Eight services · One commons
The UBEC Ecosystem
Eight interconnected services form the UBEC Commons bioregional protocol network. Each service is a whole and a part — Christopher Alexander's principle of nested centers expressed as living digital infrastructure.
The technical backbone. Sensor observations, steward authentication, activity streams, and token reward logic all flow through here. Every other service depends on the Hub.
→The unified entry point. Mission, philosophy, and the origin story of a commons built not by fighting the existing reality, but by building a new model.
→The economic backbone. Four-element token system (UBEC, UBECrc, UBECgpi, UBECtt) live on the Stellar network. DAO governance and reciprocity rewards for steward contributions.
→Place-based intelligence. Bioregional GIS powered by Mapbender, visualising watershed health, Living Lab locations, and proxemic data zones aligned with Hall's spatial theory.
→Distributed citizen science network. Stewards submit phenomenological observations — including the 13 Questions to the Soil — through senseBox IoT devices and the Hub API.
→The physical anchor of the commons. A regenerative farm and citizen science site in Müllrose, Brandenburg — rooted in the Schlaubetal watershed. Crowdfunding active.
→Open Educational Resources structured as a genuine Pattern Language — each resource names a problem, describes a solution, and links to patterns above and below it in scale. CC BY-SA 4.0.
→Open-source repositories, SDK documentation, and contribution guides. All platform code licensed GNU AGPL v3.0 to prevent commercial enclosure of the commons.
→Service relationships
Data flows through the Hub
The Hub is the technical backbone — all data flows route through it. The Protocol is the economic backbone — all token logic routes through it. No service is an island: the emergent behaviour of their interaction is the point. (Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics.)
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." — Buckminster Fuller
A commons, not a platform
UBEC is not a startup, not a crypto project, and not a SaaS platform. It is a Web 4.0 commons — read, write, own, and participate. Physical sensors feed real-time data into digital governance. AI is a visible participant. Regenerative by design.
Each of the eight services is both a whole and a part — Christopher Alexander's principle of nested centers. The holonic architecture means every node bears its own load while contributing to the structural integrity of the whole.
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