The Alkebuleum Council brings together the banks, universities, regulators, governments, and diaspora institutions that will govern the trust infrastructure of digital Africa — identity, records, payments, and credentials.
Africa's institutions should not rent the infrastructure that records what is true. The Alkebuleum Council exists so that the continent's own banks, universities, regulators, and governments govern that infrastructure together — setting the standards, validating the network, and shaping its direction.
Alkebuleum is a sovereign trust layer for identity, institutional records, payments, and credit. It is secured not by anonymous capital, but by reputable institutions. The Council is how those institutions take part — and the founding cohort is forming now.
The Alkebuleum Council is designed as a limited-seat governance body, not an open membership club. At maturity, the Council will include 55 institutional members, each holding one equal vote.
Seats are balanced across government, education, finance, fintech, business, nonprofit, civil society, and diaspora institutions to ensure that Africa's sovereign trust layer is shaped by a broad and credible group of institutions — not one sector alone.
Participation tracks define how a member contributes, not how much voting power they hold. A member may participate as an Observer, Governance Contributor, Validator Partner, or Implementation Partner depending on readiness and capacity.
A limited Council designed for credibility, balance, and serious governance.
Every accepted Council member holds equal voting rights.
Seats are distributed across trusted institution types to prevent control by any single sector.
The Council is not a membership club. It is a governance body for continental infrastructure — and joining early means helping set the rules, not inheriting them.
Take part in the governance decisions that shape identity, records, payments, credentials, and institutional trust across the continent.
Be recognized — when and only if you choose to be named publicly — as one of the institutions that helped build Africa's sovereign trust layer.
Work with the Foundation on pilots in identity, academic credentials, land records, payments, anti-corruption logs, and document verification.
Help define validator standards, governance rules, protocol upgrades, and the pathways by which institutions across Africa adopt the network.
Most Council pathways carry no membership fee or financial contribution. Begin as an Observer, Member, Validator, or Implementation Partner based on your readiness.
Begin privately. Evaluate internally. Go public only when your institution is ready — there is no obligation and no public announcement at the expression-of-interest stage.
The Council is open to credible institutions across Africa and the global diaspora — at every level of technical readiness.
National and regional public bodies
Financial institutions and regulators
Higher education and research bodies
Payment and financial technology firms
Standards and oversight authorities
Records and registry institutions
Transparency and accountability orgs
Chambers, coalitions, and networks
All accepted Council members hold one equal vote. Members choose a participation track based on their institution's readiness, mandate, and capacity — and may move between tracks over time.
A full Council seat with equal voting rights, for institutions participating at a lighter level while they evaluate deeper involvement. You vote and receive briefings without an operational commitment.
For institutions ready to take an active governance role — shaping standards, validator rules, and the direction of the protocol, and willing to be named publicly as a Council member.
For institutions ready to help secure the network by operating validator infrastructure under the Proof of Reputation and Authority model — alongside their equal vote.
For institutions piloting a specific use case — credentials, records, payments, or identity — on the network with Foundation support, alongside their equal vote.
Implementation pilots are real, scoped engagements where an institution applies Alkebuleum to a concrete problem. Examples include:
Verifiable citizen and institutional credentials
Tamper-proof degrees and certificates
Property and title registries
Disbursement and settlement rails
Transparent public-procurement records
Authenticity for official paperwork
Cross-border verified participation
Portable reputation and creditworthiness
Joining begins with a conversation, not a commitment. Here's how it goes.
Submit a brief, private expression of interest. No public announcement, no obligation to continue.
We hold an introductory conversation to share the initiative and understand your institution's priorities.
We prepare a participation proposal matched to your readiness, mandate, and the pathway that fits.
When your institution is ready, you formalize participation and — if you choose — are named publicly.
For teams that need to evaluate in depth, the complete Council documentation is available.
The full 10-section formal brief on the Council's purpose, structure, and governance.
DOC 02Detailed comparison of the four pathways and what each involves.
DOC 03Eight pilot use cases showing how the network applies to real institutional problems.
DOC 04The private expression-of-interest form to begin a conversation.
The founding cohort is forming now. Begin a private conversation — no fee, no public announcement, no obligation.