AGORA
This is the entrance to AGORA — the project for a new global digital public square. A space for learning, discussion, proposal-making, and democratic coordination across all levels of the global society. Start using the current version of AGORA by becoming an Earth Citizen
Entrance to AGORA — a public space for global discussion and democratic coordination.
Purpose
AGORA is a vision for a structural alternative to today’s biased, corporate‑driven social media platforms and privately controlled AI systems.
Its purpose is to provide a truly public civic space for the whole Earth society — publicly owned, democratically governed, and designed to support informed collective decision‑making on shared global challenges.
AGORA is not intended as a media platform, a private social network, or an advocacy tool. It will be developed as an institutional public space for governance-relevant civic deliberation.
In its early phases, AGORA is initiated and hosted by the United Earth Association (UEa) and the United Earth Councils Association (UEc), two independent organisations registered under Norwegian jurisdiction.
New public institutions must begin outside the official political realm before they can accumulate legitimacy, participation, and recognition.
The explicit purpose of AGORA is therefore to transition from a civil-society initiative into a genuinely public, democratically governed global institution, once sufficient participation and mandate have been established.
Structural foundations
AGORA is based on two structural insights:
1. Education must be structurally and transparently integrated with governance
Political decision‑making in a complex, interconnected world requires shared, continuously maintained knowledge systems. Education, expertise, and public reasoning must therefore be structurally connected to governance, not treated as external inputs.
2. Political parties must be structurally separated from governance
Political parties are, by their nature, containers for cultural identities — combinations of ethnicity, nation, ideology, and religion. As such, they belong to the identity domain, not the governance domain.
In a GOV//ID system, parties are not abolished, but structurally relocated. They may organise, advocate, educate, and mobilise within the identity layer, but they do not control or mediate voting, representation, or legislative power.
AGORA therefore enables direct, knowledge‑weighted democratic decision‑making on all topics, at all levels of governance. In this system, all cultural identity is a private matter, and how they indirectly inform personal opinions is up to each one of us. The crucial part is this: IDs can no longer be used explicitly as part of political reasoning.
Main tasks
AGORA is designed to support:
- Learning through a shared, publicly (by the COUNCILS) maintained knowledge base
- Knowledge verification (levels 0–10) on each topic, structured by the Political Area Index (PAI)
- Global discussion of common challenges and proposals
- Structured proposal‑making and refinement
- Knowledge‑weighted direct voting in local, regional, sub-bloc, bloc, and global parliaments
Activity
Participation in AGORA focuses on:
- Public deliberation on shared issues
- Engagement with arguments, evidence, and counter‑arguments
- Contribution to a common civic discourse
AGORA is not intended for private communication, personal networking, or identity‑based mobilisation.
Participation
Participation in AGORA is a right derived from Earth Citizenship.
Differentiation within AGORA concerns function and responsibility, not political rights.
- All Earth citizens have the right to access and participate
- Participation is independent of nationality, culture, religion, ideology, or political orientation
- No ideological alignment is required
Onboarding and requirements
Minimum requirement for participation in United Earth is Earth Citizenship — a symbolic, one‑time membership (NOK 50 / ~USD 4).
Earth Citizenship is both a practical onboarding mechanism and a political act expressing the claim to a real global civic institution.
This recommendation exists to protect personal safety and freedom of expression in a project that challenges identity‑based power structures.
In the early phases of AGORA, participants are encouraged to use a pseudonym as their public display name.
- Legal name is required for Earth Citizenship membership and verification, but is not shown publicly unless the member actively chooses to do so
- Members control this setting via their membership profile
