Purpose. Stand up a living, exportable field lab that turns community truths into attested civic knowledge — capturing both positive bridge-building and ongoing pressures that are often missed or misrepresented by national media.
Steward. Jonathan Nelson — Fulbright scholar; Director of Risk Intelligence; founder/advocate across information integrity and youth digital wellbeing (e.g., CyberGuardians). This lab is a neutral patterns repo (no proprietary data), designed to be forked for other cities.
Initial lenses (seeded from our thread).
- L-001: Bridges in Atlanta. Lived experience vs. media narratives; how civil rights legacies plus new coalitions have shifted the city’s social graph in the past decade.
- L-002: Youth Digital Wellbeing. Practical signals and survey scaffolds that communities can run safely, informing policy without over-collection.
- L-003: Information Integrity. Lightweight methods to attest what’s true locally without centralizing control.
What “attestation” means here. Small, human-readable receipts of truth — who/what/when/why — with minimal cryptographic binding and no PII. Truth stays explainable, reversible, and boring to operate.
Start with docs/Vision.md, protocols/Community_Attestation.md, and lenses/Atlanta.md.