Alliance
The Open Participation Alliance
The first domain-level partner initiative built on the Human Web architecture.
The short version
The Open Participation Alliance (OPA) is the first domain-level partner initiative built on the Human Web architecture. OPA's domain is human contribution and participation — volunteering, caring, civic engagement, mutual aid, community involvement, and the broader texture of wellbeing that current platforms don't see and don't serve.
OPA is also the first concrete demonstration that an economy organised around human flourishing is operationally possible. The wellbeing-economy movement has had clear philosophy and patchy operations for two decades. OPA is built to supply the operations, in a single domain, well enough that the case can be made.
OPA is not a new platform. It is not a new charity. It is not another policy framework. It is a partner initiative that will build — together, to shared standards, under independent governance — the trust, identity, and coordination infrastructure that lets participation be recognised, carried, and built upon across systems.
The founding pilot
The OPA founding pilot has four operational partners. Each does distinct work the others do not duplicate, covering the primary functions an agent ecosystem in the participation domain needs.
Lifted — the amplification and recognition function.
Helps volunteers turn their contribution into stories that can be shared, and routes reward to the charities they served.
Do IT — the discovery function.
The opportunity-side of the volunteering ecosystem; finds suitable opportunities for people, suitable people for organisations.
Team Kinetic — the verification and recognition function.
The participation-tracking system that becomes the trusted issuer of verifiable participation credentials.
Lifepass — the orchestrator function, providing the system through which the other partners' agents operate, and the user-side surface where users hold their identity, credentials, and history.
How to join — by type of organisation
OPA welcomes the following kinds of partners. Each engages in a different shape, on different terms.
Civic organisations, charities, community networks
Joining as early members, contributing operational knowledge, becoming participating products that issue verifiable contribution credentials.
Public bodies and government innovation units
Convening relevant parts of government, supporting the first pilot as a public-interest test, sponsoring access for a defined population, helping shape standards.
Standards bodies (ODI in particular)
Formal partnership on participation-domain standards.
Employers and forward-thinking corporates
Sponsoring access for a workforce in a model that respects employee sovereignty and gives only aggregate reporting.
Philanthropic funders
Supporting alliance infrastructure, sponsoring access for a target population, funding pilot work in an aligned domain.
Wellbeing-economy bodies
Engaging as advisors, participants in standards development, critical readers, members where appropriate.
Technology builders
Building to the entry conditions and certifying as a Human Web-compliant product.
Read the full Coalition Brief
The full OPA Coalition Brief sets out the alliance's commitments, current state, joining process, and exit terms.
Get in touch
If your organisation is considering OPA membership, the next step is a conversation.