Announcing our first draft criteria for UBI Project selection

The main purpose of the Foundation is to ensure that collected tax funds are given back to the people. We do this by first finding, then evaluating the many UBI projects available. We select the best one(s), and once approved we distribute the collected funds to the selected program(s). From then on we continuously monitor that funds made it into the hands of recipients.

Before setting out on a search for the best candidates we wanted to establish a list of criteria against which we want UBI Projects to be evaluated.

We evaluate UBI Programs in two different categories: 1) Global UBI Programs, and 2) National UBI Programs. While most criteria apply to both categories, there are some criteria that differ between the two.

The following is our first draft list of criteria to use when evaluating UBI Programs:

Network Capability

Criteria	Global UBI Projects	National UBI Projects
Need to be run on a network capable of scaling with the exponential growth of users, should be able to scale into the Billions	Required	Required
​Need to run on a network with transaction fees that are cheap enough to be less than a fraction of the value of the distributed UBI itself	Required	Required
Need to run on a network fast enough to process UBI transactions in a timely fashion	Required	Required

User Eligibility

Criteria	Global UBI Projects	National UBI Projects
No income testing or other testing allowed, cannot distribute UBI only to the poor (or only to the needy, or any other limited subset)	Required	Required
Need to show effort to include the poorest and lowest classes in society over the already privileged. For example, figure out how to enable those without their own device or without internet access	Required	Required
Cost of entry should be zero or close to zero for new users (UBI recipients)	Required	Required
User’s location is known from geolocating, and/or users select one and only one country (and can’t change that selection too often)	Required	Required
Location is based on residency and/or actual position (not nationality or citizenship)	Required	Required
Need to ensure that users are indeed unique and alive humans. Required frequent and ongoing eligibility tests are: - Aliveness check - Uniqueness check, - Human check (Turing test)	Required (minimum quarterly frequency)	Required (minimum quarterly frequency)
Share unique human profile data with other Participating UBI schemes, for free, in an effort to create a global repository of unique humans, if possible	Required	Required
No cherry picking of nations or geolocation. Need to support all countries, territories, and other corners of the world	Required	[Not applicable]
No exclusion or favouritism based on gender, race, religion, marital status, ethic groups, race, social status, medical conditions, etc	Required	Required
No exclusion or favouritism based on age, at least not for for those above certain age	Age of school start or younger	Age of majority or younger
No exclusion or favouritism based on existence of paperwork (e.g. residency permit, passport, citizenship, etc.)	Required	Encouraged

Earning UBI

Criteria	Global UBI Projects	National UBI Projects
Schemes that enable some users to receive more UBI than others if they save, stake or otherwise keep their UBI untouched are not allowed (because if so, then max UBI would go to the rich, not the poor)	Required	Required
Need to upscale the donated amount, apply significant leverage. For example, distribute $10 worth of UBI for every $1 donated or otherwise received	Required	Recommended, not required

Compatibility

Criteria	​Global UBI Projects	National UBI Projects
Need to cover at least 90% of world population in terms of languages supported	Required	[Not applicable]
Need to cover at least 90% of country population in terms of languages supported	[Not applicable]	Required
Government support users with account creation, maintenance, and recovery (i.e. national Wallets)	[Not applicable]	Required
Need to offer off-boarding option into either the local Fiat currency or a major Participating Currency	Not required	Not required

Spending & Using the UBI

Criteria	Global UBI Projects	National UBI Projects
Spending / using your UBI unaltered for goods and services should be encouraged (i.e. not requiring first exchanging it to another currency)	Required	Required
Developers need to show efforts to build or otherwise encourage creation of open markets for spending and using your UBI	Required	Required

Security & Data Privacy

Criteria	Global UBI Projects	National UBI Projects
Anonymous transactions are not allowed, nor are untraceable transactions (eg Monero)	Required	Required
Need to sufficiently ensure users’ data privacy is protected. Spending habits and similar data need to be protected from mining by large firms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon	Required	Required
Pseudonymous accounts and transactions	Discouraged but allowed	Not allowed. Only allowed in nations where population register is non-existent or highly unreliable
Government supports the Tax Foundation by sharing their (encoded and anonymized) repository of registered residents	[Not applicable]	Required (The main reason we want government support is to gain access to their population register for uniqueness check and residency check)

Governance

Criteria	Global UBI Projects	​National UBI Projects
Decentralization vs. Government backing	Need to be "sufficiently decentralized" that it cannot be sued or intervened by any one entity, bank or government agency	Need to be EITHER fully and publicly backed by / created by / owned by the national government (and in return we will give you significant control over which UBI scheme we should support in your country, to where we should direct the funds), OR sufficiently decentralized that it cannot be sued or intervened by any one entity, bank or government agency
Participating nations will positively legalize use of participating Cryptos	[Not applicable]	Required