technical continuity beyond the creator
National Council for Technological Continuity
The aim is for Candeia to survive technically beyond its creator. When the Founding Architect’s personal exception ends, the permanent technical powers do not pass to family, a company or an individual successor: they pass to the collegiate Council provided for by the Constitution.
Pre-Foundation · permanent institution not installedConstitutional Proposal · reference text · not promulgated
Why it exists
Code, documentation, contingency keys, recovery environments and operational knowledge cannot remain permanently locked to a single person or provider. The Council is the structure provided to assume that continuity collegiately.
How it prevents dependence on one person or provider
Preserve continuity, recovery, auditability and succession of Candeia’s technological architecture, preventing essential system functions from permanently depending on a person, family or provider.
Documentation, testing, audit, custody and succession preparation. Multi-party authorisations and strictly defined interim action. After the definitive cessation of the Founding Architect’s personal office, assume final technical authority collegiately within constitutional limits.
7 members, all subject to a public merit/conflict process: 2 elected by the Assembly by a three-fifths majority; 1 appointed by the President; 1 by the Constitutional Court; 1 by the Court of Audit; 1 by the Data Protection and Digital Rights Authority; and 1 by the Ombudsman.
No authority, family, private entity, provider or economic group may control a majority. The Council elects a Coordinating President for two years, without immediate re-election and without a casting vote.
A single, non-renewable, staggered seven-year term.
Functional autonomy, its own technical staff, lawful access to information and strong rules against family, proprietary or provider capture.
A sufficient budget included in the CCME and capacity to commission independent expert examination; selective cuts intended to constrain technical decisions are prohibited.
Only for exhaustively specified serious grounds, by decision of at least 6 of the 9 members of the Constitutional Court after duly authorised charges and clear and convincing evidence.
Collegiate quorums, recusals, audit, external expertise in deadlocks, and Constitutional Court review of procedure without allowing the Court to choose architecture or provider.
National Technical Continuity Plan, architecture records, risk assessments, structural decisions, tests, certifications, and recovery and succession documentation.
It has no political, monetary, electoral, judicial, registry or proprietary power; participation in custody or recovery does not transfer sovereignty to an individual member.
What it maintains in practice
- Documentation, testing, audit, custody and succession preparation.
- Multi-party authorisations and strictly defined interim action.
- After the definitive cessation of the Founding Architect’s personal office, assume final technical authority collegiately within constitutional limits.
Technical continuity is not political power
The Council receives no political, monetary, electoral, judicial, registry or proprietary power. Custody, recovery and technical evolution remain limited by the competences of the other institutions.
Relationship with the Founding Architect
During the regular exercise of the possible personal office, the Council does not replace ordinary architectural authority: it documents continuity, audits, tests recovery, prepares succession and exercises only the authorisations or interim functions constitutionally provided for. Upon definitive cessation, the logic changes: the Council automatically begins to exercise final technical authority collegiately, without turning its Coordinating President, any member, heir or provider into the Founder’s personal successor.