Gloki

The Global Democracy Initiative (GDI) is building Gloki: the part every democracy app is missing. One identity per person, vouched for by people who know you, on a network its members carry.

A world parliament, global citizens' assemblies, a worldwide vote on a question: each one needs a way to know that every voice belongs to one real person, counted once, in any country. Email checks, phone numbers, iris scans and passports don't work for everyone across borders. Gloki starts from people instead. You get in when four people who know you vouch for you.

The full board, kept up to date, is at globaldemocracyinitiative.org. One rule holds today: no binding vote on this network before an independent security audit, and we will publish the report.

Gloki runs on nodes: small servers that each keep a copy of the network. Contributions here pay first for node1, the Young World Federalists' node for the network, and then for more member nodes and the security work that has to come before any vote. Every expense is public on this page.

Eston McKeague leads the project and builds the Gloki app; he is President of the Young World Federalists. Ouri Poupko wrote the node Gloki runs on, and the research behind it. GDI is a project of Young World Federalists, Inc., a US nonprofit and the fiscal host of this collective.

Join the waitlist at globaldemocracyinitiative.org. Funders: [email protected].