What we do: We are the layer below AI and connectivity
The Connect and Compute Foundation works at the layer below end-user connectivity and access to inference resources. We do not connect schools, hospitals, or households ourselves. We build the open infrastructure: the technical standards, the verification methodologies, and registries that allows others to provide access to connectivity and AI resources accountably, transparently, and at scale.
Standards
CCF develops technical specifications for what connectivity and compute access mean, and how they are verified, and can be traded to ensure better access for all.
The standards will be published openly, refined through stakeholder consultation, and intended as the canonical reference for any actor building on connectivity credits.
Convening
CCF convenes the infrastructure, measurement, and protocol-layer actors who need to align on standards for measuring and trading connectivity and compute as assets. Two tracks of convening operate in parallel: small, mission-aligned protocol-layer foundations who share an interest in maintaining open internet infrastructure, and larger commercial infrastructure providers whose technical participation is required for the standards to scale and be integrated in industry.
Geneva is the natural home for this work. The neutrality, the legal environment, and the existing concentration of internet governance institutions make it the appropriate base for an independent standards body.
Infrastructure
CCF holds and maintains the open-source code, smart contracts, and technical infrastructure that allow the standards to function. This includes a marketplace platform for connectivity credits, on-chain registry of connected institutions, telemetry and verification infrastructure, and related technical artifacts.
CCF also manages the work around validation, pricing and settlement, of connectivity credits https://www.connectivitycredits.org and maintains the community of reference for partnerships and procurement of credits.