Sovereign Location

A conceptual and analytical body of work on how physical presence can be represented, proven, and adjudicated in digital society.

Sovereign Location is the idea that claims about where someone or something was should not depend entirely on surveillance architectures or blind trust in a single intermediary.

This site develops the concepts, frameworks, taxonomies, and design principles needed to think clearly about presence as a coordination primitive and about the systems that may be required to prove, adjudicate, and rely upon it.