Sankofa Programme Standards

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guosmmDocumentId: GUOSMM-B-2026-021
title: "Sankofa Programme Standards"
instrumentVersion: 1.0
language: en
publishedAt: 2026-07-12T14:20:00Z
effectiveAt: 2026-07-12T14:20:00Z
signingAuthority: "Sovereign Military Order of Malta"
draftStatus: prepared_for_counsel
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# GAZZETTA UFFICIALE DELL'ORDINE SOVRANO MILITARE DI MALTA
# OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA (GUOSMM)

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Document ID | `GUOSMM-B-2026-021` |
| Series | B |
| Document type | Programme Standards — Technology and Cloud Governance |
| Published | 2026-07-12T14:20:00Z |
| Effective | 2026-07-12T14:20:00Z |
| Entity | Sankofa |
| Parent acts | `GUOSMM-B-2026-012`, `GUOSMM-D-2026-010`, `GUOSMM-D-2026-011`, `GUOSMM-E-2026-010` |

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# Sankofa Programme Standards

## Section 1 — Purpose

1.1 This Instrument establishes the programme standards for **Sankofa** as an Order-chartered sovereign technology provider and cloud-governance body.

1.2 These standards govern cloud operations, identity-support services, registry orchestration, AI-assisted workflow support, portal continuity, evidence preservation, and external-facing service posture.

## Section 2 — Operating lanes

2.1 Sankofa may operate in the following lanes:

- cloud and platform governance
- portal and workflow orchestration
- identity-support and registry continuity
- marketplace and service-integration administration
- AI-assisted operational support

2.2 Sankofa shall not claim that those lanes alone create central-bank, EMI, telecom-regulator, civil-registry, or nation-state licensing powers.

## Section 3 — Standards posture

3.1 Sankofa shall maintain:

- immutable publication and evidence references to governing GUOSMM acts
- role-separated operator workflows
- auditable versioning of standards, terms, and accepted records
- preservation of authoritative source references for decisions and status changes

3.2 AI-assisted workflows must remain advisory or operator-governed unless a governing instrument expressly authorizes automation for that function.

3.3 External-body references used by Sankofa shall follow `GUOSMM-D-2026-011`.

## Section 4 — Respondent-jurisdiction dependency

4.1 Where a Sankofa service enters a regulated host-state lane, the service package shall identify the specific local permit, filing, approval, or contract dependency.

4.2 Sankofa standards do not displace host-state cybersecurity, privacy, cloud-hosting, consumer-protection, or public-sector-procurement rules where those rules apply.

## Section 5 — Evidence and continuity

5.1 Sankofa shall preserve:

- accepted terms version and hash
- operator and user role context
- governing act references
- linked order, registry, and authenticated-copy references where applicable
- audit trails for approval, rejection, suspension, and revocation events

5.2 No official-use workflow shall be represented as complete when the authoritative record chain is broken.

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*Signing authority: Sovereign Military Order of Malta*