Knowledge Atlas · Reference

Glossary & ontology

Terms are defined once and translated with care — terminology must survive translation intact.

E-residency: A government-issued digital identity for non-residents, giving access to a country's online services without granting citizenship or the right to live there.
E-voting: Voting in which ballots are cast or counted electronically; remote Internet voting, as used in Estonia, is its most contested form.
Ekklesia: The sovereign assembly of Athenian citizens, which voted on laws, war and policy and elected certain officials.
Electoral reform assembly: A citizens' assembly convened to recommend changes to an electoral system, whose proposal may then be put to a public referendum.
Energy accounting: A proposed non-monetary system that measures production and distribution in units of energy, associated with Technocracy Inc.'s energy certificates.
Epistemic status: How well-supported a claim is: established, theory, disputed, hypothesis or forecast. Shown on every claim in the atlas.
Epistocracy: Rule or distribution of political power according to knowledge or competence, rather than by equal votes. The word means 'rule of the knowledgeable'.
Exit: Leaving an organisation or polity in response to dissatisfaction (Hirschman).