The Seven Layer Model Blog

A donor wallet arrives in the theatre without a cross-match to the body of government The Root of GovStack Failure: 'Policy-Agnostic'...

This post addresses the risks of adopting digital wallets and GovStack toolkits without domestic legal sequencing. It shows how withdrawal of consent is a legal act that must propagate across systems under statutory authority, not just toggle in software. The Seven Layer Model for Digital Public Infrastructure offers a repeatable sequence that ensures issuance, revocation, logging, and remedy are all institutionally owned and enforceable.

Digital Public Infrastructure begins in law, not configuration. A licensing scene shows how decisions move from statute and institutional mandate to canonical records, service logic, issuance, delivery, and remedy, and why donor acceleration without jurisdiction replaces capacity with simulation.

The flood took the bridge first, then the shops by the river. By nightfall a cash relief site was live. People keyed in identity numbers...