No civic technological literacy infrastructure for adults

UK digital-skills provision teaches consumption, using apps and spotting scams, and the schools pipeline gets AI literacy from 2028. 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. 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 target basic access, and nobody owns civic comprehension.

Technology people do not understand is technology they cannot meaningfully trust or challenge, and a community that wants to run its own infrastructure needs members who understand it. Adoption of every other sovereignty gap on this map is blocked by this one.

A civic technology literacy programme: an open curriculum covering encryption, verification, identity architectures and 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, and nobody owns adult civic comprehension or a delivery instrument.