No civic technological literacy infrastructure for adults

UK digital-skills provision teaches consumption (using apps, spotting scams) and the schools pipeline is getting AI literacy from 2028, but no institution teaches adults comprehension of the systems they are governed by: what end-to-end encryption actually guarantees, what a verifiable record is, how age verification and digital ID architectures differ in what they expose, what self-custody means. Result: public debates on the Online Safety Act, digital ID and CBDC proceed with citizens unable to evaluate claims, and communities cannot maintain infrastructure they do not understand. Digital-inclusion charities (Good Things Foundation) target basic access; nobody owns civic comprehension.

'If people do not understand the technology, they cannot trust it', and if a community wishes to survive attack 'it will need members who understand its foundational technologies in addition to its foundational values.' Every other sovereignty gap on this map has adoption blocked by this one.

A civic technology literacy programme: open curriculum (encryption, verification, identity architectures, custody), train-the-trainer delivery through libraries, unions, faith groups and community organisations, and a UK network of community technologists, modelled on citizens-advice reach rather than university outreach.

// Build now: First artefact: open civic-technology curriculum plus train-the-trainer pack; libraries, unions, community groups deliver voluntarily, no gatekeeper.

Digital-ID, Online Safety Act and CBDC debates proceed with citizens unable to evaluate claims, yet nobody owns adult civic comprehension and no delivery instrument yet exists.