Infrastructure that makes action measurable
Digital Public Infrastructure is the shared, open layer of identity, registries and verification that lets people, cities and institutions prove what they have done and have it recognised anywhere. It is GloCha's differentiator.
We track the goals. We miss the action.
Climate pledges are tracked meticulously at the level of states. Below that level, almost nothing is captured in a form anyone else can trust: the citizen who changed how they travel, the school that ran a programme, the city that met a target early.
The result is a verification gap: funders cannot find credible local impact, communities cannot get credit for real work, and the same data is collected over and over in incompatible silos.
Unverifiable claims
Self-reported impact without evidence is easy to dispute and easy to inflate.
Fragmented data
Every programme builds its own tracker; none of them talk to each other.
Excluded participants
The people doing the most local work have the least access to recognition systems.
An open stack, not a closed platform
GloCha builds and convenes public infrastructure rather than a product. The components are open, interoperable and governed jointly with partners, so cities, NGOs and universities can adopt them without becoming dependent on a vendor.
The stack starts with a portable identity, records action in a shared registry, and attaches verification that others can check independently.
- Local action becomes visible to international funders and institutions.
- Contributions stay portable. They belong to the person, not the platform.
- Programmes can be audited without re-collecting the same evidence.
- Open standards let others build on the stack rather than duplicate it.
Why open infrastructure
If we want billions of people to act, we cannot ask each of them to prove it to a different system. The infrastructure has to be public, open and shared, the way roads are.
What the stack is made of
Five layers, each usable on its own and stronger together.
Digital identity
A portable identity and action passport. People and organisations progress through trust levels (L0-L4) as their contributions are verified, without surrendering control of their data.
GloCha IDChallenges mapping
A citizen science tool for establishing what a place actually needs. Communities map local environmental and social challenges, and those maps become the shared evidence base that everything downstream is measured against. Built with research partners under the EU Interreg Central Europe project JETforCE and in pilot use today.
Challenges Mapping ToolOpen the pilot toolRegistries
A shared ledger of pledges and actions: submitted, verified and made visible. One record, readable by every partner that needs it.
The Action RegistryVerification
Evidence attached to claims, checked by accountable parties, and independently inspectable afterwards.
Evidence, checkedOpen standards
Shared schemas and interfaces so other organisations can plug in, extend the stack, or run their own instance.
Built to be built on
Trust you can climb
Identity here isn't a login. People and organisations rise through trust levels as their contributions are verified, and the level travels with them.
L0 · Anonymous
Browse and explore. No identity required.
L1 · Registered
A basic GloCha ID is created and claimed.
L2 · Verified
Email and organisation verified; first actions logged.
L3 · Trusted
A track record of verified actions, attested by peers.
L4 · Anchor
An institutional trust anchor that can verify others.
qIO: innovating the governance and financing of Digital Public Infrastructure
From digital infrastructure to collective intelligence, coordinated action and shared prosperity.
Digital Public Infrastructure has the potential to transform how people, communities, institutions and organisations collaborate to address global challenges. Yet realising this potential requires more than technology. It requires new approaches to mobilising resources, coordinating stakeholders and governing shared digital infrastructure in the public interest.
The qIO, the DPI Resource Mobilisation and Governance Innovation Partnership, is GloCha's framework for advancing this transformation.
By connecting philanthropic capital, public institutions, private sector innovation, research organisations and civil society, qIO aims to develop innovative financing and governance models that make inclusive, interoperable and impact oriented DPI accessible and scalable.
From partnership to measurable impact
Through initiatives such as the Global Challenges Action ID, the Global Challenges Action Registry, the UNOOSA DPI Satellite concept and GoodLifeForAll, GloCha seeks to demonstrate how digital infrastructure can connect local action with global cooperation and sustainable development. Our ambition is to help unlock the institutional, financial and technological conditions for a new generation of collective action.
Three interconnected priorities
Mobilising resources
Connecting philanthropy, public funding, corporate partnerships and impact investment with shared digital infrastructure and measurable public value.
Innovating governance
Developing transparent, inclusive and participatory models for multi stakeholder collaboration, collective action and shared accountability.
Accelerating implementation
Supporting demonstrator projects, strategic partnerships and pathways for scaling DPI solutions that empower people and communities.
Built with, not for
The stack is developed with academic and technical partners who share governance of the standards.