Gloki Line map · beta
You get in because people who know you vouch for you.
Gloki is a network for deciding things together across borders, built by the Global Democracy Initiative. Four people who know you confirm you are real: no ID papers, no face scans, nothing to pay. It is in test now. Pick your line and join the waitlist.
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The stations: how you get in
Every stop is a real screen in the test version. Nothing here asks for your papers, your face or your money.
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1 Create a key
Gloki has no passwords. One tap makes your key and signs you in.
Right now the key works like a password: whoever types it in is you. We say so on the screen where you make it.
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2 Save your key
It is the only way back into your account. Gloki cannot reset it, so you copy it or download it before you go on.
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3 Say what you are
A person, an organisation, or someone who will host a node. An organisation is declared, not checked, in this test.
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4 Four people vouch for you
People who know you confirm you are a real person. That, and nothing you pay or upload, is what makes your voice count. You ask someone you know; a video call and a daily session are there for the rest.
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5 Verified
Verified everywhere on Gloki, and able to vouch for the next person. Four approvals is the whole of it.
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6 The forum
One conversation shared by everyone in the test. Post, reply, like. Your name and your country's flag, not a code.
The forum in the test version.
Three lines in
Pick the one that fits. They all arrive at the same place.
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Solve global issues first invitees
Academics and world federalists who already argue about problems no single country can fix, and want a place where a global “we” can decide something and say it out loud.
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Build digital democracy
Civic-tech people, organisers, researchers. One person, one vote. Vouching instead of ID. Talk before any vote. The mechanism is the product; help shape it while it is small.
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Contribute to a new internet planned line
People with a server. A node is a small computer that keeps a copy of the network, so that no single company has to hold it. The node software is not ready yet. Joining this line records your interest, and we write when there is something to run.
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Line status
What is running in the test, what is planned, and what comes later. We would rather say it here than have you find out.
| Service | Status | Notes |
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| Sign-up with a key, no passwords | In test | The key is not yet signed on the network; it works like a password. |
| Four people who know you vouch | In test | Ask someone, invitations, a video call, a daily session. |
| Three kinds of account | In test | Person, organisation (declared, not checked), node contributor. |
| One shared forum | In test | Post, reply, like. English only for now. |
| Your own agent holding your data | Planned | For now your data sits on the project's node. Your own agent comes with hosting. |
| Host a node | Planned | No runnable node yet. Joining the line records interest. |
| Problem → Discussion → Solutions → Vote → Mandate | Later | Comes back once the network has verified people in it. See it in the demo. |
The Global Democracy Initiative
Assume global responsibility
The Global Democracy Initiative began in 2021, when seven organisations working for global democracy agreed on a plan. People anywhere would name the problems no single country can fix, propose solutions, debate them and vote: one person, one vote. The results would be public, so that the people in power can be held to them.
A plan like that needs one thing first: knowing that each vote belongs to one real person, without asking any government for papers. In 2023 the Initiative's identity working group wrote that up as Gloki, a global voter identity.
Gloki is that plan, being built. The test version starts with the simplest part: people who know you vouch for you.
- Global democracy. Citizens can take part directly in global decisions.
- Global citizenship. Our common humanity binds us together, as one diverse human species.
- Open source innovation. We build new ways for people to cooperate, decide and act on global issues, and we share them with the world.
Where it started: the 2021 concept and the 2023 Gloki white paper (PDF). The test version has moved on from some of the paper's ideas, and the status board above is the current word.
The Global Democracy Initiative is a project of the Young World Federalists, a nonprofit registered in the United States that hosts it legally and financially.
Where to look
The full demo, with the democracy pipeline that comes back later.
The source on GitHub.
Questions, or an organisation that wants in? Write to hello@globaldemocracyinitiative.org, or reply to the first email the waitlist sends you. A person reads it.