{
  "how_to_use": [
    {
      "description": "Start with Observatoire, Modules, Governance, Mining, Universities and Threats. These pages explain the public doctrine, indicators, limitations and evidence discipline.",
      "step": "1",
      "title": "Read the public modules first"
    },
    {
      "description": "A red or high-risk signal is not a court judgment. It means the public-interest assurance layer has not yet seen enough demonstrated transparency, responsibility or compliance.",
      "step": "2",
      "title": "Separate signal from finding"
    },
    {
      "description": "Public work should rely on traceable, high-quality sources. A source used for theoretical, historical or empirical grounding is not automatically a member, partner, witness or participant.",
      "step": "3",
      "title": "Use sources responsibly"
    },
    {
      "description": "Do not expose witnesses, exact sensitive locations, private documents or identities on public pages. High-risk material belongs in protected workflows after human review.",
      "step": "4",
      "title": "Submit information safely"
    },
    {
      "description": "Entities and persons affected by a public assessment can provide corrections, evidence, responses or clarifications. The goal is public-interest accuracy, not rumor amplification.",
      "step": "5",
      "title": "Use right of reply and correction"
    }
  ],
  "join": {
    "default_rule": "Joining is confidential by default. Public visibility is optional and only appropriate when exposure creates no unnecessary risk.",
    "pathway": [
      "submit a short expression of interest",
      "state expertise, region and risk constraints",
      "complete vetting and conflict-of-interest review",
      "receive an access level: public, members-only, confidential or compartmented",
      "contribute only within the agreed protection and evidence rules"
    ],
    "profiles": [
      "researchers",
      "intelligence and security professionals",
      "psychologists and psychiatrists",
      "historians",
      "jurists",
      "cybersecurity specialists",
      "auditors",
      "journalists",
      "traditional authorities",
      "public-health experts",
      "land and resource specialists",
      "regional analysts",
      "diaspora experts"
    ]
  },
  "launch_readiness": {
    "high_impact_next_steps": [
      "Complete source anchors for the top 50 state, media and public-personality profiles.",
      "Attach DOI/ISBN/URL/video-transcript evidence packs to every high-risk profile before promotion from starter_profile to reviewed.",
      "Create regional editorial boards for Africa, Caribbean, Europe, North America, South America and Asia/Oceania.",
      "Publish a visible scoring methodology page with metric definitions, score bands, uncertainty classes and correction pathway.",
      "Add a public corrections page that accepts non-sensitive counter-evidence without exposing contributors.",
      "Add a media-orientation map: ownership, funding, editorial geography, African-source density, correction behavior and sovereignty impact.",
      "Add official letters inviting universities, public institutions, media houses and named public actors to provide corrections or evidence packs.",
      "Generate first public briefings: state-risk overview, media narrative-risk overview, university capability overview and secure-intake warning brief."
    ],
    "schema": "paso-launch-readiness-v1"
  },
  "method_sources_note": "The Observatory may cite books, peer-reviewed research, public reports, court material, journalism, archives, institutional publications and expert frameworks. Cited authors or institutions are not automatically involved, aware, affiliated or endorsing the project. Their works can provide theoretical, empirical, legal, historical or methodological grounding for an intelligent African architecture of protection and threat assessment.",
  "paso_intro": {
    "decentralized_model": "PASO does not require public exposure of contributors. Community intelligence, expert review and public-source work are decentralized, anonymized where needed, and verified through evidence chains rather than status, celebrity or pressure.",
    "humanity_clause": "PASO aims to help build a better humanity by increasing transparency, protecting populations and exposing patterns that undermine trust, endanger Africans, or weaken the ability of African peoples to shape their own future.",
    "political_assessment_rule": "Assessments of political figures, regimes, institutions and influence networks are community-driven, source-linked, reviewed and correction-capable. The goal is not entertainment, humiliation, factional propaganda or shielding harmful behavior. The goal is to make public risk intelligible, verifiable and correctable.",
    "public_disclaimer": "Public profiles are not declarations of legal guilt, secret affiliation, protected-source status, membership or endorsement. They are evidence-gated assessments of public output, public action, institutional role, source record and measurable impact. Corrections and counter-evidence can change records through review.",
    "schema": "paso-public-introduction-v1",
    "standards_use": "PASO uses standards, frameworks and public works based on their potential impact for African liberation, protection and progress. Where a framework, author, institution, archive, dataset, standard or method is used, the platform should give due credit and preserve source context.",
    "summary": "The Pan-African Sovereignty Observatory (PASO) is a decentralized public-interest hub spanning five continents. It is inspired by African values, especially Nsiku, Nzola and Bisalu: principled limits and accountability, protection of life and dignity, and concrete useful work that builds capacity.",
    "title": "PASO as a decentralized Pan-African protection and intelligence hub",
    "values": {
      "Bisalu": "Tangible outputs: institutions, publications, tools, jobs, infrastructure, laws, companies, public systems and local capabilities.",
      "Nsiku": "Rule, measure, limit, accountability, anti-capture boundaries and disciplined public method.",
      "Nzola": "Protection of people, dignity, health, education, social repair and refusal to fracture African communities for external advantage."
    }
  },
  "protection_doctrine": {
    "non_exposure_rule": "No public legitimacy requires naming protected members, confidential analysts, witnesses, sensitive sources, exact locations or private evidence chains.",
    "principles": [
      "public methods, protected contributors",
      "public evidence discipline, protected raw evidence where necessary",
      "sanitized dashboards, compartmented workflows",
      "high-quality sources as trust layer, not proof of affiliation",
      "right of reply without surrendering protected sources",
      "population protection before institutional vanity"
    ],
    "retaliation_risk": "Public-interest intelligence in captured or fragile environments can trigger retaliation, intimidation, legal pressure, reputational attack, digital targeting or physical danger. The platform must therefore inform the public while shielding protected contributors."
  },
  "publication_discipline": {
    "protected_sources": "Raw evidence, witness identity, exact sensitive locations and protected contributor details are not exposed in the public layer.",
    "red_rule": "Red does not mean final legal guilt. Red means insufficient demonstrated compliance, transparency, responsibility, or public-interest assurance.",
    "right_of_reply": "Right of reply, correction and documented update remain part of the publication discipline.",
    "schema": "cssp-public-disclaimer-v1",
    "separation_rule": "Accusations must be separated from evidence, analysis, recommendation, and confirmed finding."
  },
  "purpose": "Explain what the Observatory is for, how the public layer should be read, how contributors can join safely, and why protected membership is necessary in environments where retaliation, capture and suppression are real risks.",
  "schema": "cssp-platform-guide-v1",
  "title": "How to use the platform / Comment utiliser la plateforme",
  "what_it_is_for": {
    "summary": "CSSP Mfuma and the Pan-African Sovereignty Observatory organize public evidence, expert analysis and protected intelligence workflows so African populations, institutions, universities and communities can understand threats that states, regional bodies or captured authorities may fail to expose or mitigate.",
    "title": "Public-interest intelligence for protection",
    "uses": [
      "read sanitized dashboards and risk indicators",
      "understand governance, resource, university and threat modules",
      "submit public-interest signals without assuming automatic publication",
      "request correction, right of reply or methodological clarification",
      "support dossiers with high-quality public sources, empirical work and theoretical grounding",
      "build protection-oriented analysis for communities, journalists, researchers, institutions and the diaspora"
    ]
  }
}