The speaker signs
Consent happens in the browser, on an invitation link that works once. Corpus use and media use are two separate signatures.
The registry
Consent is a record, not a checkbox.
How the registry works
Four steps, and a record left behind at each one.
A consent record is generated
Each record carries a West Africa Time (WAT) reading, a US Eastern reading, and an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 8601 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) record.
A named human verifies every clip
Nothing is auto-approved. The verifier's name stays attached to the clip for as long as the clip exists.
Exports are filtered before they run
An export contains only verified clips from speakers whose consent is granted and unexpired, and it writes its own log row before the file is handed over.
Withdrawn consent is honored immediately and shown in coral throughout the registry.
The Wa-Zo-Bia standard
Three rules that do notbend.
They govern the registry, this website, and every figure either one publishes.
01
Nothing is auto-approved
Verification is always a named human action.
02
Absence is never a value
Missing data is shown as missing, never invented and never quietly rounded to zero.
03
Every figure carries its source
A number without a source and an observation date does not belong on this page.