Institutional Portability
Each city that adopts Alerta signs its own local constitution, compatible with this framework document and adapted to the specific conditions of its territory.
Portability operates under a defined protocol: the adopting city receives the framework document, discusses it in its own assemblies, proposes local amendments that do not contradict the founding principles, and ratifies the adapted document by concurrence of the three local chambers.
The principles contained in Articles I to III (anti-thesis, Waqf, Ayni) are immovable. The rest of the document admits local adaptation in its operational aspects: composition of the chambers, demurrage rates, parameters of the trust score, territorial scale, official language, modalities of the redemption floor.
The compatibility between local constitutions allows technical interoperability and the circulation of learnings between cities, without imposing cultural or operational uniformity.
Commentary
Alerta does not aspire to be a single platform operated from Lima for the rest of the continent. It aspires to be a common protocol sustained by sovereign local institutions. Portability inscribes that aspiration as a constitutional condition from the origin, before any other installations exist.
The distinction between the immovable principles (Articles I to III) and the rest of the document responds to a practical observation. The founding principles are the conditions that make Alerta recognizable as Alerta. Without them, an installation with the same name would operate as something else. The rest of the document codifies operational decisions that admit legitimate variation according to the particularities of each territory: the demurrage rate that works in Lima may not serve in Trujillo; the trust threshold appropriate for a Vigía in Iquitos may differ from that of a Vigía in Cusco.
Portability also protects against capture. A single operating entity for all installations of Alerta would concentrate institutional risks that the model seeks to avoid. A network of sovereign installations, articulated by a common protocol, distributes those risks and maintains the resilience of the whole.
Adoption protocol
A city interested in adopting Alerta follows a documented process:
- Expression of interest. A local group with sufficient institutional capacity expresses its interest to the protocol coordination team. The group must demonstrate minimum viability (territorial presence, technical capacity, institutional support).
- Territorial study. The local group conducts a study of its territory: demographics, civic context, potential Aliado networks, cultural and linguistic particularities.
- Adapted drafting. The group drafts its local constitution maintaining Articles I to III intact and adapting the rest in accordance with the studied particularities.
- Civic consultation. The draft is submitted to open civic consultation during a minimum period of six weeks.
- Constitution of local chambers. The three local chambers are constituted in accordance with the adapted Article IV.
- Ratification. The three local chambers ratify the adapted constitution.
- Technical integration. The local installation integrates with the common protocol while maintaining operational sovereignty.
What portability does not permit
Local adaptation does not authorize:
- Modification of Articles I to III.
- Elimination of the Waqf Corpus as backing mechanism.
- Renunciation of the civic safety protocol of Article V.
- Renunciation of tricameral governance, even when the exact composition of the chambers admits adaptation.
- Elimination of the traceability of operational truth (Article VI).
- Elimination of financial transparency (Article XII).
- Elimination of the right to dissent (Article XI).
Cross-references
- Articles I, II and III · Immovable principles
- Article IV · Tricameral governance admits compositional adaptation
- Article XIV · The dissolution of a local installation follows the same procedure