Reclaim the Interface: A 5-Week Campaign to Launch the Meta-Layer SIG

✅ Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Join ISOC & Access the Platform

   • Once you join the Internet Society, you gain access to the ISOC community platform.

   • From there, you can join your local chapter, other chapters worldwide, and Special Interest Groups (SIGs).

2. Pick the Weekly Campaign Message

   • Use the provided campaign messages (one per week for five weeks). See this week's below.

   • Each message includes text + a hero image.

3. Tailor for Your Audience

   • Before posting, add one sentence to tailor the message for your specific chapter or SIG.

   • You can easily draft this sentence yourself or generate one with our content assistant (for example: “As part of our chapter’s commitment to open governance, we’re sharing this week’s call to support the Meta-Layer SIG.”).

4. Post & Share the Image

   • Include both the message text and the hero image in your post. Choose one for the provided hero images or generate your own image using the provided image prompt.

   • How to get the images from this doc:

     • Right click on the image.

     • Click download

   • You can also find alternative images in the shared Google Drive folder: Meta-Layer SIG Drive – Social Images. Feel free to add your own images there too.

5. Engage with Your Community

   • If someone else has already posted that week’s message in your chapter or SIG:

     • Like the post.

     • Leave a thought-provoking comment or question to start a conversation.

     • Like and reply to any responses that come in.

   • We also recommend that you reply to any comments on your own posts — this builds momentum and shows active presence.

6. Stay Consistent Across 5 Weeks

   • Repeat this process each week, from Sept 24–Oct 31, to cover all five campaign themes:

     1. Reclaim the Interface

     2. The Web Is Not Neutral

     3. We Are the Trust Layer

     4. Vote to Prototype the Future

     5. The Interface Is the New Frontier

Sept 24-27: "Reclaim the Interface"

Main Message: Reclaim the Interface - the civic frontier where humans and AI must coexist under community governance.

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[Add custom lead-in sentence for the chapter or SIG]

The Meta-Layer Infrastructure SIG is first-ever interface-level governance SIG. It is a launch vehicle with a two-year mandate: build the governance, terminology, Desirable Properties, and substrate of the meta-layer: the civic layer above the webpage where humans, communities, and AI meet, and where trust signals, consent, and context can be made visible and governable. At the end of that runway, the SIG sunsets and transitions into the Meta-Layer Task Force, the first global body dedicated to interface-level governance.

Over the next two years, AI agents will move from experimental to everyday. Some predict the first sparks of AGI in this same window. That makes the interface layer - the place where humans and agents actually meet - the frontline of trust and safety. The Meta-Layer SIG exists to ensure ISOC builds civic infrastructure before the AGI era locks us into corporate defaults.

That means this SIG will not be quiet. Expect 10x the activity of a normal SIG: working groups, events, prototypes, and governance design happening continuously across the globe. Your chapter’s vote between Oct 17–31 kicks this into motion and secures the chance for ISOC to lead where platforms dominate - the interface layer itself.

🔗 Join us:

• Info Session #1 Replay

• Info Session #2 – Sept 27

• Info Session #3 – Oct 18

• Weekly Office Hours

• Onboarding Form

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Example Image Prompt: A browser interface splitting open to reveal a vibrant civic commons underneath. Neon overlays, annotations, diverse avatars, and trust symbols float above familiar websites. Text on top: "Reclaim the Interface!"

Right click and click Save