There will be no global democracy without technology.
We are building the part every democracy app is missing: one real person, one vote, on a network its members carry.
Gloki is the foundation we are building: one identity per person, vouched for by people who know you, with your own record that you control.
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We got the connection. We did not get the say.
“The Web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect—to help people work together—and not as a technical toy.”
In the US, people reported losing $7.2 billion to crypto investment fraud in 2025. Many people believe feeds tuned for anger pulled us apart. The evidence is mixed.
A vote only counts if it comes from one real person. Online, one person can make a hundred accounts.
Some online tools check that with an email address or a phone number. Others use iris scans, passports or crypto deposits. Across borders, none of these works for everyone.
Technology is not going away, and global problems do not stop at borders. So we are building the good version, starting from people.
What we're building
Climate, pandemics and war do not stop at borders. People who work for a democratic world have proposed answers: a world parliament, global citizens' assemblies, worldwide votes on a question. Each one needs something first: a way to know that each voice belongs to one real person, counted once, in any country.
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One person, one vote
Vouching in test. Voting planned.
You will get in when four people who know you vouch for you. To vouch means to confirm that you are a real person. No ID papers, no face scans, no tokens, nothing to buy.
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Your own record
Planned
We are building a record for each person that they control, not a company. A group will share only what belongs to the group.
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A network its members carry
Planned
We want nodes run by members, not by one company. A node is a small server that keeps a copy of the network. Later, where the internet fails, messages could travel over radio. That part is still research.
True today, and still being built
Only the rows marked Live work today. If a row does not say Live, Gloki does not do it yet. We change this board when something changes.
Last updated: 29 October 2026.
- Live
- In test
- Planned
- Research
Live
- A demo of the democracy app. Seeded data, runs in your browser. Open the demo.
- A node developers can run on their own computer. For building and testing apps. It is not safe to run in public yet. How the node works.
In test
- Sign-up with a key, three kinds of account, one shared forum. Not yet: today the key works like a password: whoever types it in is you.
- Getting verified by people who know you. In the test version you ask someone who is already verified. The aim is four people who know you; the network does not enforce that yet.
- Joining a community. Works in the test version, in a technical way for now.
Planned
- Your own record, which you control. For now, records are kept on the project's servers.
- Nodes hosted by members. The node is not safe to run in public yet.
- Nobody can act as you. Every action will be signed with a key only you hold. Not yet: today the network checks no signatures. This needs more builders. The known gaps.
- Nobody can quietly rewrite the record. Copies will be kept by many members, so a change gets caught.
- Nobody can read your ballot. Voting is not part of the beta.
- You can leave and take your identity with you.
- Losing your phone doesn't lose your vote. The people who vouched for you will be able to help you back in.
Research
- Messages over radio where there is no internet. We are still finding out if it can work.
A rule we keep today
There will be no binding vote on this network before an independent security audit. A binding vote is any vote whose result we present as a decision of the members. We will publish the full audit report, including any problems not yet fixed.
The beta
The beta is the first group of people on Gloki. It is free: nothing to pay, no tokens, nothing to buy.
- Who it is for: world citizens, starting with the Young World Federalists' chapters and others who already work across borders. Anyone can join the waitlist.
- What you do: make a key, get vouched for by four people who know you, and post in one shared forum. Discussing and voting together come later.
- Who vouches first: the first few members vouch for each other, starting with the two of us.
- When it opens: once your phone can sign what you do, so nobody else can act as you. We will write to everyone on the waitlist then.
Before you join. Ouri Poupko runs the beta's node on Google Cloud. Until encryption is built, the project team can see your data.
Three ways to take part
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Solve global issues
For world federalists, academics and anyone who wants a say in problems no single country can solve. We write when the beta opens, and you can ask people you know to vouch for you.
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Build digital democracy
For people building democracy apps, civic tech teams and researchers who run assemblies. Technical notes as we build, and a way to tell us what your app needs.
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Carry the network
For people with a server, a spare computer or a Raspberry Pi. Developers can run the node on their own computer today. A node in public is not safe yet, so we record your interest and write when it is.
Register interest
Funders: to talk about supporting this work, write to hello@globaldemocracyinitiative.org.
Who we are
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Eston McKeague
Leads the project and builds the Gloki app. President of the Young World Federalists.
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Ouri Poupko
Wrote the node Gloki runs on, and the research behind it.
We are two volunteers, and for now the two of us make the decisions. Builders who join are welcome in that discussion.
GDI is a project of Young World Federalists, Inc., a nonprofit registered in the United States. It is GDI's legal and financial home.
GDI began in 2021. Read where this comes from.
GDI began in 2021 as a coalition of organisations working toward global democracy. That coalition is no longer active. Its motto still holds: “Assume global responsibility.”
In 2024 we published a white paper, Gloki: Global Digital Voter Identity. Some of its ideas have changed as we built it. The paper describes some things the app does not do, and the beta now tests vouching by people who know you. Where the paper and this page differ, this page tells you what is true now.
Read the 2021 concept and the 2024 white paper (PDF).