01 / Founder's formal statement
It is impossible to attain higher consciousness and understanding or to advance as a society on Earth as long as all human beings do not have equal and open access to the latest research, technology, and data.
The lack of trust that leads to gatekeeping is the ultimate price we must pay in order to become truly human.
Founder directed work focused on equal access, responsible research practice, technology governance, and public knowledge.
Public interest research project in its founding phase.
Designed with UK legal, privacy, and research governance duties in view.
Restrictions require a clear, proportionate, and reviewable basis.
Reports, methods, tools, datasets, and learning resources where lawful.
02 / Public project brief
A proposed founder directed public interest research initiative focused on equal access to advanced research, technology, and data.
Open Gate is designed to maximise legitimate access while applying proportionate legal, privacy, security, and safety controls. Restrictions must never become arbitrary, status based, or opaque.
Opportunity should not depend on wealth, institutional affiliation, nationality, geography, or social status.
Methods, evaluation conditions, limitations, incidents, and decisions should be documented and reproducible.
Consent, privacy, provenance, cultural context, and legitimate rights guide data use and publication.
Research should create durable evidence, capability, or learning that can benefit wider society.
The programme connects infrastructure, evaluation, research access, public interest application, and knowledge publication within one consistent operating framework.
Secure experimentation, storage, observability, documentation, and controlled collaboration.
Output: technical standards, model records, data records, and operational guidance.
Repeatable testing of capability, reliability, bias, robustness, misuse risk, and failure modes.
Output: benchmarks, test suites, evaluation reports, and risk taxonomies.
Access for qualified researchers, independent scholars, and public interest contributors.
Output: research projects, fellowships, workshops, and documented learning.
Research converted into explainers, policy evidence, education, software, and reusable resources.
Output: open reports, responsible datasets, tools, and research archives.
The access model separates legitimate safeguards from discretionary gatekeeping. Reviews focus on legality, competence, proportionality, data rights, safety, and public interest value.
State the research question, required resources, intended outputs, and foreseeable risks.
Use published criteria rather than prestige, wealth, status, or personal discretion.
Provide the least restrictive suitable environment, support, documentation, and controls.
Keep methods, decisions, changes, incidents, limitations, and evidence traceable.
Publish findings, methods, tools, or learning wherever lawful and responsible.
The project remains under the direct supervision of Pezhman Farhangi (Peter Far). Specialist functions may be delegated, but mission, strategic direction, institutional commitments, and public accountability remain subject to founder oversight.
Mission alignment, programme priorities, partnerships, public representation, and major commitments remain under founder approval.
Mission, scope, responsibilities, access commitments, review routes, and institutional duties should be recorded publicly.
Scientific, technical, ethical, legal, and security questions should receive qualified review with declared conflicts.
Outputs, limitations, material incidents, programme progress, and governance improvements should be reported clearly.
The sequence establishes governance before expansion, creates a documented research environment, begins evidence producing work, and scales only after review.
Confirm legal posture, governance design, research priorities, partner criteria, data principles, and access policy.
Establish secure systems, documentation standards, model and data governance, observability, and assurance workflows.
Begin evaluations, approved access projects, public interest pilots, collaboration, and initial publication.
Publish the first programme report, review the access model, strengthen partnerships, and define the next cycle.