Geography OS

NATIONAL

What is Ubuntu Town? Where are we? What are we building? What can we actually see?

50 BLUEPRINT TOWNS9 PROVINCES10 CANONICAL INITIATIVESDATABASE COVERAGE: 81 CANONICAL ROWS

The Blueprint cohort and the database rows are distinct designations and are never conflated. Founding-50 evidence exists (50 flagged rows — migration 20260707002039); roster ratification is pending.

Orientation — three distinct designations

Canonical blueprint

50 towns

The approved activation cohort. Membership evidence exists (Founding-50 names list); the ratified roster artifact is pending — shown honestly as such.

Canonical database

81 rows

The operational geography records. Not all database rows are Blueprint cohort members. Reconciliation lives in the governance tool.

Operational coverage

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

Staffed deployments, ownership and activity require protected operational records — RECORDS NOT ACCESSIBLE. Coverage is never inferred from geography.

Strategic geography — the Blueprint cohort

AUTHORED

50 BLUEPRINT TOWNS · 9 PROVINCES — The operating cohort is the Blueprint roster (blueprint-roster.json 1.1.0-ratified). Database coverage (81 canonical rows) is a different, non-strategic truth — never conflated.

Roster status: RATIFIED 2026-10-21 — owner decision recorded in ubuntu-town-web PR #45 (the 50-town Blueprint roster is THE approved operating cohort; is_founding flag remains non-authoritative, documented contradiction C-05).

Eastern Cape · 5 roster towns

East London · Gqeberha · KwaMaqoma · Matatiele · Mthatha

Free State · 8 roster towns

Bethlehem · Bloemfontein · Ficksburg · Harrismith · Ladybrand · Phuthaditjhaba · Senekal · Welkom

Gauteng · 8 roster towns

Johannesburg · Kempton Park · Pretoria · Randfontein · Soweto · Springs · Tembisa · Vanderbijlpark

KwaZulu-Natal · 7 roster towns

Durban · Greytown · Harding · Kokstad · Newcastle · Nquthu · Richards Bay

Limpopo · 5 roster towns

Burgersfort · Mokopane · Polokwane · Thohoyandou · Tzaneen

Mpumalanga · 5 roster towns

Acornhoek · Bushbuckridge · Emalahleni · Mbombela · Sabie

North West · 4 roster towns

Brits · Klerksdorp · Mahikeng · Rustenburg

Northern Cape · 4 roster towns

De Aar · Kimberley · Kuruman · Upington

Western Cape · 4 roster towns

Cape Town · George · Paarl · Worcester

Database coverage — 81 canonical rows (non-strategic)

COMPUTED

Free State

13 database rows

6 founding-flagged · 6 with field intelligence · 7 in launch/pilot record state

Eastern Cape

11 database rows

6 founding-flagged · 1 with field intelligence · 0 in launch/pilot record state

KwaZulu-Natal

11 database rows

6 founding-flagged · 0 with field intelligence · 4 in launch/pilot record state

Gauteng

10 database rows

5 founding-flagged · 1 with field intelligence · 3 in launch/pilot record state

North West

10 database rows

6 founding-flagged · 1 with field intelligence · 0 in launch/pilot record state

Limpopo

8 database rows

6 founding-flagged · 0 with field intelligence · 1 in launch/pilot record state

Mpumalanga

8 database rows

5 founding-flagged · 0 with field intelligence · 1 in launch/pilot record state

Northern Cape

5 database rows

5 founding-flagged · 0 with field intelligence · 0 in launch/pilot record state

Western Cape

5 database rows

5 founding-flagged · 0 with field intelligence · 0 in launch/pilot record state

National operating signals

The network is represented by 81 canonical database town rows across 9 provinces — the Blueprint cohort is 50 towns, a distinct designation.

COMPUTED

Why?

Evidence: uto.towns (live read) · Blueprint cohort law

Reasoning: Row count and province grouping computed from the canonical geography source.

Limitation: CANONICAL BLUEPRINT (50) ≠ CANONICAL DATABASE (81 rows) ≠ OPERATIONAL COVERAGE. The three are never conflated.

6 of the 10 canonical initiatives have a linked database record; 1 possible match is unresolved; 3 are database-absent; 2 database rows are portfolio-unreconciled.

COMPUTED

Why?

Evidence: public.initiatives (live read) · Canonical registry (Blueprint)

Reasoning: Registry reconciliation classification per the data law.

Limitation: This is a governance state, not a defect count. Human decision required (C-01).

PROPOSED — PENDING HUMAN APPROVAL: Ratify the portfolio reconciliation: resolve Daycare/DaycareOS and Ubuntu Socials/Buntu Bar, and decide the fate of the database-only rows.

50 canonical rows carry the is_founding flag, and 9 towns carry field-intelligence packs.

COMPUTED

Why?

Evidence: uto.towns.is_founding · field-intelligence packs (v1 exports)

Reasoning: Counts of flagged rows and available packs.

Limitation: The is_founding flag derives from the Founding-50 reconciliation migration — it is NOT the ratified Blueprint roster (roster RATIFIED 2026-10-21, v1.1.0-ratified).

Operational movement — activity, proof, people, economics — cannot be evaluated from geography and portfolio definition alone.

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

Why?

Limitation: Operational records are protected (RECORDS NOT ACCESSIBLE). No trend is manufactured.

MOMENTUM

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

no evidenced category input

CAPACITY

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

no evidenced category input

PROOF

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

no evidenced category input

ECONOMICS

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

no evidenced category input

Signal categories appear only when evidence supports them. Unsupported categories are shown honestly — never as flattering numbers.

What changed?

Last 90 days (geography): 23 canonical record(s) created · 30 updated.

COMPUTED

Operational change (new / improved / declined / stalled / resolved): CHANGE HISTORY NOT AVAILABLE — no comparable prior state exists for protected objects. Deltas are never manufactured.

National portfolio — the ten engines

AUTHORED

Portfolio reconciliation: 6 linked · 1 unresolved · 3 database-absent · 2 database-only rows

The catalog holds 12 rows against the canonical ten. DECIDED 2026-10-12: Job Fixer, Ubuntu Academy, EcoChar are REMOVED from the active portfolio (historical rows preserved — not deleted, not merged). Still open: Buntu Bar (possible relation to Ubuntu Socials, C-01) and the Ubuntu Town platform row. None is ever presented as an active canonical initiative.

Coverage & economics

People coverage

Town coordinator coverage, initiative leadership coverage and capability gaps require accessible role-assignment records — RECORDS NOT ACCESSIBLE. Coverage is never implied by town counts.

open People & Capability →

Economic view

GMV, revenue, cost, contribution and town operating result: NOT YET MEASURED at national level — no economic records are accessible and no values are manufactured from geography.

CHIEF OF STAFF

operating intelligence · National · pattern altitude

What is happening?

The network is represented by 81 canonical database town rows across 9 provinces — the Blueprint cohort is 50 towns, a distinct designation.

COMPUTED

Why?

Evidence: uto.towns (live read) · Blueprint cohort law

Reasoning: Row count and province grouping computed from the canonical geography source.

Limitation: CANONICAL BLUEPRINT (50) ≠ CANONICAL DATABASE (81 rows) ≠ OPERATIONAL COVERAGE. The three are never conflated.

6 of the 10 canonical initiatives have a linked database record; 1 possible match is unresolved; 3 are database-absent; 2 database rows are portfolio-unreconciled.

COMPUTED

Why?

Evidence: public.initiatives (live read) · Canonical registry (Blueprint)

Reasoning: Registry reconciliation classification per the data law.

Limitation: This is a governance state, not a defect count. Human decision required (C-01).

PROPOSED — PENDING HUMAN APPROVAL: Ratify the portfolio reconciliation: resolve Daycare/DaycareOS and Ubuntu Socials/Buntu Bar, and decide the fate of the database-only rows.

50 canonical rows carry the is_founding flag, and 9 towns carry field-intelligence packs.

COMPUTED

Why?

Evidence: uto.towns.is_founding · field-intelligence packs (v1 exports)

Reasoning: Counts of flagged rows and available packs.

Limitation: The is_founding flag derives from the Founding-50 reconciliation migration — it is NOT the ratified Blueprint roster (roster RATIFIED 2026-10-21, v1.1.0-ratified).

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