a community where anyone that is centered in Peace, Love and Purposed is welcome to participate. Hamer Community Members come from different countries, speak different languages, and represent different races, gender identities, sexualities, nationalities, cultures, religions, abilities, ages, incomes, immigration statuses, levels of education, and life experiences. We’re all here together trying to foster positive conversations, and build a community centered in Peace, Love and Purposed, By being a member of the Hamer Community , you agree to model the behavior you hope to see from others and follow the the [Hamer Terms and Conditions](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/hamer-terms-and-conditions) and the ideals of the [Beloved Community Pledge](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/douglass-community-pledge) and the [Beloved Community License .](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/the-douglass-community-license) ### How Hamer Works #### Members & Groups[​](https://docs.humhub.org/docs/about/humhub/#users--groups "Direct link to heading") Members of the Hamer Community Network can be assigned to one or multiple member groups. Member groups are used to manage group level permissions as for example the permission to create spaces or access certain areas of the Hamer network as the directory. You can either automatically assign members users to a certain group or let them choose from a set of user groups in the registration process. #### Spaces[​](https://docs.humhub.org/docs/about/humhub/#spaces "Direct link to heading") The Hamer Community Network is separated into multiple spaces. A space serves as an independent area within The Hamer Commun Network with it's own set of members. Most content created within The Hamer Community Network as posts, events or wiki pages are linked to a specific space. Space's cam be created for projects, or any kind of community topic. #### Streams[​](https://docs.humhub.org/docs/about/humhub/#streams "Direct link to heading") In Hamer Community Network, streams are used to display and filter recently created contents and activities. The following types of streams are available in the Hamer Community Network. - **Space stream**: This space level wall stream includes contents related to a specific space - **Profile stream**: This profile level wall stream includes contents related to a certain user and by default also includes content created by a user within spaces - **Dashboard stream**: A network wide wall stream includes contents of spaces and profiles a user is following - **Activity stream**: Sidebar stream which lists activities within the whole network or on space level #### Activities[​](https://docs.humhub.org/docs/about/humhub/#activities "Direct link to heading") Beside the wall streams, which display actual content entries as posts or calendar events, the activity stream lists various information about recent activities within The Hamer Community network or a single space. An activity for example could be a new member joining a space or a user liking a post. Activities are also part of the summary mail sent out to users to keep them up-to-date with recent network activities. #### Posts[​](https://docs.humhub.org/docs/about/humhub/#posts "Direct link to heading") In The Hamer Community Network, posts are the simplest form of content. Members can create posts directly within the start page of a space or on their member profile wall. Hamer provides a WYSIWYG editor for most text based contents in order to add simple formatting as headlines or bold text as well as oEmbed or file uploads. #### Notifications[​](https://docs.humhub.org/docs/about/humhub/#notifications "Direct link to heading") Notifications are sent out to member to inform them about user related events as new comments or likes on a posts. In contrast to activities, notifications are always directed to a single member and not the whole network or a space. #### Dashboard[​](https://docs.humhub.org/docs/about/humhub/#dashboard "Direct link to heading") By default, the dashboard is the starting point for all of Hamer Community Network members. The dashboard provides a quick overview of all recent contents and activities of all spaces and profiles a user is following and may contains additional sidebar elements as for example a task or calendar overview snippet. #### Directory[​](https://docs.humhub.org/docs/about/humhub/#directory "Direct link to heading") The directory serves as an overview of the whole network and provides a list of groups, members, spaces as well as a wall stream with all public user profile posts. #### Topics[​](https://docs.humhub.org/docs/about/humhub/#topics "Direct link to heading") Topics can be used to classify and filter contents within a stream by attaching one or multiple topic labels to a content entry. #### The Hamer Community is aligned with the [Beloved Community Pledge](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/douglass-community-pledge) and [The Beloved Community License.](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/the-douglass-community-license) # Hamer Terms and Conditions #### Hamer is an intentional Community centered in Peace, Love and Purpose. [![Fannie_Lou_Hamer_ copy.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-05/scaled-1680-/E2HLdaXv9TZBnL7k-fannie-lou-hamer-copy.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-05/E2HLdaXv9TZBnL7k-fannie-lou-hamer-copy.jpg) #### **Hamer is named in Honor of “Fannie Lou Hamer”** Fannie Lou Hamer is an American [voting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights "Voting rights") and [women's rights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights "Women's rights") activist, [community organizer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_organizing "Community organizing"), and a leader in the [civil rights movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement "Civil rights movement"). She was the co-founder and vice-chair of the [Freedom Democratic Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Freedom_Democratic_Party "Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party"), which she represented at the [1964 Democratic National Convention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Democratic_National_Convention "1964 Democratic National Convention"). Hamer also organized [Mississippi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi "Mississippi")'s [Freedom Summer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Summer "Freedom Summer") along with the [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee") (SNCC). She was also a co-founder of the [National Women's Political Caucus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Women%27s_Political_Caucus "National Women's Political Caucus"), an organization created to recruit, train, and support women of all races who wish to seek election to government office. The Hamer Community is aligned with the Beloved Community Pledge and The Beloved Community License. Hamer is a community where anyone that is centered in Peace, Love and Purposed is welcome to participate. Hamer Community Members come from different countries, speak different languages, and represent different races, gender identities, sexualities, nationalities, cultures, religions, abilities, ages, incomes, immigration statuses, levels of education, and life experiences. We’re all here together trying to foster positive conversations, and build a community centered in Peace, Love and Purposed, By being a member of the Hamer Community , you agree to model the behavior you hope to see from others and follow the guidelines below as well as the ideals of the Beloved Community Pledge and the Beloved Community License . #### **No promotional posting, no spam** The Hamer Community is not a site for self-promotion, SEO, PR, marketing, or advertising. There are extremely limited circumstances under which it is acceptable to link to your own work, your company’s work, or any work you’ve been hired to promote. Posting outside of these circumstances is grounds for an immediate ban. If you’re joining specifically for any of these purposes, stop now and save us both some time. #### **Speak for yourself, not others** Speak from your own experience and perspective. Say things you genuinely mean (rather than playing devil’s advocate, trolling, or saying bad things ironically). Avoid downplaying a problem just because it is not a problem for you. Avoid speaking on behalf of other people and discussing their experience like an academic topic; invite them to speak for themselves instead! #### **Be considerate and respectful** The Hamer Community is a space for conversations, not a contest; add your own informed perspective and nuance instead of shutting others down. Extend the benefit of the doubt in conversations and earn the benefit of the doubt that others are extending to you. Listen if someone says they’re upset and be willing to apologize and step back. #### **Be sensitive to context** Read a post before commenting. Engage with what people are really saying. Respond appropriately to people’s mood and investment in a topic. Refrain from making light jokes in a serious discussion. Avoid analogies or hypotheticals in charged discussions; these often involve ignoring or distorting the actual context of the conversation. #### **Be aware of your privilege** Recognize your own positioning. Be aware of how much space you are occupying in a discussion and avoid exclusionary or insensitive statements that can harm or alienate other people. In a conversation where you’re in a privileged group, take active care to avoid making it about yourself or diverting the topic (intentionally or accidentally) particularly where systemic power is involved (race, class, gender, etc). Remember that each person has different stakes and direct experience in a conversation. #### **Be mindful of micro-aggressions** Use people’s correct name, gender, and pronouns. Be respectful. Do not exoticize or joke about another culture’s touchstones — things like names, food, language, religious concepts. Avoid stereotypes and outdated terms. Believe people about their own experiences. #### **Accept feedback gracefully** Be willing to listen and apologize if someone says you’ve said something hurtful. If someone criticizes your ideas or statements, or points out harmful impacts, it’s not a personal attack. Remember that you can do harm without intending to. Sometimes it is necessary to take a step back and let the conversation move on. ### **Hamer Content Policy** Hamer is a community where anyone that is aligned with Peace, Love, and Purpose can participate. We encourage open conversations between members and value the different contributions that make the Hamer Community positive and dynamic. We have a set of Community Guidelines that we expect all members to follow and staff who provide round-the-clock moderation and support. In order to keep the discussions in the Hamer Community healthy, we have outlined the policy below to serve as a guide of the types of content and behavior that will be considered inappropriate and may lead to removal of content, warnings or having your account banned. #### **Inappropriate Content** The following types of content or behavior will not be tolerated: **Hateful content:** Posting racial slurs, deliberately misgendering/misnaming, or other racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise hateful speech. This includes making hateful statements ironically or sarcastically. **Name calling:** Any kind of name calling and/or cursing directed at others in a conversation. (Pointing out that a statement is inappropriate or otherwise problematic is not name-calling.) In general, cursing is fine on the site, but cursing at someone else is not okay. **Trolling:** Systematically posting content solely intended to upset or provoke an angry response. **Doxxing:** Posting someone else’s personal information without consent. If someone hasn’t explicitly and intentionally brought their personal information into a public discussion, don’t make that decision for them. **Hacking Impersonation Misrepresentation:** Compromising or accessing another person’s account or pretending to be somebody else. **Stalking/harassment:** Any unwanted and obsessive attention or otherwise creepy behavior making other members or staff. This includes contacting someone after they have said they do not want to be contacted by you. **Discrimination:** Any type of discrimination or offensive content based on (but not limited to) age, appearance, body shape, ethnicity, disability, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation. This includes demanding members to provide information about their identity within a conversation. **Spamming:** Posting or advertising unsolicited commercial/promotional content. **Violence:** It can be okay to talk in strongly critical terms about people’s words but don’t cross the line into any threats of violence or wishing violence on other people. ### **The Beloved Community Pledge** At Douglass we are committed to a world where Peace, Love and Purpose replace hatred, exploitation, and violence. Now is the time to create technology for: Peace, Love and Purpose in order to bring about a new Modern Future of Joy and Abundance for all.
- I recognize the humanity of the multitudes that are oppressed, persecuted, incarcerated, and in struggle. - I declare that violence, poverty, racism, sexism, incarceration, surveillance, militarism and environmental destruction cannot persist. - I recognize that reparations and atonement are part of a needed community healing process. - I recognize that Housing, Food, Health Care and Education are Human Rights that should be provided to all. - I pursue a world of Peace, Love, Purpose and abundance for all. - I make change through nonviolence and radical love for all and for our sacred planet. - I commit to the inspired change needed to create a more humanely just and coherent future. - I commit to becoming aware of those forces that seek to undermine the [Beloved Community](https://thekingcenter.org/about-tkc/the-king-philosophy/). - Whenever possible I will use (and create) technology which is aligned with Peace, Love and Purpose.
### **The Beloved Community License** This Beloved Community License has been created out of Peace, Love, and Purpose. BELOVED COMMUNITY LICENSE (BCL) The BCL is a Non Violent Software, Hardware and Product License that has been created for: Peace, Love and Purpose. The BCL is based on an understanding and recognition of: Martin Luther King’s “[Beloved Community](https://thekingcenter.org/about-tkc/the-king-philosophy/)”, and a Social Activism that pursues a future of Peace, Love and Purpose for all. **Recognition and Possibilities**
- When possible Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL will be used to improve the lives of the Multitudes of the World that are oppressed and in struggle. - When possible Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL will be used to foster the development of equitable and inclusive political and economic spaces. - When possible Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL will be used to enable the enfranchisement of the incarcerated into the daily activities of our communities. - By using Software, Hardware and Products Issued under the BCL you recognize the Preciousness of all with special attention to the hungry, the homeless and the oppressed. - By using Software, Hardware and Products Issued under the BCL you recognize that reparations and atonement are a part of a needed community healing process. - By using Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL you recognize the Preciousness of the earth. - By using Software, Hardware and Products Issued under the BCL you recognize the humanity of the incarcerated. - By using Software, Hardware and Products Issued under the BCL you recognize that Housing, Food,Health Care and Education are Human Rights that should be provide to all.
**Usage Restrictions**
- Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL cannot be used for any violent purpose. - Software or Hardware issued under the BCL License cannot be used for surveillance of any kind. - Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL cannot be used for War. - Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL cannot be used to support Military activities. - Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL cannot be used to inflict violence upon the Earth. - Software or Hardware issued under the BCL License cannot be be used by institutions of incarceration. - Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL cannot be used to support the activities of Institutions of Incarceration. - The Douglass Community does not support judicial and legal systems that enforce corporal punishment, or retributive justice.
As a first measure disputes concerning the terms of the BCL will be adjudicated through a community driven Non-violent communication process.
# Timbuktu Timbuktu is the Douglass communities marketplace that is aligned with the [Beloved Community Pledge](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/douglass-community-pledge) and the[ Beloved Community License](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/the-douglass-community-license). ## [![market-green.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-08/scaled-1680-/74efv0jFUcgykDug-market-green.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-08/74efv0jFUcgykDug-market-green.jpg) ## **Welcome to Timbuktu!** Timbuktu is the Douglass Communities marketplace that is aligned with the Beloved Community Pledge and Beloved Community License. Timbuktu is named after the Western African trade capital. Through the Timbuktu market, users can sell and purchase a wide variety of specialty goods and merchandise. The primary area of focus is green-friendly and ethically aware merchandise, as well as healthy & natural edibles and body care products. A large focus point for Timbuktu is fostering a sense of togetherness and community co-ownership. This is intended to be a sharp contrast to existing online marketplace models such as Amazon, that tend to enable price gauging from sellers, and remain cold and impersonal with no real connection to community. Unlike Amazon, At Timbuktu there are no high monthly fees for sellers, nor fifteen percent transaction fees. Users moving from Amazon to the Timbuktu platform will notice a drastic difference in terms of both what they can expect from Timbuktu, and in what Timbuktu expects from it’s users. Just as prospective users have higher standards for Timbuktu, Timbuktu holds it’s members to the Douglass Community standards. At Timbuktu sellers pay five dollars per month with a ten percent transaction fee. Because "We are all in this together" Upon launch, part of Timbuktu's revenue will be shared with FreedomTrain Community Asset Fund. Hamer members are also poised to benefit from FreedomTrain related loyalty programs. Since Timbuktu cares more about ethical behavior from both users and itself, price gauging, item misrepresentation, buyer/seller canceling and the like will be much more closely watched and moderated. The Douglass Community Asset Fund will facilitate projects that are supported by the Community and that aligned with the Beloved Community Pledge and Beloved Community License. These projects could range from saving the tropical rain-forests, to disaster relief efforts, or developing green-friendly technology. Douglass approved Freedom Train initiatives might also include helping out impoverished neighborhoods and towns, supporting local food drives, or helping out a particular charity. The sky is the limit here, but really it’s all up to the community, because we’re all in this together. Concerned users need not worry about the asset pool being used to fund some unnamed billionaire’s fourth private jet, though. Timbuktu doesn’t do that sort of thing. Douglass Community Economics recognizes, that people are interdependent with one another and with Nature, so each person’s well-being is measured by how well everyone and the environment are functioning with the goal of minimizing suffering for people and the planet. A communities well-being is measured by the aggregation of the well-being of all residents and the health of the ecosystem. Douglass Community Economics strives for a holistic optimal outcome and evaluates a policy by how much it minimizes suffering. By reducing the suffering of people living impoverished and bleak lives, we improve the well-being of everyone. Douglass Community Economics takes into consideration the protection of the environment, the state of the human spirit, and the quality of life of all people. Timbuktu strives to adhere to these principles at every turn, and makes every effort to enable a better community embodying these values. Leading by example, Timbuktu’s more conscientious stance on both seller and buyer behavior lets it promote a system with better user satisfaction. The hard line on ethics lets it promote better employee treatment and a more attractive prospect for long term career options. A drastic improvement over less savory options such as Amazon, which have been known to have concerning employee working conditions in the past, and a lack of concern with transaction abuses committed through their site. Members of the Hamer Community will have the ability to propose and vote on Freedom Train Initiatives. Freedom Train Initiatives must be centered in: Mutuality, Good Intention and Peace, Love and Purpose. All approved Freedom Train initiatives will be funded by the Douglass Community Asset Fund. All approved Freedom Train Initiatives will be developed by the Freedom Train’s core development team or Freedom Train cooperatives. A major goal for Timbuktu’s quest to better the world around us is to help our users see and feel the results of their contributions. To that end, we encourage member involvement in deciding the direction for what FreedomTrain initiatives will be prioritized with the Community Asset Fund. We also encourage users to check in on the list of ongoing or completed FreedomTrain initiatives. As more and more of these goals are completed with funding provided by Timbuktu, users can look forward to watching strong growth and expansion from Freedom Train. **[Timbuktu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu)** is named in honor of the Ancient Western African trade capital & storehouse of knowledge. # Ida [![ida_c0972b0b-14b0-4051-b146-eaa74883ccbb_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/NdBUwykvW8FrZWmt-ida-c0972b0b-14b0-4051-b146-eaa74883ccbb-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/NdBUwykvW8FrZWmt-ida-c0972b0b-14b0-4051-b146-eaa74883ccbb-480x480.jpg) #### The ida:// peer to peer protocol The ida:// peer to peer protocol is named in honor of **[Ida B. Wells ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells)** **[![ida_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/A8YF2qC7urdTsK1c-ida-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/A8YF2qC7urdTsK1c-ida-480x480.jpg)** **[Ida B. Wells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells) was an African American teacher, journalist, civil rights pioneer and suffragist. Ida B. Wells was one of the founders of the NAACP. Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African American equality,Wells arguably became the most famous Black woman in America. ### **IDA** The Ida protocol provides decentralized distributed secure file hosting and sharing with dynamic versioning. When files are added to the Ida protocol and shared with anyone in the Douglass community all versions of the files are saved and are accessible to any member of the Douglass community that have been granted permission to access the files. With Ida and the Douglass Browser you can Build and host decentralized and pages and apps without an internet services provider. ## **Decentralized Mirroring** IDA is a decentralized protocol that designed to facilitate the exchange of pieces of a dataset into a network of peers. When a peer acquires it's first piece of data they can choose to become a partial mirror for the dataset. If a peer contacts them and needs a piece of data they have, they can choose to share it. This can happen simultaneously while the peer is still downloading the pieces of data they want from others. ## **Ida Features:** - Ida’s unique decentralized protocol gives communities the ability too: share, store, and distribute data where and when they want. - Ida is designed to be the storage layer for fast, scalable, and secure decentralized applications. - Ida is a decentralized filesystem that is designed to help you share files quickly and safely, directly from your computer. - You can share entire filesystems with others using a single 32-byte key (i.e. ida`://uwd13d...`) - With Ida files can be added or modified after a space is created, and peers can "watch" a drive for updates, meaning update notifications are dispatched to readers in realtime. - By default, users only download the portions of files they need, on demand. - With Ida you can easily stream media from friends. - Seeking is fast and easy and there is no buffering. - With Ida you can seek through a video and it will download only the portions of the video you're viewing, on-demand. - Ida is designed to help you share files quickly and safely, directly from your computer. - Ida comes with a secure transport protocol, making it easy to build fast and scalable decentralized applications. - Dataset/file distribution and sharing happens simultaneously while a peer is still downloading the pieces they want from other peers. - Ida reduces bandwidth costs as files and data become more popular, downloads are distributed across all available nodes. - By decentralizing storage and distribution, Ida also increases speeds by downloading from many peers at the same time. - Ida transfers files using state-of-the-art cryptography. Only users with your unique cryptographic key can access your files. Ida verifies the hashes of content on download, so malicious content cannot be added. - With Ida user privacy comes first. Services and Applications using the Ida Protocol have encrypted transfer, private data sharing, and content verification built-in. - Decentralized Network Privacy - Ida guarantees end-to-end encryption of all shared content. - When Ida sends data to a clusters of peers all of the data is synced within the clusters at the same time. Ida's distributed syncing allows for robust dynamic global archiving. - Ida uses distributed append-only registers to store dynamic version history. - Ida mirrors the state of a network peer and all of it's contents. - Ida automatically maintains and updates built in version history when files are added to the network. - Progressive Versioning - Ida enabled datasets can be synced in real time to multiple peers in the network. - The Ida protocols Decentralized Redundancy gives the ability to transfer large amounts of secure data at scale. - With Progressive Versioning, Ida guarantees that every node hosting Ida content has real time dynamically updated versions. # The Douglass OS ### **Douglass: Technology For Peace, Love, Purpose** **[![mlk-marching_480x480-1.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/liqFuQOJ4nG3ILZn-mlk-marching-480x480-1.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/liqFuQOJ4nG3ILZn-mlk-marching-480x480-1.jpg)** Douglass is Technology for intentional emancipatory futures. Douglass empowers: local and global communities, returns economic value, funds public goods, and creates the possibility for new models of **economics** and **governance** centered in the ideals of Martin Luther Kings “**[Beloved Community](https://thekingcenter.org/about-tkc/the-king-philosophy/)**”. ### The Douglass OS The Douglass OS is a **decentralized** Operating System and network with a new generation of applications, an integrated peer to peer protocol, cutting edge Artificial Intelligence, and “**FreedomTrain**” our **Beloved Community Economics** and Governance service that will put **communities in control** of their futures. [![Douglass-OS-Desktop_38016dc2-a5d8-4d94-9b7f-feb43d792504_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/e31g96zvCJxs4uMI-douglass-os-desktop-38016dc2-a5d8-4d94-9b7f-feb43d792504-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/e31g96zvCJxs4uMI-douglass-os-desktop-38016dc2-a5d8-4d94-9b7f-feb43d792504-480x480.jpg) ### **A New OS for Modern New Futures** Douglass is a next generation operating system aligned with the **Beloved Community License.** Douglass breaks down barriers between applications, and gives back privacy and data ownership to users. **Douglass comes with essential apps that protect your data.** Douglass is easy to use and keeps your data safe. ### **Douglass represents the first new computing architecture in 25 years.** The Douglass OS represents a paradigm shift - the next step from centralized to decentralized personal computing with: Native Artificial Intelligence, a **Peer to Peer protocol** and a Native **Decentralized Beloved Community Economics** and Governance Service. [![douglass-stack.001_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/VP5QW5WDWgfSa9KN-douglass-stack-001-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/VP5QW5WDWgfSa9KN-douglass-stack-001-480x480.jpg) ### **A network of completely decentralized devices** The Douglass OS powers an independent network of completely decentralized devices, a full suite of newly-architected software applications, and integration services to speed the adoption of the platform. [![douglass-eco.001_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/Qz0KRyAZ2pgXOTsS-douglass-eco-001-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/Qz0KRyAZ2pgXOTsS-douglass-eco-001-480x480.jpg)
The Douglass OS and Douglass applications work without any central servers, only you have access to your encrypted data.
Douglass apps run locally and exchange data directly using the ida:// peer to peer protocol without exposing it too intermediaries even when you work across devices and with others.
### **The Douglass OS brings a systemic advantage to those who work with it.**
- Own their data - Be confident in privacy and security - Generate income from the network - Participate in Community Empowerment - No storage or upload limits
Douglass stores information locally, so you can use as much space as you have for free.
### # Global Future of Work Job Board [![images_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/XIfynF8swSptYAyF-images-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/XIfynF8swSptYAyF-images-480x480.jpg) The Douglass Future of Work job board revolutionizes work, breaking it away from antiquated patriarchal structures that devalue community, care and inspiration. All work will be paid for at an equal rate no matter the geographical location of the job or that of the person(s) doing the work. This means that two people living in different geographic locations will be paid the exact same wage. For example, a person living in San Palo installing solar panels will be paid the exact same wage as a person living in Chicago installing solar panels. In aggregate, the principal aim of the Douglass Future of Work service is to decouple social progress from environmental breakdown. Even as communities become more empowered and prosperous, the sources of their labour and prosperity shift away from extraction and consumption and towards regeneration and other socially valuable activities. The gradual shifting of economic activity away from material production will also help pave the way to a **post-work** future ### Possible Douglass Jobs Board Work - Global **Douglass Green New** Deal Jobs - Social Care Work - Self Assigned Work - Self Guided Education - Artistic Work - Music Creation - Community Organizing - Community Activities - Feeding those in need - Sheltering those in need - Caring for Children - Caring for the sick - Caring for the Elderly - Community Cohesion Work - Continuing Education - Creative Endeavors - Work for the Community - Innovation for the Communities Benefit - Self Defined Goal Attainment To live in a world of **Douglass Community Economic** abundance means to live in a world of peace, love and purpose, where everyone is guaranteed free access to housing, food, clothing, sanitation, water, energy, healthcare, education, child and elder care, as well as means of communication and transportation, without exception. The steadfast material security of **Douglass Community Economics** is what allows people to ask “How can I help the suffering and oppressed?” rather than “How am I going to live?” # Douglass Electronic Currency “Douglass” is**[ New Modern Money](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/new-modern-money)**, that is based on **[Douglass Community Economics](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/beloved-community-economics)**. Douglass is designed to be easy to use, equitable and lightweight, with a focus on removing the negative externalities present in existing currencies. Douglass is fee-less, easy to use and inclusive. Douglass is Eco-friendly. No mining, printing or minting. Douglass is equitable sustainable digital money. ### **Douglass Initial Supply** **[![download_a6024bf0-1793-4845-844d-d8f2e2b574b7_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/AMI5oWVcn8nUfGpG-download-a6024bf0-1793-4845-844d-d8f2e2b574b7-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/AMI5oWVcn8nUfGpG-download-a6024bf0-1793-4845-844d-d8f2e2b574b7-480x480.jpg)** In the late twentieth century, economists tried to estimate the value of Earth’s freely provided services, but stumbled over the technical difficulties of doing so. The**[ Biosphere 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2)** project made it possible to construct “a more explicit ledger,” the ecologist **[John Avise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Avise)** wrote. All told, it had cost over $150 million to keep eight humans alive for two years. Avise pointed out, “if we were being charged, the total invoice for all Earths inhabitants, it would come to an astronomical three quintillion dollars for the current generation alone” **Douglass Community initiatives** that are aligned with the **Beloved Community License** and in support of : Life, Earth and Community will receive grants during the initial distribution phase. # The Greenwood Exchange **Greenwood** is named after the neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma that was home to “**Black Wall Street**”. Greenwood was one of the most prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the U.S. during the early 20th century. [![01_Greenwood-1076x588_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/8VTCiJenH66XwpLC-01-greenwood-1076x588-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/8VTCiJenH66XwpLC-01-greenwood-1076x588-480x480.jpg) #### A New Digital asset exchange that is: - **BCL**- Aligned - Built on the **FreedomTrain** - Providing Liquidity to the Douglass Community - Facilitating the Exchange of B**CL** aligned tokens - Bundling digital and real world assets into one security (**The Beloved Community Token**) - Delivering **asset ownership** to the Douglass Community - Distributing **Douglass Community Dividends** - Holds all Green New Deal Assets. # Douglass Community Bank The Douglass Community Bank is the point of distribution for the Douglass Communities native token "**[Douglass](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/douglass)**" The Douglass Community Bank is also the mechanism for distributing funding for Douglass' **[Universal Income](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/ui),** [**Douglass Public interest initiatives**,](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/douglass-change-focus) and **[Community Public interest initiatives](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/community-public-interest-initiatives)**. [![OAKTREES1_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/Zp8P2vh6wkXXvAN1-oaktrees1-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/Zp8P2vh6wkXXvAN1-oaktrees1-480x480.jpg) # New Modern Money If all money is a bet on the future, it is also a summoning of a future. **Douglass** Re-animates **Money** as a public utility. With **Douglass Community Economics**, money becomes emancipatory, abundant, and public in nature, and a shared creative informational protocol for enabling the construction of new modern political and economic spaces that are in service to: Life, Earth and Community. [![GettyImages-555166225-5957d0093df78c4eb608f7c1_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/OEAmU6Aq0B5Fqx3A-gettyimages-555166225-5957d0093df78c4eb608f7c1-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/OEAmU6Aq0B5Fqx3A-gettyimages-555166225-5957d0093df78c4eb608f7c1-480x480.jpg) Emancipatory money is the representation of a boundless reserve of public creativity and, public credit the uses of which are constrained only by the political economic imagination. With **Douglass Community Economics,** Emancipatory Money is not a scarce commodity that must be collected/taxed and recirculated by fiscal custodians, Emancipatory money is an indispensable, inexhaustible and inescapably public tool for organizing production and provisioning public social goods. # Douglass Community Tokens [![68317a4257e1501ace3a7d9aaa21e78c_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/WD6kONuS3DWNDuVF-68317a4257e1501ace3a7d9aaa21e78c-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/WD6kONuS3DWNDuVF-68317a4257e1501ace3a7d9aaa21e78c-480x480.jpg) ### **DCT** All Douglass members will receive a **Douglass Community Dividend.** Community Dividends will be distributed to all Douglass community members on a monthly basis in the form of (DCT) Douglass Community Tokens . DCT is the name of the **Douglass Community Asset Fund token.** DCT represents the value of all assets owned now and in the future by the Douglass community. Assets owned by the Douglass community can include: Property, Real World Infrastructure, Technology Infrastructure, Community Utilities, Digital Assets, BCL Aligned Tokens, and Revenue Shares in **Douglass Cooperatives,** and Corporate Assets via Cooperative change over. This grants the highest intrinsic value to Douglass Community Tokens by tying their value to real world assets, rather than based on hedged speculation. ### **New Possibilities** DCT will create a compound effect, at once pooling substantive collective investments into a decentralized network which distributes resources to all of sectors, driving the sustainable expansion of community-oriented assets in real world markets, and then distributing truly regenerative returns based on these assets back to Communities. Imagine the new life-cycle of economic community-sovereignty that emerges from this process, generating new community-sustaining local economies which are no longer tied to endless, unsustainable forms of dangerous debt-leveraged growth; but instead operate in parity with natural environments, embedded in the participation of millions of people, designed to meet actual local, ecological, social and material needs, and finally creating the foundations for new forms of real prosperity for Communities that can serve to regenerate the planet. # FreedomTrain # **No Blocks, No Chains** [![image-1669452068077.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-11/scaled-1680-/i4XhAnM1jdLpZq0R-image-1669452068077.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-11/i4XhAnM1jdLpZq0R-image-1669452068077.png) ### **A Community Empowerment Platform** **For the Benefit of All** ### [***Freedomtrain.earth***](https://docs.douglass.earth/freedomtrain.earth) > #### A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. > A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. > > #### - Martin Luther King ## **[![mlk-bw.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-11/scaled-1680-/EcCgIt7VJ81pJ7mZ-mlk-bw.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-11/EcCgIt7VJ81pJ7mZ-mlk-bw.jpg)** ## **Freedomtrain** #### *Members of the Underground Railroad often used specific terms, based on the metaphor of the rail way. The Railroad was often known as the "freedom train” which headed towards "Heaven" or "the Promised Land"* #### ### **FreedomTrain** is a multifaceted “[Douglass](https://docs.douglass.earth)” initiative that combines the creation and acquisition of digital and real world assets, bottom-up Cooperative governance models, and blockchain technology to provide “all” with essential goods and services for free or at the lowest possible cost. [![image-1669452786203.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-11/scaled-1680-/0LDhi4gWwe2fM4ul-image-1669452786203.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-11/0LDhi4gWwe2fM4ul-image-1669452786203.png) ## **FreedomTrain Framework** ### FreedomTrain represents a new informational-economic infrastructure for regenerative asset creation and sustainable development. ### FreedomTrain seizes upon the singular social, economic and ecological opportunity of our time; the transition from an extractive economic and governance space to a non-extractive Cooperatively owned economic and governance space aligned with Peace, Love and Purpose. ### The FreedomTrain Community Empowerment Platform is explicitly designed to facilitate the acquisition, creation and funding of civic and public goods that are aligned with an understanding of Mutuality and the practice of Peace, Love and Purpose. ### Layered on top of the FreedomTrain Community Empowerment Platform is a comprehensive grouping of tools and processes that support Cooperative Communities in the FreedomTrain network as they lead, innovate, organize and communicate . ### FreedomTrain represents a potent alternative to both Impact investing and philanthropy, neither of which are capable of creating the social, economic, political and ecological solutions at the scale that is required now. ### FreedomTrain’s whole systems design approach enhances the ability to see complex scenarios as they arise anywhere in the world, all with local, regional, national and global implications. ### FreedomTrain uses this form of design to turn complex ecological and socioeconomic issues into opportunities to regenerate and transform the earth and local communities at scale. ### FreedomTrain represents a vehicle for funding the creation and acquisition of digital and real world assets as well as local and global infrastructure opportunities based on actual public needs, where value is derived not from speculation, but from improvements that are designed to regenerate the earth and communities at scale from the ground up. ### FreedomTrain is an adaptive Community Empowerment Platform for creating, redistributing, and structuring real assets in the form of natural resources, public utilities and Cooperatively owned businesses, and technologies. # Douglass Devices ### **Douglass OS Runs on any Laptop** Douglass is developing an Operating System that can be installed on any laptop. Laptops running the Douglass Operating System will act as as nodes in the Douglass decentralized network. [![policy.001_de20aea5-6f94-4889-96ce-62fa5598631b_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/ZgYjy4iA7lF9qjcT-policy-001-de20aea5-6f94-4889-96ce-62fa5598631b-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/ZgYjy4iA7lF9qjcT-policy-001-de20aea5-6f94-4889-96ce-62fa5598631b-480x480.jpg) ### Douglass Devices Douglass will manufacture green sustainable Decentralized laptops and servers that are specifically made and manufactured to be secure and to protect the privacy of the end user. ### Douglass Server Douglass decentralized servers and laptops will be designed and manufactured in Oakland, California. Also included with the server is a suite of impactful services that are easy to adopt and use. The Douglass Decentralized server will be available in the Fall of 2023 [![images-1_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/e2EJgZDgn5q6xWvA-images-1-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/e2EJgZDgn5q6xWvA-images-1-480x480.jpg) ### Douglass Eco Friendly Laptop Douglass Decentralized Eco Friendly Laptop the first truly environmentally-friendly laptop. We have focused on both what the laptop is made from, and how it is made, in order to reduce energy consumption, encourage re-use and eliminate waste. Douglass Eco Friendly Decentralized Laptops will be available in the Fall of 2023. [![lap1_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/C43RFUuLUH96OkbM-lap1-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/C43RFUuLUH96OkbM-lap1-480x480.jpg) # Douglass Edge Computing ## **Empowering Community Value Generation** **[![unnamed_26cef11e-bb25-48d4-a8d4-8c368bdd1397_480x480-1.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/aX9cFRqsbAdpVaxi-unnamed-26cef11e-bb25-48d4-a8d4-8c368bdd1397-480x480-1.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/aX9cFRqsbAdpVaxi-unnamed-26cef11e-bb25-48d4-a8d4-8c368bdd1397-480x480-1.jpg)** With Douglass and ida:// communities replace entrenched monopolies with the ability to provide infinite amounts of storage and compute power that is aligned with the BCL. Global Communities receive revenue and value that will be used to fund the essentials of life as well as Community initiatives. For the first time in technology history Douglass gives communities the ability to replace extractive technology companies with Community based compute and storage that is aligned with Peace, Love and Purpose. ## **EDGE Computing at Scale** At Douglass we believe that Computing is entering a major disruption cycle, which will be based on software defined networks, software-defined Compute and software-defined Storage for Community, Personal or BCL aligned organizational use. Douglass has developed a platform, designed to give BCL aligned communities and organizations the ability to manage their own data without giving this data away to third party SaaS companies. Data not services should be the first class citizens on the Web. BCL aligned communities and organizations understand this, and Data Governance is at the core of BCL aligned organizations. On the Web and mobiles we still build applications that hoard data. From this, the idea of data sharing between applications arises. With Douglass and ida:// we can now build apps in a way that all data belongs not to the app or website owner, but to the community and the user. ## **IDA** ida:// is a new decentralized architecture and protocol that is aligned with the BCL and centered in Peace Love and Purpose. ida:// enables decentralized community EDGE computing services that benefits communities as well as BCL aligned companies and organizations. Douglass and ida:// can be deployed locally, removing dependencies on third party ISP's and Amazon. ## **ida:// is the solution for the Decentralized Cloud** Douglass is the first platform that effortlessly enables large-scale EDGE computing. This will open new revenue channels for Global Communities whose value can’t even be assessed at present, including emerging IoT and distributed Community owned AI. [![douglass_IBM.001_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/YfzaDJoNIhEh6KEC-douglass-ibm-001-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/YfzaDJoNIhEh6KEC-douglass-ibm-001-480x480.jpg) ## **ida:// and the Blockchain** **[![douglass_IBM_2.001_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/A6yjh5lmz9fgJEK0-douglass-ibm-2-001-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/A6yjh5lmz9fgJEK0-douglass-ibm-2-001-480x480.jpg)** ## **Douglass and ida:// disrupt Oracle, Amazon/AWS, Google, Apple, and others** **[![douglass-summary-will-smith.001_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/TQr4rVihUqTqedZR-douglass-summary-will-smith-001-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/TQr4rVihUqTqedZR-douglass-summary-will-smith-001-480x480.jpg)** The Douglass OS and it’s Decentralized network will disrupt entrenched business models, giving companies a welcome alternative that is more secure, resilient, and scalable, while at the same time reducing operational costs. ## **Douglass makes the cable box obsolete** **[![douglass-summary-will-smith.001_5a7feec0-71db-4738-b709-d04b34c16c77_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/VIOqFY5W9hPDb2TH-douglass-summary-will-smith-001-5a7feec0-71db-4738-b709-d04b34c16c77-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/VIOqFY5W9hPDb2TH-douglass-summary-will-smith-001-5a7feec0-71db-4738-b709-d04b34c16c77-480x480.jpg)** The Douglass OS natively include the ability to deliver content across the decentralized network. This gives consumers access to entertainment content and at the same time it replaces current content distribution architecture with Decentralized storage and distribution. ## **What do BCL aligned organizations gain from using ida:// at the high level?** - **Data Sovereignty -** The ability to offer Data Locality / Residency / Sovereignty for private-first offline-first Decentralized applications, with functionality and convenience similar to and surpassing the centralized, Google-style apps. - **Data Continuum -** The Ability to build apps that work in the ida:// cloud \*\*and\*\* on local PCs and mobiles. Many cloud-native systems only work in the Cloud, which limits their scope of use, and this makes them extremely difficult for developers to debug and test, leading to a huge loss in productivity. AWS is notoriously difficult in that respect. - **Rethinking AWS from a Decentralized first-principles** The core idea of the[ ida:// ](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/ida)cloud is to give communities, individuals, and BCL aligned organizations access to Infrastructure and Platform levels of services (IaaS and PaaS), which can only be afforded by large organizations.With Douglass and[ ida://](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/ida) Direct infrastructure ownership provides the level of isolation, security and privacy that most closely resembles a decentralized operating systems. - **Undo and redo -** With [ida:// ](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/ida)any type of data, document, database, or files can support undo / redo. - **Data Durability -** [ida://](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/ida) has built-in capabilities for data replication. This can be used to replicate files and databases in community based [ida://](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/ida) clouds. This provides durability of data, with the resilience to hardware failures. - **Data Integrity, Digital Signatures and Compliance -** [ida://](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/ida) protects all data items from unauthorized modifications and assures that the original data is intact. - **Recovery -[ ](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/ida)**[ida://](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/ida) uniquely works for both files and databases. [ida://](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/ida) provides point-in-time restore from any past versions of the data state. This simulates both the DynamoDB point-in-time backup / restore and S3 object versioning. This capability can also be used as snapshots, as it allows the ability to checkout the store, tagged at a particular version. This may be used for devops and for development. - **Offline-first, local-first -**With [ida://](https://info.douglass.earth/pages/ida) All data is available when offline. Messages and media (of any size) are delivered from mobiles to server and back with full reliability, in the presence of intermittent or rare connectivity. ## **Douglass Community Edge CDN** ida:// can be used to build Community based Edge CDN's for distributing files to the edge, and distributing load between the replicas. It is static storage friendly. Files and databases can be served from static storage, as in CDNs. Additionally, due to ida's:// BitTorrent-like functionality, it improves CDN capabilities in the following ways: 1\. Saves CDN bandwidth costs by bandwidth sharing, turning media watchers into up-loaders 2\. Accelerates download as it allows load chunks from multiple peers simultaneously. This is especially important for 4K, VR and 3D printing content. 3\. Real-time incremental CDN updates. Many CDNs take significant time to replace old files. And many require the full flush of current files. ida:// can help optimize both with immediate updates and Change Management events. # Metatron # The End of Scarcity [![Metatron-new030821.001_600x600.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/h0CrS8Jj2howwpf9-metatron-new030821-001-600x600.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/h0CrS8Jj2howwpf9-metatron-new030821-001-600x600.jpg) # Douglass Enterprise [![policy.001_235b22d6-8c2c-4663-be89-079908f8187b_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/IsSiyl0fhKH1KMR4-policy-001-235b22d6-8c2c-4663-be89-079908f8187b-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/IsSiyl0fhKH1KMR4-policy-001-235b22d6-8c2c-4663-be89-079908f8187b-480x480.jpg) Douglass also represents an opportunity to replace the existing, entrenched enterprise applications that will not integrate with the technical architecture, legal, and policy needs of people using a decentralized network. These applications enable the necessary phase shift and represent a significant opportunity for a range of organizations, both private and public. ### **Douglass Lowers Operations Cost** With Douglass, network processing power and community install base are one and the same. This takes risk out of managing and maintaining large-scale server farms. [![douglass_google_2017-10-24_sharing_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/bLan91RvqQY0Z4rK-douglass-google-2017-10-24-sharing-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/bLan91RvqQY0Z4rK-douglass-google-2017-10-24-sharing-480x480.jpg) ### **Douglass Edge Computing** The Douglass Enterprise EDGE network will disrupt entrenched enterprise solutions, giving companies a welcome alternative that is more secure, resilient, and scalable, while at the same time reducing operational costs. Douglass is the first platform that effortlessly enables large-scale EDGE computing. This will open new revenue channels for cities and communities whose value can’t even be assessed at present, including emerging IoT and distributed Community owned AI. When companies use Douglass for cloud computing, cloud storage, or blockchain transactions, that activity happens across the whole network. Douglass redistribute this revenue to communities and individuals. ### **Corporate Social Responsibility & Giving**
Companies can direct income to communities in need by designating them to receive special revenue share from Douglass as a result of payments for that company’s cloud storage and computing on the decentralized network.
### **Douglass CDN ** Douglass can be used to build CDN's for distributing files to the edge, and distributing loads between the replicas. Douglass is static storage friendly. Files and databases can be served from static storage, as in CDNs. Douglass' BitTorrent-like functionality gives Douglass CDN's the following advantages.
1. Saves bandwidth costs by bandwidth sharing, turning media watchers into uploaders 2. Accelerates download as it allows to load chunks from multiple peers simultaneously. This is especially important for 4K, VR and 3D printing content. 3. Real-time incremental CDN updates. Many CDNs take significant time to replace old files. And many require the full flush of current files. Douglass can help optimize both with immediate updates and Change Management events.
### Douglass makes the cable box obsolete The **Douglass OS** natively include the ability to deliver content across the decentralized network. This gives consumers access to entertainment content and at the same time it replaces current content distribution architecture with Decentralized storage and bandwidth. [![gettyimages-531696291-1578351760_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/lbpzbzTPgC5Zpsmz-gettyimages-531696291-1578351760-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/lbpzbzTPgC5Zpsmz-gettyimages-531696291-1578351760-480x480.jpg) ### Decentralization Disrupts Video and Audio Streaming Douglass dramatically lowers the cost of hosting and streaming Audio and Video. [![policy.001_94b85aa5-a98f-454e-b564-2e82011f0b68_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/jaytDm9m9wNXrrh2-policy-001-94b85aa5-a98f-454e-b564-2e82011f0b68-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/jaytDm9m9wNXrrh2-policy-001-94b85aa5-a98f-454e-b564-2e82011f0b68-480x480.jpg) #### Douglass Enterprise Sectors Douglass and **ida** provide ready solutions to a large variety of sector applications. [![policy.001_38f71a13-55e0-484e-8e18-0e1887becb20_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/Gfh9HGXigQgb9m97-policy-001-38f71a13-55e0-484e-8e18-0e1887becb20-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/Gfh9HGXigQgb9m97-policy-001-38f71a13-55e0-484e-8e18-0e1887becb20-480x480.jpg) ### **Health Care Data Management** Douglass is opening the door to a new era in medicine. Until healthcare data is owned by the patient, no progress can be made in transforming healthcare. [![policy.001_74cf3184-b41d-4c97-bc4f-a0b94057ac74_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/OQNAhmUkzY6wnO6M-policy-001-74cf3184-b41d-4c97-bc4f-a0b94057ac74-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/OQNAhmUkzY6wnO6M-policy-001-74cf3184-b41d-4c97-bc4f-a0b94057ac74-480x480.jpg) ### **The BCL brings change to Companies and Organizations** The **BCL** sets the stage for a new relationship of technology and business to society. Douglass and the **BCL** are symbols for actively moving towards Emancipatory Freedoms for all. **Outside In:** Communities demand that the businesses and organizations they engage with are aligned with the **BCL**. Communities pledge that they work with **BCL** compliant companies, when available. **Inside Out:** Companies begin to use and distribute the **Douglass OS** in myriad ways because doing brings meaning to the people who work there. [![policy.001_21e0c60a-28cf-47f1-99f2-7d0a4c929e1c_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/CjWteBlvz5i6eIDR-policy-001-21e0c60a-28cf-47f1-99f2-7d0a4c929e1c-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/CjWteBlvz5i6eIDR-policy-001-21e0c60a-28cf-47f1-99f2-7d0a4c929e1c-480x480.jpg) # Douglass Desktop ### A New Desktop for a Modern New Future Douglass breathes new life into a Desktop Architecture and User Interface that has remained static and unchanged for the last 30 years. [![Douglass-OS-Desktop3_a8630af6-22ba-435d-9a10-3df53a6574b2_480x480.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/RCAm7siCrEnhbv3D-douglass-os-desktop3-a8630af6-22ba-435d-9a10-3df53a6574b2-480x480.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/RCAm7siCrEnhbv3D-douglass-os-desktop3-a8630af6-22ba-435d-9a10-3df53a6574b2-480x480.jpg) [![Douglass-OS-Desktop_38016dc2-a5d8-4d94-9b7f-feb43d792504_480x480-1.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/qTynLrIVpW2zRCwp-douglass-os-desktop-38016dc2-a5d8-4d94-9b7f-feb43d792504-480x480-1.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/qTynLrIVpW2zRCwp-douglass-os-desktop-38016dc2-a5d8-4d94-9b7f-feb43d792504-480x480-1.jpg) ### Douglass Adaptive A.I. Powered Desktop Douglass has developed a New Adaptive AI-Assisted Desktop. The Douglass Desktop is a transformative approach to how we do our work on machines. More closely matching how we work as humans. ### A New Layer of Computing Douglass has introduced a new layer of computing to the Desktop. The Douglass Desktop is designed to make Labeling, accessing and discovery of relevant information trivial. This new layer of desktop computing drastically reduces switching time between apps and spaces, making getting back into task peaceful and pleasant. With the Douglass OS computing power is now strong enough to power an adaptive UI layer that can access any data that crosses your screen. ### Douglass Desktop introduces 3 New Types of Interaction ### **Contextual** [![context_480x480.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/qlIvqzJx7wE0e0Qo-context-480x480.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/qlIvqzJx7wE0e0Qo-context-480x480.png) - Creating/loading/freezing Spaces - Tagging & annotating across all applications - Less noise - more speed - Less “cognitive leakage” - Pick up where you left ### **Neural** **[![neural_480x480.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/Ak1IhazNlucvfh3L-neural-480x480.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/Ak1IhazNlucvfh3L-neural-480x480.png)** - **Meaningfully connected to a bigger picture** - **The Douglass Desktop learns “what” you are doing and working on.** - **The Douglass Desktop can assist and automate task.** ### **Temporal** **[![temp_480x480.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/whUokkrkqFlPcuyh-temp-480x480.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/whUokkrkqFlPcuyh-temp-480x480.png)** - Rewind, review, recover - Never lose a thought - Share and elevate your creative process - Correctly assess yourself (time, attention, distraction) ### Create self-contained workspaces Create spaces for different use cases e.g. a project at work, community projects or your coding work with Douglass Spaces. Douglass spaces give you the ability to switch between your specific arrangement of applications and browser windows with ease, without having to keep any of the unused applications running in the background. Think of Douglass Spaces as self-contained workspaces where you can organize your desktop content. [![spaces_dbe7762d-8833-4eff-aed5-c342fc1178c1_480x480.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/iUAKIEtyXUpKQ0vH-spaces-dbe7762d-8833-4eff-aed5-c342fc1178c1-480x480.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/iUAKIEtyXUpKQ0vH-spaces-dbe7762d-8833-4eff-aed5-c342fc1178c1-480x480.png) ### **Access anything that ever crossed your screen** The Douglas Search Bar allows you to instantly access any application, browser tab, document or content group by typing a relevant keyword into the Douglass Search Bar. All content that crossed your screen can be accessed this way, whether it is currently open and or has been saved or not. Think of the Douglass Search bar as your navigation center for your Douglass desktop. You can open any document, web page, app, and much more. [![spaces_480x480.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/ekhT0LxK5NKaPLkS-spaces-480x480.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/ekhT0LxK5NKaPLkS-spaces-480x480.png) ### Tag anything anywhere Smart tagging lets you keep track of what’s important – whether it’s a web page, an email, or a PDF, tag it to find and share things faster than ever. It gets even better, meta detects a wide range of important interactions and allows you to create custom highlights, making revisiting moments that matter easy and intuitive. [![tags_480x480.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/r5jiluFR08zD8F7I-tags-480x480.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/r5jiluFR08zD8F7I-tags-480x480.png) ### Replay any moment of your desktop activity Any moment that ever crossed your screen, can be replayed like a video. Watch how you edited a photo, fixed code, or played a game. Douglass Rewind allows you to not just replay but also recall anything that’s ever come across your desktop. This means you can revisit a browsing session, conversation, or project and open it as if you never left. Every detail is restored. [![rewind_480x480.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/QhChYPs6Cykq7KWa-rewind-480x480.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/QhChYPs6Cykq7KWa-rewind-480x480.png) # Douglass Search [![new-search_5807f279-4a0a-4d09-bdc4-8666694b2f1d_480x480.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/scaled-1680-/xgfBGTfXK0JDaFVj-new-search-5807f279-4a0a-4d09-bdc4-8666694b2f1d-480x480.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-06/xgfBGTfXK0JDaFVj-new-search-5807f279-4a0a-4d09-bdc4-8666694b2f1d-480x480.png) Douglass Search is a privacy first non tracking search engine that includes a new cutting edge interface that gives users an easy and intuitive way to navigate and sort search results. - No user tracking - No user profiling - Cookies are not used by default - Secure, encrypted connections (HTTPS/SSL) # Timbuktu Terms of Service # [![market-green.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-08/scaled-1680-/90iLaiJz9Lq92VeW-market-green.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2022-08/90iLaiJz9Lq92VeW-market-green.jpg) Welcome to Timbuktu ! By signing up for a Timbuktu Account or by using any Timbuktu Services you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions. You must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained or expressly referenced in these Terms of Service before you may sign up for a Timbuktu Account or use any Timbuktu Service. ## **The Important Stuff First** Timbuktu is a Community Market Place that is being Developed by [Douglass](https://docs.douglass.earth/). Douglass builds and designs Intentional Products, and Technologies for: Peace, Love and Purpose. Timbuktu is aligned with the [Beloved Community Pledge](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/douglass-community-pledge) and the [Beloved Community License](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/the-douglass-community-license). By creating an account on Timbuktu you agree that you are aligned with the [Beloved Community Pledge](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/douglass-community-pledge) and the [Beloved Community License](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/the-douglass-community-license). ### **The Beloved Community Pledge** - I recognize the humanity of the multitudes that are oppressed, persecuted, incarcerated, and in struggle. - I declare that violence, poverty, racism, sexism, incarceration, surveillance, militarism and environmental destruction cannot persist. - I recognize that reparations and atonement are part of a needed community healing process. - I recognize that Housing, Food, Health Care and Education are Human Rights that will be provide to all. - I pursue a world of Peace, Love, Purpose and abundance for all. - I make change through nonviolence and radical love for all and for our sacred planet. - I commit to the inspired change needed to create a more humanely just and coherent future. - I commit to becoming aware of those forces that seek to undermine the Beloved Community. - Whenever possible I will use (and create) technology that is aligned with Peace, Love and Purpose. ### **Beloved Community License** This Beloved Community License has been created for: Peace, Love, and Purpose. **The Beloved Community License (BCL)** The BCL is a Non Violent Software, Hardware and Product License that has been created for: Peace, Love and Purpose. The BCL is based on an understanding and recognition of: Martin Luther King’s “Beloved Community”, and a Social Activism that pursues a future of Peace, Love and Purpose for all. **Recognition and Possibilities** - When possible Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL will be used to improve the lives of the Multitudes of the World that are oppressed and in struggle. - When possible Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL will be used to foster the development of equitable and inclusive political and economic spaces. - When possible Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL will be used to enable the enfranchisement of the incarcerated into the daily activities of our communities. - By using Software, Hardware and Products Issued under the BCL you recognize the Preciousness of all with special attention to the hungry, the homeless and the oppressed. - By using Software, Hardware and Products Issued under the BCL you recognize that reparations and atonement are a part of a needed community healing process. - By using Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL you recognize the Preciousness of the earth. - By using Software, Hardware and Products Issued under the BCL you recognize the humanity of the incarcerated. - By using Software, Hardware and Products Issued under the BCL you recognize that Housing, Food,Health Care and Education are Human Rights that should be provide to all. **Usage Restrictions** - Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL cannot be used for any violent purpose. - Software, Hardware and Product isssued under the BCL License cannot be used for surveillance of any kind. - Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL cannot be used for War. - Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL cannot be used to support Military activities. - Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL cannot be used to inflict violence upon the Earth. - Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL License cannot be be used by institutions of incarceration. - Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL cannot be used to support the activities of Institutions of Incarceration. - Software, Hardware and Products issued under the BCL License cannot be sub licensed. The Douglass Community does not support judicial and legal systems that enforce corporal punishment, or retributive justice. As a first measure disputes concerning the terms of the BCL will be adjudicated through a community driven Non-violent communication process. ## **Timbuktu Acceptable Use Policy** Timbuktu is a Community Market that is aligned with Beloved Community Pledge and the Beloved Community License. Timbuktu is a shared asset of the Douglass Community that is aligned with Peace, Love and Purpose. Timbuktu provides the tools and technology for merchants aligned with the Community products and service in the Timbuktu marketplace. While we believe the free and open exchange of ideas and products is a key tenet of commerce, there are some activities that are incompatible with Timbuktu and Douglass core mission and values. This Acceptable Use Policy describes activities that are prohibited in connection with your use of the Services. ### **The following activities are prohibited:** 1. **Child exploitation**: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload Materials that exploit or abuse children, including but not limited to images or depictions of child abuse or sexual abuse, or that present children in a sexual manner. 2. **Harassment, bullying, defamation and threats**: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload Materials, that harass, bully, defame or threaten a specific individual. 3. **Hateful content**: You may not use the Services to promote or condone hate or violence against people based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, medical condition, veteran status or other forms of discriminatory intolerance. You may not use the Services to promote or support organizations, platforms or people that: (i) promote or condone such hate; or (ii) threaten or condone violence to further a cause. 4. **Illegal activities**: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload Materials, that contravene or that facilitate or promote activities that contravene, the laws of the jurisdictions in which you operate or do business. 5. **Intellectual property**: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload Materials, that infringe on the copyright or trademarks of others. 6. **Malicious and deceptive practices**: You may not use the Services to transmit malware or host phishing pages. You may not perform activities or upload or distribute Materials that harm or disrupt the operation of the Services or other infrastructure of Timbuktu or others, including Timbuktu’s third party providers. You may not use the Services for deceptive commercial practices or any other illegal or deceptive activities. 7. **Personal, confidential, and protected health information**: You may not post or upload any Materials that contain personally identifiable information, sensitive personal information, or confidential information, such as credit card numbers, confidential national ID numbers, or account passwords unless you have consent from the person to whom the information belongs or who is otherwise authorized to provide such consent. You may not use the Services to collect, store, or process any protected health information subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), any applicable health privacy regulation or any other applicable law governing the processing, use, or disclosure of protected health information. 8. ### **Restricted Items**: 1. Because Timbuktu is centered in Peace, Love and Purpose; you may not offer goods or services that are violent or that re-enforce violence. 2. Because Timbuktu is centered in Peace, Love and Purpose; you may not offer goods or services that are not aligned with the Beloved Community Pledge or the Beloved Community License. 3. Because Timbuktu is centered in Peace, Love and Purpose; you may not offer goods or services that support or re-enforce the global prison industrial complex. 4. Because Timbuktu is centered in Peace, Love and Purpose; you may not offer goods or services that support or re-enforce the global militarily industrial complex. 5. Because Timbuktu is centered in Peace, Love and Purpose; you may not offer goods or services, or post or upload Materials, that promote self-harm. 9. **Terrorist organizations**: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload Materials, that imply or promote support or funding of, or membership in, a terrorist organization. We may, at any time and without notice, remove any Materials, and suspend or terminate your Account or your access to the Services if you engage in activities that violate the letter or spirit of this Acceptable Use Policy, including activities outside of your use of the Services. Our determination of whether a violation of our Acceptable Use Policy has occurred will be final and binding, and any action taken with respect to enforcing this Acceptable Use Policy, including taking no action at all, will be at our sole discretion. ### **Account Terms** 1. To access and use the Services, you must register for a Timbuktu account (“**Account**”). To complete your Account registration, you must provide us with your full legal name, business address, phone number, a valid email address, a link to your Hamer.Earth profile page and any other information indicated as required. Timbuktu may reject your application for an Account, or cancel an existing Account, for any reason, at our sole discretion. 2. You must be the older of: (i) 18 years, or (ii) at least the age of majority in the jurisdiction where you reside and from which you use the Services to open an Account. 3. You confirm that you are receiving any Services provided by Timbuktu for the purposes of carrying on a business activity and not for any personal, household or family purpose. 4. You acknowledge that Timbuktu will use the email address you provide on opening an Account or as updated by you from time to time as the primary method for communication with you (“**Primary Email Address**”). You must monitor the Primary Email Address you provide to Timbuktu and your Primary Email Address must be capable of both sending and receiving messages. Your email communications with Timbuktu can only be authenticated if they come from your Primary Email Address. 5. You are responsible for keeping your password secure. Timbuktu cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to maintain the security of your Account and password. 6. You agree not to access the Services or monitor any material or information from the Services using any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means. ### **Account Activation** 1. the person signing up for the Service by opening an Account will be the contracting party (“**Store Owner** ”) for the purposes of our Terms of Service and will be the person who is authorized to use any corresponding Account we may provide to the Store Owner in connection with the Service. You are responsible for ensuring that the name of the Store Owner (including the legal name of the company that owns the Store, if applicable) is clearly visible on the Store’s website. 2. If you are signing up for the Services on behalf of your employer, your employer will be the Store Owner. If you are signing up for the Services on behalf of your employer, then you must use your employer-issued email address and you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind your employer to our Terms of Service. 3. Your Timbuktu Store can only be associated with one Store Owner. A Store Owner may have multiple Timbuktu Stores. ### **Your Responsibilities** 1. You acknowledge and agree to provide public-facing contact information, a refund policy and order fulfillment timelines on your Timbuktu Store. 2. You are solely responsible for the goods or services that you may sell through the Services (including description, price, fees, tax that you calculate, defects, required legal disclosures, regulatory compliance, offers or promotional content), including compliance with any applicable laws or regulations. 3. You may not use the Timbuktu Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws), the laws applicable to you in your customer’s jurisdiction. You will comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations (including but not limited to obtaining and complying with the requirements of any license or permit that may be necessary to operate your store or that may be held by you) in your use of the Service and your performance of obligations under the Terms of Service. ### **Payment of Fees and Taxes** 1. You will pay the Fees applicable to your subscription to Online Service and/or POS Services (“**Subscription Fees**”) and any other applicable fees. 2. You must keep a valid payment method on file with us to pay for all incurred and recurring Fees. Timbuktu will charge applicable Fees to any valid payment method that you authorize (“**Authorized Payment Method**”), and will continue to charge the Authorized Payment Method for applicable Fees until the Services are terminated, and any and all outstanding Fees have been paid in full. Unless otherwise indicated, all Fees and other charges are in U.S. dollars, and all payments will be in U.S. currency. 3. Subscription Fees are paid in advance and will be billed in 30 day intervals (each such date, a “**Billing Date**”). Transaction Fees and Additional Fees will be charged from time to time at Timbuktu’s discretion. You will be charged on each Billing Date for all outstanding Fees that have not previously been charged. Fees will appear on an invoice, which will be sent to the Store Owner via the Primary Email Address provided. As well, an invoice will appear on the Account page of your Store’s administrative console. Users have approximately two weeks to bring up and settle any issues with the billing of Subscription Fees. ### **Limitation of Liability and Indemnification** 1. You expressly understand and agree that, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, Timbuktu and its suppliers will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses arising out of or relating to the use of or inability to use the Service or these Terms of Service (however arising, including negligence). 2. You agree to indemnify and hold us and (as applicable) our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, Timbuktu partners, officers, directors, agents, employees, and suppliers harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of (a) your breach of these Terms of Service or the documents it incorporates by reference (including the AUP); (b) or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party; or (c) any aspect of the transaction between you and your Customer, including but not limited to refunds, fraudulent transactions, alleged or actual violation of applicable laws (including but not limited to Federal and State consumer protection laws), or your breach of the Terms of Service. 3. You will be responsible for any breach of the Terms of Service by your affiliates, agents or subcontractors and will be liable as if it were your own breach. 4. Your use of the Services is at your sole risk. The Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any warranty or condition, express, implied or statutory. 5. Timbuktu does not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free. 6. Timbuktu does not warrant that the results that may be obtained from the use of the Services will be accurate or reliable. 7. Timbuktu is not responsible for any of your tax obligations or liabilities related to the use of Shopify’s Services. 8. Timbuktu does not warrant that the quality of any products, services, information, or other materials purchased or obtained by you through the Services will meet your expectations, or that any errors in the Services will be corrected. ### **Intellectual Property and Your Materials** 1. We do not claim ownership of the Materials you provide to Timbuktu; however, we do require a license to those Materials. You grant Timbuktu a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to host, use, distribute, expose, modify, run, copy, store, publicly perform, communicate to the public (including by telecommunication), broadcast, reproduce, make available, display, and translate, and create derivative works of any Materials provided by you in connection with the Services. We may use our rights under this license to operate, provide, and promote the Services and to perform our obligations and exercise our rights under the Terms of Service. You represent, warrant, and agree that you have all necessary rights in the Materials to grant this license. You irrevocably waive any and all moral rights you may have in the Materials in favour of Timbuktu and agree that this waiver may be invoked by anyone who obtains rights in the materials through Timbuktu, including anyone to whom Timbuktu may transfer or grant (including by way of license or sublicense) any rights in the Materials. 2. If you owned the Materials before providing them to Timbuktu then, despite uploading them to your Timbuktu Store they remain yours, subject to any rights or licenses granted in the Terms of Service or elsewhere. You can remove your Timbuktu Store at any time by deleting your Account. Removing your Timbuktu Store does not terminate any rights or licenses granted to the Materials that Shopify requires to exercise any rights or perform any obligations that arose during the Term. 3. You agree that Timbuktu can, at any time, review and delete any or all of the Materials submitted to the Services, although Timbuktu is not obligated to do so. 4. You grant Timbuktu a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to use the names, trademarks, service marks and logos associated with your Store (“**Your Trademarks**”) to operate, provide, and promote the Services and to perform our obligations and exercise our rights under the Terms of Service. This license will survive any termination of the Terms of Service solely to the extent that Timbuktu requires the license to exercise any rights or perform any obligations that arose during the Term. ### **Term and Termination** 1. The term of these Terms of Service will begin on the date of your completed registration for use of a Service and continue until terminated by us or by you, as provided below (the “**Term**”). 2. You may cancel your Account and terminate the Terms of Service at any time by contacting Timbuktu Support and following the specific instructions indicated to you in Timbuktu’s response. 3. Without limiting any other remedies, we may suspend or terminate your Account or the Terms of Service for any reason, without notice and at any time (unless otherwise required by law), including if we suspect that you (by conviction, settlement, insurance or escrow investigation, or otherwise) have engaged in fraudulent activity in connection with the use of the Services. Termination of the Terms of Service will be without prejudice to any rights or obligations which arose prior to the date of termination. ### **Modifications** 1. We reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to update or change any portion of the Terms of Service at any time. We will provide you with reasonable advance notice of changes to the Terms of Service that materially adversely affect your use of the Services or your rights under the Terms of Service by sending an email to the Primary Email Address, providing notice through the Timbuktu administrative console, or by similar means. However, Timbuktu may make changes that materially adversely affect your use of the Services or your rights under the Terms of Service at any time and with immediate effect (i) for legal, regulatory, fraud and abuse prevention, or security reasons; or (ii) to restrict products or activities that we deem unsafe, inappropriate, or offensive. Unless we indicate otherwise in our notice (if applicable), any changes to the Terms of Service will be effective immediately upon posting of such updated terms at this location. Your continued access to or use of the Services after we provide such notice, if applicable, or after we post such updated terms, constitutes your acceptance of the changes and consent to be bound by the Terms of Service as amended. If you do not agree to the amended Terms of Service, you must stop accessing and using the Services. 2. Timbuktu may change the Fees for the Services from time-to-time. We will provide you with 30 days advanced notice prior to any changes in Fees by sending an email to the Primary Email Account, providing notice through the Timbuktu administrative console, or by similar means. Timbuktu will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, price change, suspension or discontinuance of the Services (or any part thereof). # Timbuktu Privacy Policy #### Our values Trust is the foundation of the Timbuktu platform and includes trusting us to do the right thing with your information. Three main values guide us as we develop our products and services. These values should help you better understand how we think about your information and privacy. - **Your information belongs to you** We carefully analyze what types of information we need to provide our services, and we try to limit the information we collect to only what we really need. Where possible, we delete or anonymize this information when we no longer need it. When building and improving our products, our engineers work closely with our privacy and security teams to build with privacy in mind. In all of this work our guiding principle is that your information belongs to you, and we aim to only use your information to your benefit. - **We protect your information from others** If a third party requests your personal information, we will refuse to share it unless you give us permission or we are legally required. When we are legally required to share your personal information, we will tell you in advance, unless we are legally forbidden. - **We help merchants and partners meet their privacy obligations** Many of the merchants and partners using Timbuktu do not have the benefit of a dedicated privacy team, and it is important to us to help them meet their privacy obligations. To do this, we try to build our products and services so they can easily be used in a privacy-friendly way. # Why we process your information We generally process your information when we need to do so to fulfill a contractual obligation (for example, to process your subscription payments to use the Timbuktu Community Market), or where we or someone we work with needs to use your personal information for a reason related to their business (for example, to provide you with a service). European law calls these reasons “legitimate interests.” These “legitimate interests” include: - preventing risk and fraud - answering questions or providing other types of support - helping merchants find and use apps through our app store - providing and improving our products and services - providing reporting and analytics - testing out features or additional services - assisting with marketing, advertising, or other communications We only process personal information for these “legitimate interests” after considering the potential risks to your privacy—for example, by providing clear transparency into our privacy practices, offering you control over your personal information where appropriate, limiting the information we keep, limiting what we do with your information, who we send your information to, how long we keep your information, or the technical measures we use to protect your information. # How we protect your information Our teams work tirelessly to protect your information, and to ensure the security and integrity of our platform. We also have independent auditors assess the security of our data storage and systems that process financial information. However, we all know that no method of transmission over the Internet, and method of electronic storage, can be 100% secure. This means we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information. # Rosa #### Collaboration and Communication for: Peace, Love and Purpose [**Rosa**](https://rosa.earth) is a Collaboration and Communications platform that is powered by [Douglass. ](https://docs.douglass.earth)Rosa is named in honor of [Rosa Parks.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks) When using Rosa be mindful that you are in alignment with [Douglass Community Guidelines ](https://docs.douglass.eahttps//docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/douglass-community-guidelines)and the [Beloved Community Pledge](https://docs.douglass.earth/books/douglass/page/douglass-community-pledge) [![Rosaparks.jpg](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2023-02/scaled-1680-/qL7HY1xUPhBvPAqv-rosaparks.jpg)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2023-02/qL7HY1xUPhBvPAqv-rosaparks.jpg) Rosa is named in honor of "[Rosa Parks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks)". On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of going to the back of the bus, which was designated for African Americans, she sat in the front. When the bus started to fill up with white passengers, the bus driver asked Parks to move. She refused. Her resistance set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Douglass builds and designs Intentional Products, and Technologies for: Peace, Love and Purpose. All Douglass products are aligned with Douglass Community Economics, Douglass Community Policy, The Beloved Community Pledge and The Beloved Community License. [![Screenshot 2023-02-25 at 2.33.13 AM.png](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2023-02/scaled-1680-/F2mpjgNWqIikTBCK-screenshot-2023-02-25-at-2-33-13-am.png)](https://docs.douglass.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2023-02/F2mpjgNWqIikTBCK-screenshot-2023-02-25-at-2-33-13-am.png)