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Governing Structure

Overview

The governance of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group is structured in the following manner:

Leadership and Management

Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group and its parent company, The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, are duly formed corporate and company entities that

Solely Led, Managed, Owned
are wholly led, managed and owned by their sole Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.
Sole Manager, President, CEO
have the Founder serving as their sole Manager, Officer, Owner, President, and CEO.
Sole Powers, Rights
have the Founder as the sole person with decision-making, executive, fiduciary, managerial, ownership and voting powers, rights, and equivalent, especially those pertaining to Publiks Inc’s, The Publiks Group’s, and The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC’s formation, governance, and overall administration.

Ownership and Membership

Publiks Inc and its divisional partner, The Publiks Group, itself a division of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, have

Sole Member, Owner
the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, as their sole Member and complete Owner, of the corporation and company division, their assets and properties, their divisions, series, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their products and services.
Sole Interests-Holder
the Founder as their sole interests-holder, shareholder, stockholder, or equivalent.
No Other Member, Owner
no other person, legal or natural, as their member, owner, or equivalent.

Partnerships and Affiliations

Announcements of any affiliations, partnerships, sponsorships, and equivalent with Publiks Inc will be provided upon agreements executed by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, solely via this Founder’s express written instrument signed and sealed.

Public Records and Standing

Publiks Inc is a private and nonpublic corporation and the parent of The Publiks Group, The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, is a private and nonpublic limited liability company, both with minimal disclosure requirements. Appropriately limited public record confirmation of Publiks Inc’s and The Publiks Group’s formation, governance, and status is available via minimally required disclosure of filing with the appropriate government entities, namely:

Delaware Division of Corporations
at the State Delaware Division of Corporations, accessible via this link, and typing under Entity Name: “The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC – The Publiks Group.”
Delaware Division of Corporations
at the State Delaware Division of Corporations, accessible via this link, and typing under Entity Name: “Publiks Inc.”
California Secretary of State
at the California Secretary of State Business Search, accessible via this link, and typing under Entity Name: “Publiks Inc,” then viewing history for past and current filings.
Close Up of Sharpened Heads of Multi-Colored Pencils
Audience, Lajeado, RS, Brasil, April 2020 (Lucas George Wendt)

Governing Nature

Provision

The governance of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group is, as follows, in character, essence, and nature:

Confidential in Nature

Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group are formed to be and remain confidential and thus:

Confidential Existence
exist, respectively, as a confidential corporate entity and a confidential company division entity.
Confidential Governance
are entities of confidential administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Non-Confidentially
with no aspects of their administration, including governance, executed in any way non-confidentially — including via disclosure, exposure, investigation, publicity, regulation, transparency, vetting, or equivalent.
Organizational Confidentiality
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational confidentiality of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Independent in Nature

Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group are formed to be and remain independent and thus:

Independent Existence
exist, respectively, as an independent corporate entity and an independent company division entity.
Independent Governance
are entities of independent administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Non-Independently
with no aspects of their administration, including governance, executed in any way non-independently — including by any other entity, office, or person, or via bureaucracy, collectivism, conservatorship, custodianship, regulation, sponsorship, supervision, takeover, or equivalent.
Organizational Independence
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational independence of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Intact in Nature

Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group are formed to be and remain internally intact and thus:

Intact Existence
exist, respectively, as an internally intact corporate entity and an internally intact company division entity.
Internally Intact Governance
are entities of internally intact administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Non-Internally Intact
with no aspects of their administration, including governance, executed in any way that is not internally intact — including via unauthorized access or during efforts at communication, connection, exchange, networking, provisioning, sharing, testing, or equivalent.
Organizational Integrity
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational integrity of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Private in Nature

Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group are formed to be and remain private and thus:

Private Existence
exist, respectively, as a nonpublic and private corporate entity and a nonpublic and private company entity.
Private Governance
are entities of private administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Publicly
with no aspects of their administration, including governance, executed in any way publicly — including via access, exposure, or transparency or via attempts at control, decision-making, or ownership that are collectivist, communal, cooperative, governmental, socialist or equivalent in nature.
Organizational Privacy
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational privacy of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.
Private in Public Benefit
with Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group maintaining such private nature and status through any arrangement, effort, or purpose that is “charitable,” “philanthropic,” or “public benefit,” as defined in the Codes and Policies.
Private via Philanthropies
with any charitable, philanthropic or public benefit arrangement, effort, or purpose fulfilled primarily through The Ikoku Philanthropies division of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC.
Philanthropies Solely Administered
with the sole person with powers and rights to conduct, delegate, finance, fulfill, manage, operate, report, review, and otherwise administer any charitable, philanthropic or public benefit arrangement, effort, or purpose of Publiks Inc or The Publiks Group being the sole Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and as executed solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Philanthropies Solely Authorized
with the sole person with powers and rights to authorize, change, limit, review, specify, and otherwise determine any charitable, philanthropic or public benefit arrangement, effort, or purpose of Publiks Inc or The Publiks Group being the sole Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and as executed solely via the Founder’s authorization.

Safe and Secure in Nature

Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group are formed to be and remain safe and secure and thus:

Safe, Secure Existence
exist, respectively, as a safe and secure corporate entity and a safe and secure company division entity.
Safe, Secure Governance
are entities of safe and secure administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Insecurely, Unsafely
with no aspects of their administration, including governance, executed in any way insecurely or unsafely — including via accident, attack, disruption, hinderance, interception, interference, intrusion, trespass, or equivalent.
Organizational Safety, Security
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational safety and security of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Single and Unified in Nature

Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group are formed to be and remain single, central and unified and thus:

Single, Central, Unified Existence
exist, respectively, as a single, central and unified corporate entity and a single, central and unified company division entity.
Single, Central, Unified Governance
are entities of single, central and unified administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Decentrally, Plurally
with no aspects of their administration, including governance, executed in any way decentrally or plurally — including via decentralization, duplication, federation, franchise, license, multiplication, pluralism, plurality, pluralization, redundancy, or equivalent.
Organizational Unity
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational unity of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Sole Administration and Management

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Sole Administration, Management Powers
any and all administration and management powers with respect to Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, including powers of control, development, finance, governance, operation, oversight, regulation, supervision, and equivalent of and over Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group.
Entailing Fiduciary
and including, especially, any and all fiduciary powers in any way pertaining to Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all administration and management powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Administration, Management
with such administration and management proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such administration and management not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole administrator and manager and sole manner of administration and management, and with such administration and management also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Authorizer and Authorization

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Sole Authorization, Executive Powers
any and all authorization and executive powers with respect to Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, including powers to authorize Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group to engage in, enter into, expend for, or otherwise execute any acts, activities, agents, arrangements, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all authorization and executive powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all authorization and executive powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Authorization
with such authorization proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such authorization not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole authorizer and executive and sole manner of authorization, and with such authorization also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Books- and Records-Keeping

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Sole Books, Records Powers
any and all books- and records-making and keeping powers with respect to Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, including powers to have Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group add, correct, create, disclose, edit, hold, officialize, redact, reproduce, revise, safeguard, seal, sign, stamp, update, and otherwise maintain any accounts, agreements, books, communications, contracts, correspondence, documents, dossiers, files, forms, ledgers, instruments, minutes, notifications, notices, proceedings, records, reports, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all books- and records-making and keeping powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all books- and records-making and keeping powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Books, Records
with such books- and records-making and keeping proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such books- and records-making and keeping not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole books- and records-maker and keeper and sole manner of books- and records-making and keeping, and with such books- and records-making and keeping also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Decision-Making and Voting

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Sole Deciding, Voting Powers
any and all decision-making and voting powers with respect to Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, including powers to have Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group make and execute any decisions, votes, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all decision-making and voting powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all decision-making and voting powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Deciding, Voting
with such decision-making and voting proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such decision-making and voting not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole decision-maker and voter and sole manner of decision-making and voting, and with such decision-making and voting also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Employment and Appointment

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Employment, Appointment Powers
any and all employment and appointment powers with respect to Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, including powers to have Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group apprentice, assign, contract, elect, hire, outsource, or otherwise engage any agents, entities, offices, parties, persons, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all employment and appointment powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all employment and appointment powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Employment, Appointment
with such employment and appointment proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such employment and appointment not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole employer and appointer and sole manner of employment and appointment, and with such employment and appointment also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Finances and Funding

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Financial and Funding Powers
any and all financial and funding powers with respect to Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, including powers to have Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group engage in, enter into, expend for, or otherwise execute any financial acts, activities, arrangements, or equivalent, including those relating to accounts, bonds, budgets, debts, disbursements, distributions, fees, fines, grants, investments, liens, loans, payments, purchases, sales, scholarships, taxes, transactions, wages, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all financial and funding powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all financial and funding powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Finances, Funding
with such finances and funding proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such finances and funding not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole finance officer and funder and sole manner of finance and funding, and with such finances and funding also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Policies- and Rules-Making

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Policies- and Rules-Making Powers
any and all policies- and rules-making and compliance powers with respect to Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, including powers to have Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group adopt, alter, amend, apply, enforce, interpret, remedy, revise, substitute, or otherwise ensure adherence to any code, guideline, law, policy, recommendation, regulation, rule, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all policies- and rules-making and compliance powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all policies- and rules-making and compliance powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Policies-, Rules-Making
with such policies- and rules-making and compliance proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such policies- and rules-making and compliance not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole policies- and rules-maker and compliance adjudicator and sole manner of policies- and rules-making and compliance, and with such policies- and rules-making and compliance also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Powers of Determination

As such, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the sole person with the authority and powers to adjudicate and determine — without appeal or liability — whether a given act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent is:

Compatible or Not
compatible or incompatible with Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group themselves, as well as their founding, governance, and overall administration, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably compatible.
Compliant or Not
complaint or non-compliant with the Codes and Policies of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, as well as applicable law and regulation, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably compliant, law-abiding and policy-abiding.
Confidential, Private or Not
in accordance with or infringing the policies, principles, and protections for confidentiality and privacy, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably confidential and private.
Consented or Not
in accordance with or infringing the policies, principles, and protections for consent, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably consented.
Ethical or Not
in accordance with or infringing the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably ethical.
Faith-Aligned or Not
in alignment or non-alignment with the faith-based commitments of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably faith-aligned.
Mission-Aligned or Not
in alignment or non-alignment with the mission and purposes of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably mission-aligned.
Protective, Safe, Secure or Not
in accordance with or infringing the policies, principles, and protections for independence, integrity, safety, and security, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably protective, safe and secure.
With Intent, Knowledge
with the understanding that any act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent effected or facilitated with intent or knowledge of infringement of the Codes and Policies — including avoidance of Founder authorization or adjudication — is to be considered, from its inception and prior to Founder determination, effectively and provisionally incompatible, noncompliant, unaligned, unconsented, unethical, unlawful, unprotective or equivalent, with the objective to preclude any intended or unintended evasion of Founder adjudication or determination and to limit any deleterious effects before or after eventual remedy.

with No Removal or Reduction

And furthermore, there is and will be no manner, means, or possibility of removal or replacement of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, nor any delegation or diminishment of any of his aforementioned powers, in any way, under any circumstances, for any period, or for any benefit, end, goal, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, or reason.

Community, September 2019 (Pierre Basin)
Community, September 2019 (Pierre Basin)
Conversation, December 2017 (Shwetangi Gupta)
Conversation, December 2017 (Shwetangi Gupta)
Cast, January 2018 (Avi)
Cast, January 2018 (Avi)

Governing Policies

Provision

The governance of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group is, in important part, conducted via the Codes and Policies below:

Publiks Group Agreement

The Publiks Conduct and Service Agreement, which

Collectively Governing
consists of several Codes and Policies that collectively govern all conduct and service in any way relating to Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group.
Collectively Including
collectively include the Basic Policies — the Conditions and Terms of Founding, the Conditions and Terms of Governance, the Conditions and Terms of Conduct and Service, and the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics — as well as all other codes and policies, associated as the Correlative Policies.
Available Below
are made available further below.

Conditions of Founding

Conditions and Terms of Founding of Publiks (HTML)

Conditions of Governance

Conditions and Terms of Governance of Publiks (HTML)

Conditions of Service

Conditions and Terms of Conduct and Service (HTML)

Founding Ethics

Founding and Governing Code of Ethics (HTML)

All Policies

All Policies (HTML)

Conclusion

— Conditions and Terms

— All of the above and aforementioned in this section constitutes the Conditions and Terms of Governance of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group (the “Conditions and Terms of Governance” and “Conditions of Governance”) and forms an integral part of the Conditions and Terms of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, the Codes and Policies of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group, as well as the Publiks Conduct and Service Agreement you may enter into with Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group.

— Concerns and Questions

— Please report any concerns about code or policy violations, and send any questions you may have regarding the Conditions of Governance or the Publiks Conduct and Service Agreement, to policies@publiks.org.

— Concluding

— 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 Publiks Inc or The Publiks Group — in any way, either directly or indirectly, and via any manner, means, method, or mode — you enter into the Publiks 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.

Gathering, January 2020 (Pierre Basin)
Circle, September 2019 (Pierre Basin)
Circle, September 2019 (Pierre Basin)
Family, August 2018 (Taru Huhkio)
Family, August 2018 (Taru Huhkio)
Polity, January 2021 (Frank Castro)
Polity, January 2021 (Frank Castro)

Also at the Division

The Publiks Group and its parent company, The Ikoku Group, are 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 Publiks Group and The Ikoku Group provide 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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