---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- en
- mi
pretty_name: Te Pā Systems Observatory — Community Annotations
tags:
- systems-thinking
- meadows-leverage-points
- aotearoa
- new-zealand
- indigenous-data-sovereignty
size_categories:
- n<1K
---

# Te Pā Systems Observatory · Community Annotations

Public archive of community-submitted rankings of interventions against Donella
Meadows' twelve leverage points, in the Aotearoa New Zealand political-economy
context. Ranked by kaimahi (community members) through the
[Systems Observatory dashboard](https://github.com/robertmccallnz/systems-observatory).

Built under the [Māori Data Governance Model](https://www.kahuiraraunga.io/) of
Te Kāhui Raraunga. Public, aggregated, non-personal data only.

## Schema (JSON Lines)

Each row in `annotations.jsonl`:

| field | type | notes |
|---|---|---|
| `id` | string | UUID |
| `created_at` | string | ISO-8601 UTC |
| `handle` | string | ≤ 80 chars, any pseudonym |
| `leverage_point` | int | 1–12 (12 shallowest, 1 deepest) |
| `tier` | string | Meadows tier name |
| `intervention` | string | one-sentence proposal, ≤ 240 chars |
| `rank` | int | 1 (surface tweak) – 5 (paradigm shift) |
| `whakapapa` | string | prior intervention cited, ≤ 500 chars |
| `reasoning` | string | ≤ 1200 chars |

## Licence

CC BY 4.0 — please cite Te Pā Systems Observatory when you re-use the archive.