S2-PROV
Audience · sovereign
For sovereign organisations
For sovereign or state-adjacent organisations, the Evidence Economy sits underneath public legitimacy. Publishing discipline becomes a sovereignty question, not a marketing one.
Stance
Governance-first.
Sovereign or state-adjacent organisations have a different relationship to the Evidence Economy than commercial firms do. The stake is not competitive positioning. It is public legitimacy — the discipline with which the state's own record of its activity is published, attributed and made verifiable.[S2-PROV]
The Operator Gap in this context is unusually consequential: the distance between what a public body claims about its activity and what its documented delivery would say if asked separately becomes, over time, the distance between the organisation and its right to be trusted. Read the Operator Gap definition.
Discipline
Publishing discipline as sovereignty.
The Evidence Economy suggests a specific discipline for public bodies that want their record read on their own terms: publish attributed, dated, machine-readable records at stable URLs, in structured formats supported by open standards.[S2-JSONLD][S2-SDO] The alternative is to be quoted through intermediaries whose incentives are not the public's.
Sources cited on this page
Sources
S2-JSONLD
W3C JSON-LD 1.1
https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/S2-SDO