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Founding

Introduction

The founding of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC has been at the behest and impetus of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and has proceeded as follows:

History and Founder

Section 1.1.0. The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC was established:

1.1.1. Founding Company
in 2019 by its sole Founder, Member, Owner, and President, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.
1.1.2. Founding Entities
as part of ongoing work he has carried out for over three decades, leading also to his founding of Publiks IncThe Ikoku Charitable Trusts, The Ikoku Foundations, and Humana Sancta.
1.1.3. Founding Fulfillments
with the understanding that, where appropriate and authorized solely by the Founder, these distinct and independent entities will endeavor to coordinate efforts toward the fulfillment of their respective missions, purposes, and service to their respective communities.

Concerns and Interests

Section 1.2.0. The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC was also founded as a genuine development from:

1.2.1. Concern for Care
the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in issues pertaining to care.
1.2.2. Concern for Creativity
the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in practices, problems, and products of creativity.
1.2.3. Concern for Community
the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in communities, both local and global in nature.
1.2.4. Concern for Ethics
the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in issues pertaining to ethics.
1.2.5. Concern for the Human, Humane
the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in the human and humane, and attendant concern regarding de- and subhumanizing, inhuman and inhumane conduct and resulting instances of inhumanity, with the Founder’s insights from such concern proving valuable during several periods, preceding and during the formation of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, where he was subject to inhumane conduct that entailed persistent, pervasive and profound violations of the confidentiality and privacy, freedom and liberty, independence and integrity, and, ultimately, sanctity of his inner being, body, and brain, and inner self, soul, and spirit.*

*for further, see Inhumane Conduct section below

1.2.6. Concern for Difference
the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in issues pertaining to difference, with the Founder’s insights from such concern proving valuable during the aforementioned periods, able to elucidate that — as also experienced by others — such inhumane conduct depends upon and employ notions of human and perceived difference (including those pertaining to birth and citizenship, culture, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sex) to elicit active and passive support for persistent, pervasive and profound violations of a person’s humanness.*

*for further, see Inhumane Conduct section below

Mission and Purposes

Section 1.3.0. The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC’s founding mission and purposes are therefore:

1.3.1. To Foster
to foster care and creativity, community and ethics in lives and societies of enduring concern to the Founder.
1.3.2. To Serve
to serve a range of communities touched by the Founder, including through disciplines in which he has trained and practiced.
1.3.3. To Fulfill
to fulfill its mission and purposes as a faith-aligned company, abiding by the basic principles and practices of the Humana Sancta Faith (the “Humana Faith” and “Sancthumanism”).
1.3.4. To Succeed
and to succeed in developing a company — as well as communities — where the aforementioned behaviors are considered inhumane, as well as unnecessary, and so do not become or remain the means for any act or activity, benefit or good, product or service, mission or purpose.
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Focus

Provision

The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC’s further establishment has also been focused and limited as follows:

Activities and Administration

Section 1.5.0. All acts, activities, affairs, agents, arrangements, assets, and equivalent of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC are administered solely via the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, and thus focused to ensure their alignment with and furtherance of the mission and purposes of the company. Accordingly, The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC’s administration is conducted solely via means limited by the organization’s entity status as:

1.5.1. Faith-Aligned
a faith-aligned company.
1.5.2. For-Profit
a for-profit company.
1.5.3. Independent
an independent company.
1.5.4. Non-Governmental
a non-governmental company.
1.5.5. Non-Political, -Partisan
a non-political and non-partisan company.
1.5.6. Non-Public, Private
a non-public and private company.
1.5.7. Single-Interestholder
a limited liability company whose interests are wholly held and owned by its sole Member and Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.
1.5.8. Single-Member
a single-member company, wholly owned by its sole Member and Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.

Areas and Divisions

Section 1.6.0. As further described in Areas and Divisions, The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC administers its efforts via eight (8) areas of focus:

1.6.1. Care | Health | Sciences
1.6.2. Culture | Communities
1.6.3. Design | Development
1.6.4. Ethics | Rights
1.6.5. Education | Information
1.6.6. Research | Inquiry
1.6.7. Real | Intellectual Property
1.6.8. Solutions | Technologies

Faith and Spirituality

Section 1.7.0. The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC’s faith-based commitments are focused in the following manner:

1.7.1. Humana Faith
that none of its acts, activities, agents, or arrangements may come in conflict, in any way, with the Humana Sancta Faith (the “Humana Faith” and “Sancthumanism”) — as administered, defined, interpreted and governed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, serving as sole Founder and Presiding Fellow of Humana Sancta.
1.7.2. Sanctity of Human, As-Is
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a belief in the sanctity of each human being as-is.
1.7.3. Sanctity of Human, Inner Being
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a belief that the confidentiality and privacy, freedom and liberty, independence and integrity, and sanctity of each human’s inner being, brain, and body, and inner self, soul, and spirit — as well as attendant rights to such — are inalienable, sacrosanct and thus absolute.
1.7.4. Sanctity of Human, of Mind
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a belief that the confidentiality and privacy, freedom and liberty, independence and integrity, and sanctity of each human’s mind and and its activities, functions, and tasks, such as cognizing, perceiving, sensing, speaking, thinking, be it in silence or in voice, by, to or with oneself — and attendant rights to such — are inalienable, sacrosanct and thus absolute.
1.7.5. Sanctity of Human, with Self
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a belief that the confidentiality and privacy, freedom and liberty, independence and integrity, and sanctity of each human’s activities solely by and for, to and with the self — as well as attendant rights to such — are inalienable, sacrosanct and thus absolute.
1.7.6. Sanctity of Protection
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with an attendant faith-based commitment to ensuring protection of the above beliefs and rights, including safeguarding against diminishment or infringement of a given human’s humanness, humaneness, or humanity, or a given human’s desert, existence, nature, or status as an equal and full being as-is, without treatment as though innately deserving physical, psycho-logical or spiritual debasement, discrimination, persecution, or punishment.
1.7.7. Sanctity of Provision
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with an attendant faith-based commitment to ensuring provision for the above beliefs and rights, resulting in their highest possible level of spiritual and substantive enjoyment, for the Founder and every follower of Humana Sancta, worthy of the respect their humanity requires.

Incompatibility with Founding

Section 1.8.0. The activities, agents, and arrangements of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC are therefore focused and limited via determinations of incompatibility with the company, as delineated below:

1.8.1. Notwithstanding Proviso
firstly, notwithstanding any provision of applicable law or regulation, the Codes and Policies, or any equivalent founding or legal documents, no activity, agent, or arrangement of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC may
1.8.1.1. Notwithstanding, Infringement, Founding
effect, facilitate, or otherwise foster any infringement of the Founding of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC or the Governance of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, as described in the Codes and Policies (respectively, the “Founding” and the “Governance”).
1.8.1.2. Notwithstanding, Infringement, Faith
effect, facilitate, or otherwise foster any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments.
1.8.1.3. Notwithstanding, Infringement, Policy
effect, facilitate, or otherwise foster any infringement of the Codes and Policies.
1.8.1.4. Notwithstanding, Inhumane Conduct
effect, facilitate, or otherwise foster any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.2. Adjudication of Incompatibility
secondly, any such infringing or inhumane activity, agent, or arrangement — as well as any advantage, benefit, information, or property attributed to it — is to be adjudicated solely by the Founder as incompatible with The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC itself as well as its founding, governance, and overall administration.
1.8.3. Determinations of Incompatibility
so thirdly, each activity, agent, and arrangement relating to The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC is subject to determinations of incompatibility further delineated below, namely,
1.8.3.1. Determination, Incompatibility, Activities
where the Founder determines that an activity effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.2. Determination, Incompatibility, Agents
where the Founder determines that an agent effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.3. Determination, Incompatibility, Arrangements
where the Founder determines that an arrangement effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.4. Determination, Incompatibility, Persons, Natural
where the Founder determines that a natural person effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.5. Example of Persons, Natural
as has been determined, among natural persons, in the cases of Eleanor Marie Brown (AB, Brown; JD, Yale) of Jamaica and the United States of America; Rafael Nadal Parera of Manacor, Mallorca, Spain; Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; and Jeff Williams of Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California, United States of America;
1.8.3.6. Determination, Incompatibility, Persons, Legal
where the Founder determines that a legal person effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.7. Example of Persons, Legal
as has been determined, among legal persons, in the cases of Leland Stanford Jr University of Palo Alto, California, United States of America and The New York Times Company of New York City, New York, United States of America;
1.8.3.8. Determination, Incompatibility, Persons, Political
where the Founder determines that a government, political, public or state authority, entity, office, or person effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.9. Example of Persons, Political
as has been determined, among political persons, in the cases of appointed and elected officials and representatives at the city, county, district, state, and national levels and political organizations of San Francisco, California, and the United States of America;
1.8.4. Incompatible, Unauthorized, Unqualified
fourthly, subsequent to the Founder’s determination of incompatibility, such activity, agent, arrangement, or person is to be deemed unauthorized and unqualified — entailing, where applicable, the revocation of any authorization or qualification — to be an activity, agent, arrangement, or person of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, in any capacity, especially that pertaining to decision-making, leadership, membership, stakeholding, or voting, and in any way as part of its administration, or as a recipient of any assets, contract, funding, properties, support, work, or equivalent.
1.8.5. Reporting, Directly, Fully Informing Founder
and upon discovery by any person of any indication, instance, or possibility of incompatibility, such person must directly report to and fully inform the Founder of such issues.
1.8.6. Founder as Sole Adjudicator
with the understanding that the Founder is the sole person with powers to conduct inquiries, investigations, and other proceedings regarding such issues and make adjudications and determinations of compatibility or incompatibility, confirmed and executed only via the Founder’s authorization.
1.8.7. Notwithstanding Lawfulness
with the further understanding that, as made evident by the notwithstanding provisos, the lawfulness of a given act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent does not preclude its incompatibility or its infringing, inhumane or equivalent nature in relation to The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, to be determined solely by the Founder.

Inhumane Conduct

Section 1.9.0. The aforementioned inhumane conduct include the behaviors delineated below, properly understood to not only treat a person inhumanely but to also render the treater inhuman, and so they are to be absent from any and all acts, activities, agents, arrangements, and equivalent relating to The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, and are not to be effected, facilitated or fostered in any way or via any manner, means, method, or mode, or to any degree:

1.9.1. Denial, Autonomy
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s autonomy, rights to autonomy, or protections of such — via circumventing consent or disempowering decision-making for the self, and in this instance, a totalizing regime that effects, facilitates, and fosters a systemic withholding of basic, fundamental and necessary information from a human regarding the aforementioned inhumane conduct while providing other persons, even the greater public, an inhumane surfeit of exhibition and information regarding the human being.
1.9.2. Denial, Confidentiality
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s confidentiality, rights to confidentiality, or protections of such — via the preclusion of any possibility for confidences or confidential acts, matters, or relations.
1.9.3. Denial, Dignity
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s dignity, rights to dignity, or protections of such — via public degradation or depravity, social excoriation or stripping.
1.9.4. Denial, Equality
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s consideration, recognition, and treatment as equally and fully human, and so deserving of a fundamental reciprocity — to not do to that person what is not done simultaneously to each and every human being, or what would not be done to oneself or one’s most loved one.
1.9.5. Denial, Freedom, Liberty
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s freedom and liberty, rights to freedom and liberty, or protections of such — via any means of bondage or enslavement, forced labor or indentured servitude.
1.9.6. Denial, Freedom, Liberty, Mind
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s freedom and liberty of mind and thought, rights to freedom and liberty of mind and thought, or protections of such — including to thinking freely, by, to or with oneself, in silence or in voice, with absolute confidentiality and privacy, without detection or dissemination, imposition or intrusion.
1.9.7. Denial, Privacy
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s privacy, rights to privacy, or protections of such — via the preclusion of any possibility for private life or private acts, matters, or relations, including any private cognition, dream, emotion, idea, memory, perception, sensation, or thought.
1.9.8. Denial, Private Property, Work
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s private property or work, rights to private property or work, or protections of such — via the preclusion of any possibility for private labor or office, private compensation or value.
1.9.9. Exhibition, Exposure
the exhibition or exposure of a human being.
1.9.10. Experimentation, Testing
the experimentation or testing on a human being.
1.9.11. Extortion, Ransom
the extortion or ransom of a human being.
1.9.12. Harassment, Stalking
the persistent or pervasive harassment, stalking, or tracking of a human being.
1.9.13. Harm, Injuring
the insistent or persistent physical, physiological or psychological abuse, harm, or injury of a human being.
1.9.14. Indifference, Cruel
the cruel or depravedly indifferent treatment of a human being — via maleficence, malfeasance, or malevolence meant to incur pain.
1.9.15. Isolation, Marginalization
the isolation or marginalization of a human being from humans — and vice versa — via any means of ostracizing or scapegoating, stigmatization or vilification.
1.9.16. Prejudice, Persecution
the insistent or persistent prejudice against and persecution of a human being.
1.9.17. Sporting, Toying
the sporting or toying with a human being — including via amusing or entertaining oneself, betting, chasing, competing, gambling, gaming, hunting, or racing.
1.9.18. Targeting, as Conditions
the targeting of a human being to make any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct a condition of advancement, affiliation, association, care, existence, learning, life, participation, service, support, wealth, or work, especially where it is not such a condition for every other person.
1.9.19. Totalitarianism, Incremental
the enabling a polity, sector, or state to subject a human being to any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct, and thus incrementally instantiate forms of totalitarianism.
1.9.20. Tyranny, Majoritarian
the enabling a community or group to collectively, democratically or publicly choose, decide, or vote to have a human being be subjected to any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.9.21. Use, Instrumentality
the instrumental use of a human being as means to others’s ends.
1.9.22. Utility, Utilitarianism
the utilitarian use or utility of a human being for the greater good or the increased or maximal gain of a community, field, or state.

Intrinsic Refusals

Section 1.10.0. In light, therefore, of the aforementioned, incompatibility with The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC entails the following basic refusals, each intrinsic to the basic humanity, humanness, and humaneness of each human being, including the Founder, and to the respect such humanity requires:

1.10.1. Basic Refusal, Inhumane Conduct
that The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC and the Founder resolutely refuse to give any agreement, authorization, consent, license, permission, or equivalent — or to waive any attendant decisions or rights — for any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct, in any way, via any manner, means, method, or mode, to any degree, under any circumstances, for any period, or for any perceived benefit, end, goal, good, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, reason, or equivalent.
1.10.2. Basic Refusal, Use as Means, Medium
that The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC and the Founder resolutely refuse to give any agreement, authorization, consent, license, permission, or equivalent — or to waive any attendant decisions or rights — for any access or use of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC or Founder, or any of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC’s or the Founder’s activities, affairs, agents, arrangements, or assets, or being, body or brain, or self, soul, or spirit, or any equivalent, with the effect or intent of construing, employing or otherwise using the Founder — or any human being — instrumentally or utilitarianly, as a means or medium, for a greater good or to an end of another person or any association, community, field, group, polity, public, or society of persons, in any way, via any manner, means, method, or mode, to any degree, under any circumstances, for any period, or for any perceived benefit, end, goal, good, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, reason, or equivalent.
1.10.3. Basic Refusals as Principle
that these two basic refusals — at once human and humane — together constitute a fundamental limiting and restricting principle, and wherever there is conflict or question, legally override and supersede any conflicting clause or interpretation of any alleged, assumed, construed, presumed or otherwise made or understood agreement, arrangement, article, authorization, bylaw, choice, code, consent, contract, decision, guideline, law, license, order, permission, policy, principle, provision, regulation, right, term, vote, warrant, or equivalent.
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Form

Provision

The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC’s organizational form is as delineated below:

Formation

Section 1.12.0. The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC is formally organized as a series limited liability company, as provided for in the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, and it is registered and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Names

Section 1.13.0. The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC is also officially known under the business names, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Group and The Ikoku Group. All three names, as used in official Ikoku Group documents, products, services, and sites, refer to the same aforementioned company entity.

Divisions

Section 1.14.0. As provided for under law for series limited liability companies, The Ikoku Group uses its series as a means to structure its operations into the five (5) divisions and eight (8) areas of focus described in the main Areas and Divisions page. The five divisions are as follows:

1.14.1. Ikoku Corporation
1.14.2. Ikoku Holdings
1.14.3. Ikoku Services
1.14.4. Ikoku Philanthropies
1.14.5. Publiks Group

Efforts

Section 1.15.0. The Ikoku Group, via its divisions, is thus structured to carry out efforts in the aforementioned areas, and to ultimately fulfill its founding mission to foster care and creativity, community and ethics in disciplines and among peoples of enduring concern to the Founder. As always, the objective is the improvement of lives and the betterment of societies.

Conclusion

— Conditions and Terms

1.16.1. All of the aforementioned in this section constitutes the Conditions and Terms of Founding of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC (the “Conditions and Terms of Founding” and “Conditions of Founding”) and forms an integral part of the Conditions and Terms of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, the Codes and Policies of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, as well as The Ikoku Group Conduct and Service Agreement you may enter into with The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC.

— Concerns and Questions

1.16.2. Please report any concerns about code or policy violations, and send any questions you may have regarding the Conditions of Founding or The Ikoku Group Conduct and Service Agreement, to policies@ikokugroup.com.

— Concluding

1.16.3. And as a concluding aviso and proviso, you are informed as well as reminded that by commencing or continuing any conduct or service relating to The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC — in any way, either directly or indirectly, and via any manner, means, method, or mode — you enter into The Ikoku Group Conduct and Service Agreement and agree to abide by and be legally bound by the Policy conditions, principles, protections, and terms described above, and the Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification or severability, as amended from time to time solely by the Founder.

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Community, October 2021 (Javier Miranda)
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Also at the Group

The Ikoku Group is dedicated to developing, providing, and safekeeping ideas and solutions — with the mission to foster care and community, culture and creativity, ethics and innovation in lives and societies. And so in accordance with the above, The Ikoku Group provides the following:

I.

A Company of Care and Community

A company and divisions committed to developing and ultimately providing ideas, practices, and products fostering care and community — for the benefit and service of people coexisting in local and global communities.

II.

A Company of Culture and Creativity

A company and divisions committed to developing and ultimately providing ideas, practices, and products fostering culture and creativity — for the benefit and enjoyment of people engaging in and with local and global communities.

III.

A Company of Ethics and Innovation

A company and divisions committed to developing and ultimately providing innovation that abides by ethics principles and protections — for the benefit and humane use of people employing our solutions for local and global concerns.

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