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IllustrativeBlog: Why shared civic compute changes procurement
2026 · Updated 28 Jun 2026
A short Observatory-style blog on cooperatives that keep civic inference off a single vendor cloud.
Web-native sample commentary on the Selat cooperative. It argues that compute access is an ecosystem enabler, not a side issue, for organisations that cannot accept training-data lock-in.
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This sample is published on the Observatory site.
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Shared inference for civic models in the StraitsA cooperative offers metered public-interest compute so NGOs do not surrender training data to a single cloud.