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title: "Information flow"
description: "Protocols for how information moves between circles and organisations"
url: "/information-flow/"
tags: [area, information]
readingPathPosition: 36
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# Information flow

The information flow area governs how information moves through the network. It includes protocols for:

**Transparent communication** – how information moves between nodes of the network. The primary structural mechanism for inter-circle information flow is linking or [weaving](/weaving-between-circles.md): the weaver carries not only decisions and agenda items but felt experience between the two spaces they inhabit. Weaving thus double-functions as a mechanism for both governance alignment and information flow. Where circles are not directly linked, [Open decision records](/open-decision-records.md) ensure that governance information is accessible to anyone in the network.

**Shared learning** – how insights reach those who need them.

Each protocol requires [ritual, critique and contemplation](/every-protocol-has-three-inseparable-layers.md) attending to: what information is being suppressed, who controls narrative, and whose stories get amplified.

This area is sketched at the principles level; its specific protocols remain to be developed.

## Sources

- Linking as dual governance/information-flow mechanism from Rau (2023), *Collective Power: Patterns for a Self-Organized Future*

## In this vault

- Previous: [Feedback and learning](/feedback-and-learning.md)
- Next: [Care and support](/care-and-support.md)
- Referenced by: [Living systems become protocol areas](/living-systems-become-protocol-areas.md)