Open Source · Free · Humanitarian

Your identity
belongs to you.

Memdeklaro empowers people to self-declare their own identity without third parties. Open source, non-government and non-corporate.

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No central database
No third parties
Self-declared
Example Memdeklaro self-declared ID

The Freedom to

Be Yourself

Non-government

The Problem

Millions Are
Locked Out of
Their Own Lives

The unseen dangers of the state monopoly on identity

Nation-states routinely refuse to issue birth certificates, national ID cards and passports for people, most often due to their circumstances of birth, rather than their own actions as an adult.

Lack of government ID currently excludes millions of people from employment, housing, healthcare, education and more.

Currently there are no alternatives, no appeals, no last resort. Innocent people are shut out of society for life, with no way to earn freedom.

State Monopoly

Nation-states hold an exclusionary monopoly on identity. You are judged not on your character, beliefs, and actions, but solely on where you were born and who your parents were.

Vicious Circle

It's illegal not to have ID, but no jurisdiction agrees to issue one for you. There are no last resorts, no alternatives, no way to earn a legal identity from scratch as an adult.

Shut Out of Society

Millions of people worldwide are unfairly excluded from employment, housing, healthcare and education, despite their skills or efforts.
Banned not due to their actions, but due to accident of birth.

The Right to Exist

"You may think economic exclusion - banned from employment, housing, healthcare, education, banking, travel, contracts, mail, sim cards and more - would be a punishment for only the most severe of crimes. But for stateless people, refugees, victims of abuse and people who weren’t registered at birth, it is a punishment for being born."

Surveillance and exclusion: The dangers of the state monopoly on identity
The Solution

Your identity,
Your choice.

Memdeklaro is a self-declaration of identity, which means it does not require permission from third parties such as birth countries, birth cultures or birth parents.

Universally accessible
No third parties
Free and open source
Example Memdeklaro self-declared ID

What It Contains

Self-chosen first name

Antaŭnomo

Self-chosen surname

Nomo

Birth date

Naskiĝdato

Photo (35mm × 45mm)

Foto

Signature

Subskribo

ID number

Numero

Notes field

Notoj

What It Does NOT Contain

Place of birth

Escape from hostile cultures

Citizenship or stateless status

You are not the property of the state

Parents' names

Cut ties with abusers

Choose your own path

"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb."

How to Make Yours

1

Use the Generator

Fill out the form below. Everything runs locally in your browser - no data is sent anywhere.

2

Print or Go Digital

Print as a business card (85.6mm × 54mm), order a CR-80 card, or simply use it digitally.

3

Live Freely

Live free from state surveillance and censorship. You are the authority over your own life.

Generator

Make Your
Self-Declaration

Fill out the form below, then print your self-declaration as a business card or CR-80 card.

Memdeklaro de identeco

Self-declaration of identity

No Database • Locally Generated

Alternative Non-Government IDs

World Passport

Apply for a World Passport using only your fingerprints. No existing government ID required.

Digitalcourage ID

Purchase a physical Digitalcourage ID card under your self-chosen name.

Disclaimer

ID requirements do more harm than good and should not be seen as a viable solution for trust or authentication.

For most of human history, people did not need a signed certificate from the King to order to live their lives, and self-declaration was the norm.

Even today, transactions can be done anonymously, under a self-chosen name, or via a bearer instrument such as cash or Monero, or a ticket or membership card. Authentication can be achieved via passwords, keys or signatures, and trust via reputation, memberships, deposits or escrows.

Philosophy

Live the Three Freedoms

Freedom of Name

Choose your own name, independent of birth culture, birth parents, or state bureaucrats.

Freedom of Belief

Live how you want and believe what you want, free from the restrictions of your place of birth.

Freedom of Association

Define your own culture, home and personal ties, instead of being trapped by accident of birth.

Building a Fairer Future

Memdeklaro positions itself as a humanitarian alternative to the exclusionary state monopoly on identity.

Memdeklaro developed the self-declaration of identity as a universally accessible identity document, which does not require the permission of a nation-state, birth culture or birth parents.

This helps to build a free world where personal beliefs, character and effort are more important than where you were born or who you were born to.

"The choice of your own name and renunciation of your circumstances of birth is a liberating act of individualism, where your ideals, actions and efforts matter more than the situation that you were arbitrarily born into."

Further Reading

Learn More About
Freedom of Identity

Passports Were a “Temporary” War Measure

It takes less than a century, it seems, to see the absence of freedom as a natural condition.

Speranta Dumitru
During World War II, we did have something to hide

Identification is an instrument of social control, an instrument of surveillance. During World War II, we were very much aware of this fact.

Hans de Zwart
The Little-Known Passport That Protected 450,000 Refugees

Between 1922 and 1938, the “Nansen Passport” allowed stateless people to make a new life.

Cara Giaimo
Establishing identity is a vital, risky and changing business

In the 19th and 20th centuries the power to issue legal identity became a state monopoly. When states do not properly apply this power, people suffer.

The Economist
Proving who I am: the plight of people in detention without proof of legal identity

The absence of any formal identification, be it a birth certificate, passport or drivers’ licence can leave individuals in an invidious position.

Vicki Prais
Exclusion and identity: life without ID

Identity documents can be sources of exclusion in different ways. It can range from people not having an ID at all, to issues with using the ID.

Privacy International
With each person left living on the streets, we are losing as a society

The depersonalisation of concrete problems is always dangerous, as it is easier to reject an action, or put aside an article or a letter, than to turn one’s back on an actual person asking for help.

Petr Baroch
KYC: The Rarely Discussed Danger

The cultural discrimination and mistrust against people who don’t have government ID is illogical and makes an already bad situation even more difficult.

Anarkio
What’s in a name? The case for inclusivity through anonymity

“Those are the voices we should be amplifying in society, not suppressing,” said Astrella.

Common Thread
Free and open source

One World,
One Humankind.

No one should be punished for their circumstances of birth.
Self-declaration of identity means freedom for everyone.

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