The platform is structured around commons, issues of social, environmental, economic nature, such as those included in this framework for reliable prosperity, treated as social objects: the nodes around which social networks are created, conversations and repeated interactions are initiated, new territories explored, meaning and intents shared, learning achieved.

People subscribe to individual issues then designate the actors who they think may have an influence -positive or negative-  on the status of an issue. This ‘appointment of actors’ by ‘citizen-followers’ creates a pull dynamic. Bringing together the parties susceptible of impacting progression on an issue and those to whom they are accountable will yield conversations, knowledge flow, and feedback loops beneficial to learning, progress visualization, and evaluation. The goal is to create a context favorable to collaboration, exchange of ideas and know-how. The pull dynamic is intended to stimulate political action and on-the-ground response, and ultimately advance the governance of the commons
 

The process consists in letting people/organizations:

• Select, follow, learn as a 'citizen' about the causes, issues, commons they care for and the actors involved
• Keep informed and track progress and status of these issues
• Self assign actor role and communicate/report on self-activity and impact and status of issue. Self assignment is a declaration of engagement at various possible levels (governance institution, activist, champion, observer, kow-how or knowledge resource)
• Share practical solutions, proposals for tasks and collaboration, volunteer for tasks and collaboration
• Find solutions and potential collaborators for action
• Select or refer designated actors to acknowledge or request their engagement and action at various levels (governance institution, activist, free rider, champion, observer, kow-how or knowledge resource ).
  
• As a selected or designated actor, participate in the conversation, report on activity and impact (or if not, become the object of the action...)
  
• As a citizen-follower evaluate and rate activity/impact of and trust toward actors' activity, impact and progress.
• As a citizen-follower organize for collective action
• As a an actor, garner follower participation
• Initiate and participate in conversations, debates, deliberations

The ecosystem is composed of:

• Common’s spaces: carefully curated knowledge base, space for learning, evaluating, debating, deliberating, and planning collective action, crowdsourcing solutions. This would include planetary as well as local commons or issues.
• Common’s graph: shows network of followers and stakeholders, possibilities for collaboration, critical mass, power structures and possible leverage points for grassroots action or civil participation.
• Progress & Impact or Situation Dashboard: shows activity, status, impact and progress. Informed by reporting from stakeholders and evaluations by followers, as well as real time indicators provided by independent observers.

Graph, space dashboards of various commons can be combined at various levels for bigger picture views.

The platform creates a context for the following:

• Curate the knowledge flow and increase learning about issues, and physical as well as political solutions through visibility of activity and impact
• Connect and interrelate people, stakeholders, issues, and knowledge.
• Help situate an issue in its physical, metaphysical, political and social space and its network of interdependence and navigate within.
• Define boundaries of an issue/common through its graph of followers and actors, and help define the natural levels of governance or stewardship of a common or issue.
• Help situate self and others in the multidimensionality of an issues’ space (geography, graph, stakes, interests, roles, positions, possibilities…) and navigate within.
• Identify roles and interdependence between actors and issues.
• Visualize the emergent bigger picture, and adopt systemic or transversal approaches.
• Communicate and discern expectations, communicate and evaluate outcomes, identify and act upon gaps
• Discern patterns of possibilities and leverage points, as well as who can generate best impact for specific challenges.
• Stimulate stepping up to task, collaboration between stakeholders and collective response.