Part 1 - What is globaldemocracy.com
globaldemocracy.com is a website and app platform for people around the globe to submit and vote on each other's ideas for improving the world.
We may live in different countries and have different cultures, but our challenges are often the same.
globaldemocracy.com is a social enterprise established to provide safe place for people to communicate away from filter bubbles and independently of commercial or political influences.
Use of the globaldemocracy.com site and app is free of charge.
It works by allowing people submit ideas of their own and/or to vote on other's ideas. Those ideas that are preferred by more people float to higher prominence, but all ideas remain on the site and app for other people to see. If you submit an idea, it will remain in the site and app for other people to vote upon, and to use for their own research, learning or browsing for intellectual entertainment.
Globaldemocracy.com is about enabling people across the globe to communicate with each other. It is a generic platform for people to share ideas and to find positive solutions on all things - including to global problems.
You will see that the platform is divided up into two parts:
This Week's ideas, where you can vote on ideas that were submitted to globaldemocracy.com over the past week. The five that are listed for voting each week are those that were lifted there by 'sifters'. 'Sifters' are any registered users who choose to lift and sift new ideas- their primary job being to weed out spam, advertising and offensive material. If you would like to help 'lift and sift', simply register to the platform and go to the Lift and Sift page. This is how the platform eliminates spam ideas before they reach the main part of the platform.
By voting in the 'This Week' section, registered users choose the idea that becomes recognized as 'Last Week's Top Idea', which is posted on the home page.
The other main part of the platform is the All Ideas section. This is a place where registered users can vote and comment on all ideas submitted to globaldemocracy.com. The more favoured ideas in 'All Ideas' will float to prominence over time. The 'All Ideas' page is intended as a research tool for casual browsers, teachers, academics, journalists and/or decision makers, so, take care with your posts and your votes - you really could be influencing the world.
The idea that receives the most votes each week becomes recognized for the next week as 'Last Week's Top Idea' posted on the home page.
The All Ideas section contains all valid ideas ever posted to the platform. It is intended as a research tool for decision makers, teachers, academics, journalists and casual browsers. Only registered users can vote and comment on ideas submitted to globaldemocracy.com. This is to reduce invalid and double voting. The idea is that the more favoured ideas in 'All Ideas' will float to prominence over time. They can be located by clicking the 'most popular' option in 'All Ideas, either for a particular category, or for a particular issue/search word.
There are some rules: Contributions that are abusive, spam or advertising are not permitted. Users who contribute such material will be deregistered.
So, enjoy! Don't forget to use the 'Search My Issue' function to find topics that interest you.
globaldemocracy.com was developed by private citizens from USA and Australia. It is intended to be owned by and for the benefit of all people and is designed to be administered as far as possible by people from around the world who chose to use the platform as registered users.
globaldemocrcy.com is a social enterprise and not associated with any political organization or movement and is not a commercial platform.
globaldemocracy.com was first launched in the United States in 2011. Several thousand people from around the world registered and posted ideas to the site, and voted on each other’s ideas. You will see some posts from back then, in the ‘All Ideas’ list. That website only platform was replaced with an upgraded and moderated site and app in August 2021. So, this is the re-emergence of a platform previously tried and tested, but now with additional features: the app, the concept of a weekly top idea, the use of sifters to weed out spam and offensive material from freshly posted ideas, and regular moderation.
Note: ideas posted prior to August 2021 show GD views (views of persons registered to GD) and votes only since August 2021. They show all-time views.
Media or other general inquires should be directed to info@globaldemocracy.com
If you have any suggestions as to how the site can be improved, please submit your idea under the GLOBALDEMOCRACY.COM idea category, for administrators and all registered users and visitors to see, and for voting and commenting upon by other users.
If you are having trouble joining or using this site or app, please email us at info@globaldemocracy.com.
This site is your global democracy. Please use it for its stated purpose - to express your voice and vote on how to deal with common challenges and solutions to the world's problems. Start now by signing up and contributing your voice and vote.