A living dictionary for the playbook.

1. 1The AT Protocol, used here so certificates can live as signed, portable records rather than inside one platform database.
2. 2A portability layer: the platform can change without erasing the community's record.

1. 1The principle that data should not lose its caretakers, source context, consent terms, or correction pathways as it moves through digital systems.

1. 1A low-cost open-source acoustic recorder used to capture forest soundscapes during field deployments.
2. 2In this playbook, the sovereignty question is the protocol around the device: where it is placed, who reviews requests, who is paid, and how recordings can be withdrawn.

1. 1The concrete return the source community recognises as valuable: money, infrastructure, access, training, governance power, repair, or another named outcome.

1. 1GainForest's ecological impact certificate: a structured record of who made an impact, what claim is being made, and what evidence supports it.
2. 2A Bumicert should carry its boundary context with the claim, so attribution and agency travel with the evidence.

1. 1The what of a Bumicert: what was done, where, when, and under what conditions.
2. 2A claim becomes stronger when its evidence and consent boundaries travel with it.

1. 1Design authority shared with the people represented by a system before decisions harden.
2. 2A sovereignty mechanism: community authority is present while questions, sources, labels, tests, refusal paths, and retirement conditions are still being shaped.

1. 1A legible, accountable set of rules for an AI agent, written so a community can inspect and amend it.
2. 2It should state what the agent does by default and what it does when a user asks it to break a rule.

1. 1A plain statement of what may be used, for what purpose, under whose review, with what benefit, and with what right to revise, reject, or withdraw.
2. 2The practical inversion of scrape first, ask later.

Usage: Most useful before collection or modelling begins.

1. 1A GainForest model in which a community data council sets the price and rules for ecological data, such as a per-minute price for bioacoustic recordings.

1. 1The governing prompt or rule-set that defines what an assistant may and may not do.
2. 2In the Taina lesson, sovereignty comes from who writes, approves, audits, and revises the constitution.

1. 1A named way to challenge, amend, or repair an output, label, dataset, or rule.
2. 2Correction keeps the system in relationship instead of freezing the first version of a community in place.

1. 1The ongoing work of collecting, naming, reviewing, correcting, resting, and sometimes refusing data.
2. 2Cultivation keeps the people and places represented by the data inside the governance loop.

1. 1A community's authority over its own language, knowledge, cultural memory, and public representation.
2. 2It asks who gets to decide what a story, place, or word means in digital form.

1. 1The people entrusted to set policy, pricing, ownership rules, review pathways, and refusal conditions for community data.
2. 2In the Data Council lesson, governance becomes a standing body with a mandate, representatives, and a review rhythm.

1. 1A frame that treats data as something to extract, refine elsewhere, aggregate at scale, and sell downstream.
2. 2The pattern this playbook teaches readers to notice and interrupt.

1. 1A cultivation frame for data: data has context, seasons, meaning, caretakers, and limits.
2. 2The phrase asks who tends the data, who can correct it, what should be planted, and when a dataset should rest or be withdrawn.

1. 1A decentralised identifier: a stable identifier that points to the actor controlling a record.
2. 2In a Bumicert, the DID helps answer the identity question: who is making or signing this claim?

1. 1The proof that supports a claim: photos, recordings, attestations, measurements, or other material.
2. 2Evidence is never cost-free; someone collected, checked, and contextualised it.

1. 1The right of Indigenous peoples and communities to govern data about them, their lands, languages, knowledge, and relations.
2. 2In this playbook, it includes participation, inspection, correction, withdrawal, and refusal.

1. 1A design approach where important data and core functions remain usable close to the people and places they come from, even before syncing to outside services.
2. 2For AI, this can mean small models, local indexes, offline-first workflows, or self-hosted tools when sensitive data should not leave community control.

1. 1A single, geometrically corrected aerial image stitched from many overlapping drone photos so distances and areas can be measured directly on it.
2. 2In the Drone mapping lesson, the orthomosaic is the community's own base map, kept locally and compared against future flights.

1. 1Personal Data Server: the server that holds a community or person's ATProto records.
2. 2The important point is portability: records can move with the community instead of staying trapped in an app database.

1. 1The rule that a dataset may be allowed for one use and refused for another.
2. 2Naming purpose clearly keeps consent from becoming a blank cheque for future model training or resale.

1. 1The right to decline a use, a question, a recording, a scraping request, or digitisation itself.
2. 2A sovereign workflow does not translate refusal into negotiation by default.

Usage: No is a complete answer.

1. 1The named human, council, or backup process that checks new requests to use a corpus.
2. 2Without a reviewer, boundaries are usually just prose that no one can enforce.

1. 1The principle that some knowledge should not enter an AI system.
2. 2Sovereignty includes the right to withhold, refuse, and stay outside the model; participation and representation are not the only good outcomes.

1. 1The common headings for a community agent code: language use, cultural protocols, sensitive knowledge, data access, correction pathways, and withdrawal.
2. 2Each pillar holds concrete rules that a community can inspect and change.

1. 1The idea that a system is not sovereign simply because it is national, local, or hosted nearby.
2. 2The test is whether the people represented can inspect, correct, reject, move away from, or retire it.

1. 1A crypto token designed to track a reference currency, such as USDC tracking the US dollar.
2. 2In conservation payments, a stablecoin is useful only if fees, cash-out access, internet, identity checks, and trust still leave more usable value with the recipient.

1. 1Responsibility for keeping data useful, truthful, bounded, and answerable to the source community.
2. 2A steward may maintain a dataset, but does not get to treat it as free raw material.

1. 1GainForest's co-designed regenerative intelligence assistant, governed by an Indigenous Data Council through a community-written constitution.
2. 2The lesson treats Taina as a working example of sovereign AI in practice.

1. 1The ability for communities to decide how their knowledge travels between languages, institutions, and cultures.
2. 2AI may assist translation, but should not force it or strip away agency.

1. 1The practical route to revise, reject, pull back, or retire a dataset or system.
2. 2A useful pathway names who can trigger it and what engineers or facilitators must do next.