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# Summary
The Hitchhiker's community aims to foster growth through a series of privacy respecting clubs, ensuring the protection of the conversations and works of its members. The community seeks to empower its members to openly share personal details and discuss sensitive topics such as politics and demographics, under the principle of confidentiality, which is central to the Hitchhiker ethos. This principle is instrumental in the creation of micro assemblies, small citizen groups that require detailed demographic information about its participants, facilitated through self-sovereign identity and zero knowledge proofs. The communication within these micro assemblies is intended to be private and sensitive yet can be shared and published using modern cryptography, which ensures anonymity and provable representation. The first tests of this principle will be conducted with various diaspora communities and the project's financial backers who may wish to remain anonymous but have their contributions provable. This concept of a private club is referred to as an unseen, adding an interesting facet to the Hitchhiker's community.
# Tidied Transcript
The idea is that the Hitchhiker's community will grow through what we can refer to as private or privacy-respecting clubs. One of the core principles of the Hitchhiker community is the ability to protect the privacy of the conversations that people have. This ensures that small group work can be conducted confidently and with respect for the details of the conversations taking place. This principle empowers individuals to converse more openly, sharing personal, emotional, political, and demographic information. This is particularly crucial as we aim to create micro assemblies or small citizen assemblies. These require extensive knowledge about participants' demographics such as age, gender, religion, personality type, cognitive type, and other details typically found on CVs. It is important to note that such information may not be something individuals are comfortable sharing publicly. Therefore, the use of self-sovereign identity, zero-knowledge proofs, and the capacity to have private conversations are integral to the Hitchhiker ethos. These small groups, or micro assemblies of 42 people, are not necessarily public by default. They are deliberative groups where sensitive conversations can take place. Yet, these groups can share and publish their information using modern cryptography, ensuring anonymity and provable representation, which is usually not possible without these techniques. One of the first tests of this concept will be with various diasporas we will be working with, such as the Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian diasporas, along with other sensitive communities. The investor's club, financial backers, and project founders, who may wish to remain anonymous but have their contributions proven, are also part of this test. We refer to this kind of private club as an "unseen", which adds an interesting aspect to the Hitchhiker's community.
# Keywords Hitchhiker's community, privacy respecting clubs, confidentiality, micro assemblies, demographics, self-sovereign identity, zero knowledge proofs, modern cryptography, anonymity, provable representation, diaspora communities, unseen
# Graph
digraph { layout=fdp; "Hitchhiker's community" -> "privacy respecting clubs"; "Hitchhiker's community" -> "unseen"; "privacy respecting clubs" -> "confidentiality"; "confidentiality" -> "micro assemblies"; "micro assemblies" -> "demographics"; "micro assemblies" -> "self-sovereign identity"; "self-sovereign identity" -> "zero knowledge proofs"; "zero knowledge proofs" -> "modern cryptography"; "modern cryptography" -> "anonymity"; "anonymity" -> "provable representation"; "provable representation" -> "diaspora communities"; "diaspora communities" -> "Hitchhiker's community"; }
# Assets
private-club
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