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Guides, specifications, and technical explanations make infrastructure and AI research easier to understand and evaluate.
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Technology for a more open future.
Our mission is to advance education, protect digital rights, and improve access to secure, resilient digital infrastructure.
DETIO FOUNDATION LTD develops open research, software, and learning resources in distributed computing, privacy, and accountable AI — for people who want to understand, question, and improve technology.
Public company limited by guarantee · ACN 699 651 771
Field plate 01Four connected programs
Open research · Open software · Public benefit · Education · Privacy & digital rights · Infrastructure resilience · Technology safety
File 01 / What we do
Ideas become useful when people can examine them.
We connect technical research with public resources. Learners can study the ideas, developers can inspect the software, and researchers can challenge the design.
Build
Develop in the open
Open-source software makes the implementation available for review, reuse, and improvement by other developers.
Browse the work →Question
Research trust & safety
We examine privacy, verification, governance, and human oversight through published designs and experimental tools.
Read the questions →File 02 / Our programs
Four ways to work towards that purpose.
01 / Program file
Open infrastructureIn development
VirtEngine
An open cloud marketplace protocol. Study how resource requests, provider bids, identity, and payments fit together.
02 / Program file
Accountable AIResearch architecture
DSEMA
Research into multi-agent AI that can evolve under verifiable controls. Explore the design questions around oversight and safety.
03 / Program file
Open-source engineeringExperimental software
Bosun
An open-source orchestrator for AI coding agents. Examine how work is coordinated, reviewed, and recovered under human supervision.
04 / Program file
Privacy & digital rightsProtocol research
Identity & VEID
Verifiable identity with less disclosure. Explore encrypted verification, consent, and how services could use proofs of attributes.
Open materials are available today. Research goals are not claims of deployed services or measured impact. Read the current status of our work.
The charter behind the work
Four purposes, written into the constitution.
Every program must advance at least one of these purposes cl 6.1. The wording below is condensed from the signed instrument.
Field kit / Take the work with you
Clone it. Read it. Challenge it.
Everything we publish is inspectable. Start from the repositories — the protocol, the agent orchestrator, and the documentation are all public.
# the open infrastructure protocol
$ git clone https://github.com/virtengine/virtengine.git
# the open-source agent orchestrator
$ git clone https://github.com/virtengine/bosun.gitFile 03 / The Foundation
A public purpose. A framework for accountability.
Our constitution defines how the Foundation can use its resources, make decisions, and protect its public-benefit purposes. Explore those rules and the evidence available today.
Meet the Foundation ↗File 04 / Find your way in
Start with what you want to do.
You can read our resources and contribute to open-source work without becoming a member of the Foundation.
For learners
Understand an idea.
Follow a guide, explore a research question, and inspect its evidence.
Guides · Research questions · Evidence trails
For developersMake something better.
Improve a guide, report a reproducible issue, or contribute code.
Source code · Documentation · Reproducible issues
For collaboratorsBring a useful question.
Discuss research that connects technical work to a public need.
A defined question · A public-benefit aim
Let’s make the work useful
Good research starts with a clear question.
Tell us what you are investigating and who it could help.
DETIO Foundation Ltd · ACN 699 651 771 · Not-for-profit · Technology for public benefit