ZarishSphere Foundation builds open-source Digital Public Infrastructure for forcibly displaced populations. Our core product is the Guideline-to-Action (G2A) Engine — it takes international health, protection, and humanitarian standards (WHO, UNHCR, SPHERE, ISO) and turns them into deployable digital assets: forms, workflows, apps, and decision rules that work in the field, not just on paper.
| 🌍 Deployment context | Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh — Rohingya FDMN population + host community |
| 🚀 Scale intent | Global from day one |
| ⚖️ License | Apache 2.0 (code) · CC BY 4.0 (documentation) |
| 💸 Cost model | Zero-budget, always-free-tier infrastructure only — see 04-FREE-TIER-STACK-MATRIX |
| 🧩 Governance | GitHub-as-government — every decision is a reviewable PR |
| Repo | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
docs.zarishsphere |
Single source of truth — architecture, standards mapping, governance |  |
zarishsphere |
The platform itself | |
zarish-index |
40+ domain global standards index | |
zarish-standards |
Standards classification registry | |
Every repo in zsdotcom inherits the same community health files, label set, and security
baseline from this repo. Dependency updates, secret scanning, code scanning, and release
changelogs run unattended — no paid tier, no seat licenses, no card on file.
We treat every contributor as a domain expert in their area — clinicians, humanitarian protection officers, translators, and developers all shape this project through the same PR-review process.
See the org-wide CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md before opening your first PR.
Built by a solo-founder, four-owner foundation — reviewed in the open, deployed at zero cost.