{"id":116,"date":"2026-01-27T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:26:05","slug":"agora","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"AGORA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<div class=\"gb-element-3735c808\">\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/en\/\" title=\"AGORA \u2013 global public square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-media-872a2b4e\" alt=\"AGORA \u2013 global public square\" src=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora-global-public-square.png\" title=\"agora-global-public-square\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora-global-public-square.png 480w, https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora-global-public-square-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/councils.united.earth\/en\/\" title=\"COUNCILS \u2013 ethics, science, culture \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-media-9a117b40\" alt=\"COUNCILS \u2013 ethics, science, culture\" src=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/councils-ethics-science-culture.png\" title=\"councils-ethics-science-culture\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/councils-ethics-science-culture.png 480w, https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/councils-ethics-science-culture-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/parties.united.earth\/en\/\" title=\"PARTIES \u2013 nation-state consent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-media-3f61d393\" alt=\"PARTIES \u2013 nation-state consent\" src=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/parties-nation-state-consent.png\" title=\"parties-nation-state consent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/parties-nation-state-consent.png 480w, https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/parties-nation-state-consent-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/init.united.earth\/en\/\" title=\"INIT \u2013 system development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-media-5c7d0fe5\" alt=\"INIT \u2013 system development \" src=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/init-system-development.png\" title=\"init-system-development\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/init-system-development.png 480w, https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/init-system-development-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"gb-text gb-text-62bbffa7\">AGORA<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-11e4676e\">This is the entrance to AGORA \u2014 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 proto-version of <a href=\"\/en\/demo\/u\/\">AGORA<\/a> by becoming an Earth Citizen (EC), our symbolic proto-version of the emerging fundamental civil status within the global society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-01374f3a\">Entrance to AGORA \u2014 a public space for global discussion and democratic coordination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-accordion gb-accordion-0395c294\">\n<div class=\"gb-accordion__item gb-accordion__item-b2489b05\">\n<div role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"gb-accordion__toggle gb-accordion__toggle-41618d20\" id=\"gb-accordion-toggle-41618d20\">\n<span class=\"gb-text gb-text-9fd36209\">Read more<\/span>\n\n\n\n<span class=\"gb-accordion__toggle-icon gb-accordion__toggle-icon-c286bb07\"><span class=\"gb-accordion__toggle-icon-open\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" viewBox=\"0 0 256 256\"><rect width=\"256\" height=\"256\" fill=\"none\"><\/rect><polyline points=\"208 96 128 176 48 96\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"16\"><\/polyline><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"gb-accordion__toggle-icon-close\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" viewBox=\"0 0 256 256\"><rect width=\"256\" height=\"256\" fill=\"none\"><\/rect><polyline points=\"48 160 128 80 208 160\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"16\"><\/polyline><\/svg><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-accordion__content\" id=\"gb-accordion-content-7cc5e5a7\">\n<h3 class=\"gb-text gb-text-5f6c9a7d\">Purpose<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-8344e771\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"gb-text\">AGORA is a vision for a <strong>structural alternative<\/strong> to today\u2019s biased, corporate\u2011driven social media platforms and privately controlled AI systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">Its purpose is to provide a <strong>truly public civic space<\/strong> for the whole Earth society \u2014 publicly owned, democratically governed, and designed to support informed collective decision\u2011making on shared global challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"gb-text\">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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New public institutions must begin outside the official political realm before they can accumulate legitimacy, participation, and recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-text gb-text-67d7d7da\">Structural foundations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-26e67dee\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"gb-text\">AGORA is based on two structural insights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\"><strong>1. Education must be structurally and transparently integrated with governance<\/strong><br>Political decision\u2011making 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\"><strong>2. Political parties must be structurally separated from governance<\/strong><br>Political parties are, by their nature, containers for cultural identities \u2014 combinations of ethnicity, nation, ideology, and religion. As such, they belong to the identity domain, not the governance domain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"gb-text\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">AGORA therefore enables direct, knowledge\u2011weighted democratic decision\u2011making 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.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-text gb-text-af19664d\">Main tasks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-0b565a96\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"gb-text\">AGORA is designed to support:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Learning through a shared, publicly (by the COUNCILS) maintained knowledge base<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knowledge verification (levels 0\u201310) on each topic, structured by the Political Area Index (PAI)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Global discussion of common challenges and proposals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Structured proposal\u2011making and refinement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knowledge\u2011weighted direct voting in local, regional, sub-blocal, blocal, and global parliaments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-text gb-text-8ef0572c\">Activity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-4f7df241\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"gb-text\">Participation in AGORA focuses on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Public deliberation on shared issues<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engagement with arguments, evidence, and counter\u2011arguments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contribution to a common civic discourse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"gb-text\">AGORA is not intended for private communication, personal or commercial or other kinds of promotion, or identity\u2011based mobilisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-text gb-text-284b4920\">Participation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-f1215882\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"gb-text\">Participation in AGORA is a <strong>right derived from Earth Citizenship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">Differentiation within AGORA concerns <strong>function and responsibility<\/strong>, not political rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>All Earth citizens have the right to access and participate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participation is independent of nationality, culture, religion, ideology according to the GOV\/\/ID principle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alignment with basic code of conduct is required, including respect for other peoples&#8217; right to private identity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-text gb-text-9d817f1f\">Onboarding and requirements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-284c9a17\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"gb-text\">Minimum requirement for participation in United Earth is <strong>Earth Citizenshi<\/strong>p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">Earth Citizenship is both a practical onboarding mechanism and a political act expressing the claim to a real global civic institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">This recommendation exists to protect personal safety and freedom of expression in a project that challenges identity\u2011based power structures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"gb-text\">In the early phases of AGORA, participants are encouraged to use a <strong>pseudonym as their public display name<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Legal name is required for Earth Citizenship membership and verification, but is not shown publicly unless the member actively chooses to do so<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Members control this setting via their membership profile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/united.earth\/en\/website\/participation-principles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Participation principles<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/united.earth\/en\/what-2\/#agora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More about AGORA<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"\/en\/demo\/u\/\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" class=\"gb-media-4f2b00ae\" alt=\"AGORA \u2013 a global &amp; truly public square\" title=\"AGORA\" src=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora.webp 2000w, https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora-100x100.webp 100w, https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agora-1536x1536.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGORA This is the entrance to AGORA \u2014 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 proto-version of AGORA by becoming an Earth Citizen (EC), our symbolic proto-version of the emerging fundamental civil status &#8230; <a title=\"AGORA\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/en\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AGORA\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-116","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":98,"href":"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.united.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}