Social Resource FloorOpen blueprint · Digital public infrastructure
A floor beneath which no person should fall.
The Social Resource Floor is a blueprint for a universal structure through which people can access the resources needed for basic survival — grounded in being human, not in financial status.
The idea
Human survival should not depend on financial access.
Today, survival is largely financial: people generally need money, banking, employment, or purchasing power to obtain food, housing, energy, healthcare, and other necessities. This project explores a different starting point.
Access to basic survival resources should be grounded in being human, not in financial status.
This does not mean abolishing money, banking, markets, or the wider financial system. The aim is narrower and more fundamental: financial systems should not be the condition that determines whether a person can access the basic resources required to survive. Money becomes one possible resource or delivery method — not the organizing principle of survival.
What this is
- A blueprint and conceptual structure — definitions, relationships, and interfaces.
- An integration layer that sits above existing social-protection systems.
- A universal structure that stays locally defined and locally deployable.
- Open interfaces first, so any component can be replaced without lock-in.
What this is not
- Not, yet, a working universal social-resource infrastructure.
- Not a replacement for existing benefit-delivery platforms.
- Not an attempt to solve every political, legal, and governance question at once.
- Not a single mandatory product or vendor.
How it fits
A coordination layer, not a replacement.
The Floor is designed to work alongside existing digital public infrastructure — coordinating across providers and resource types through open APIs, events, and adapters, while each system keeps its own mission.
Current scope
Building the blueprint, carefully and in the open.
Define the concepts
Establish shared vocabulary for people, providers, resources, policies, and entitlements.
Map the relationships
Describe how needs, eligibility, entitlements, and delivery connect across providers.
Find the interfaces
Identify the minimum contracts two independent systems need to participate.
Name the open questions
Keep governance, funding, privacy, and authority as explicit questions, not assumptions.
Open to contribution
Help shape the structure.
This is early-stage, exploratory work — which is exactly when a clear idea and a few extra minds matter most. Whether your background is social protection, engineering, policy, or lived experience, there is a way in.