About the Platform

8 billion world citizens, each becoming a UN Secretary-General.

“We the Peoples of the United Nations…”Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations

The UN Charter begins with “We the Peoples of the United Nations.”

It is a declaration that the UN belongs to world citizens, not only to member governments.

Yet scrutinizing global public funds has long been the preserve of a small circle of officials and diplomats. UN senior staff and the personnel of 193 member-state missions simply cannot individually verify the tens of billions of dollars in programmes carried out each year — the structural limits are clear. Judging the effect of a single programme requires reading its budget, beneficiary countries, performance indicators and possible overlaps together, but that material has been scattered and written in technical language, making it hard for citizens to examine directly.

This platform opens that review process to all 8 billion world citizens. It collects original public data as published — IATI international aid data and official UN financial statistics, the original text of General Assembly and Security Council resolutions from the UN Digital Library, SDG indicators from the UN Statistics Division, and crisis data from OCHA, UNHCR, GDACS and the World Bank — and publishes it without artificial estimation or processing. English-language originals are translated into Korean, and an AI adviser breaks down technical programmes and resolutions item by item. The judgement itself belongs to citizens.

In the Secretary-General's Office, examine the UN Charter and the senior leadership's priorities; in the agency profiles, listen to AI briefings; track the budget flow; check your own contribution down to the cent with the tax receipt; review SDG progress and global threat levels; vote directly on programme budgets and General Assembly/Security Council resolutions; rebuild the budget yourself; and send the opinions you form directly to the UN missions and the Secretary-General's Office.

Every one of those screens is available in Korean and in all six UN official languages — English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian. The language switcher at the top of each page keeps you exactly where you are and simply changes the language, with Arabic rendered right-to-left. Interface text, programme titles and AI adviser briefings are all translated, so citizens everywhere read the same data in their own language.

Start here to see what your taxes contribute to the UN and international organizations, and what you can do, starting now, for a better future for the planet.

We are all AI Secretaries-General.

This site has no affiliation with the United Nations or any international organization. It is run by VANK (Voluntary Agency Network of Korea), the Cyber Diplomatic Corps, on the belief that every person in the world can become an AI Secretary-General and change the world together.

Agencies covered
15
Programmes covered
800
AI briefing types
6 (programme · agency · leader · resolution · SDG · Korea)
Original sources
IATI · UN · OCHA · World Bank

15 Core Features

Implementation status is shown as-is. All 15 features are live on this platform.

  1. 01

    My UN Tax Receipt, Reverse-Calculated

    Reverse-calculates, down to the cent, how the taxes you pay flow through the UN regular budget to each agency. Uses only Korea's net assessed contribution, population and official UN exchange rate figures from original sources.

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  2. 02

    Track the Entire UN Budget Flow

    Traces the agency → sector → programme structure through a simplified flow diagram, separating inter-agency transfers and headquarters common costs to calculate net expenditure. Includes a drill-down page for each agency.

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  3. 03

    Secretary-General's Office

    Summarizes the UN Charter, the Secretary-General's five core priorities and challenges, and the UN system's organizational status, total budget, history and crises on a single screen.

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  4. 04

    Major Agency Profiles & AI Briefing

    Introduces the official achievements and latest media coverage of 18 major agencies, with an AI adviser briefing each one live across five items: overview, activities, beneficiaries, spending and issues.

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  5. 05

    SDG Progress Tracker — All 17 Goals

    Publishes progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals using original UN Statistics Division and World Bank indicators, with an AI adviser briefing the achievements and limits of each goal.

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  6. 06

    Global Threat Monitor

    Aggregates public APIs in real time — OCHA humanitarian financing (FTS), UNHCR refugee data, GDACS disaster alerts, and World Bank/NASA climate indicators — to show crisis status and funding gaps.

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  7. 07

    Policy Budget Review — Vote Increase, Maintain or Cut

    For every programme, review the AI adviser's five-item briefing and vote to increase, maintain or cut its budget. Tallies are published live.

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  8. 08

    Assembly & Resolution Citizen Vote

    Collects General Assembly and Security Council resolutions and country-by-country voting records (193 states) in real time from the UN Digital Library and UN News. An AI adviser explains the background, content, effect, voting alignment and issues of each resolution, and citizens cast their own vote on it.

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  9. 09

    Opinions LIVE

    Citizen evaluation results and one-line opinions are tallied and published live. A fiscal traffic-light view shows the state of global evaluation at a glance.

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  10. 10

    UN Leadership & Mission Tracker

    Monitors the activity of the Secretary-General, agency heads and member-state missions, with an AI adviser briefing each leader's activity across five items.

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  11. 11

    Rebuild the Budget

    Adjust each agency's budget by up to ±50% and see the change in net expenditure structure and per-capita tax burden instantly. All amounts are shown alongside the local-currency equivalent.

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  12. 12

    Send a Message to the Missions & Secretary-General's Office

    Beyond budget allocation, choose from policy topics — resolutions, SDG implementation, threat response, UN reform and human rights — write an opinion, and send it directly to the official intake channels of the UN missions in New York, Geneva, UNESCO and Vienna, and the Secretary-General's Office.

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  13. 13

    Korea's Global Contribution — ODA · Public Donations

    Publishes government ODA budgets, UN assessed contributions, and public donations to organizations such as World Vision, Good Neighbors, UNICEF Korea and Save the Children Korea side by side with unaltered original figures, briefed by an AI adviser.

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  14. 14

    Original Source & Citation Package

    Publishes the original source URL, collection time and SHA-256 data fingerprint for every figure. Coverage and non-coverage by agency are also disclosed transparently.

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  15. 15

    Six UN Official Languages

    Beyond Korean, the site is published in all six UN official languages — English (/en), French (/fr), Spanish (/es), Arabic (/ar), Chinese (/zh) and Russian (/ru). A language switcher at the top of every page keeps you on the same screen, Arabic is displayed right-to-left, and UI text, programme titles and AI adviser briefings are all translated. Search engines are also told "this page exists in these languages," so readers anywhere land on their own edition.

How the AI adviser briefs you

Example · UNICEF / WFP emergency humanitarian relief and food assistance programme
🎯 Programme purpose
Provides emergency relief food to children and displaced people in conflict and disaster areas, and improves malnutrition.
👥 Beneficiaries
Displaced children and residents whose survival is threatened by war and climate disasters in Gaza, Ukraine, Africa and elsewhere.
📊 Performance indicators
Timeliness of relief supplies reaching the field after a disaster, and recovery rates in beneficiaries' survival and nutrition.
⚖️ Issues to watch
Preventing excessive administrative overhead, ensuring field delivery rates, and linking one-off relief to lasting self-reliance infrastructure.

AI adviser briefings come in six types: programme briefings (purpose · beneficiaries · performance indicators · issues), agency briefings (overview · activities · beneficiaries · spending · issues), leader briefings (activity summary · key activities · beneficiaries · impact · issues), resolution briefings (background · content · effect · voting alignment · issues), SDG goal briefings (progress · achievements · limits), and Korea contribution briefings (viewed by agency-level budget breakdown). Every briefing is generated from original sources only, and never invents a figure absent from the source.

The lineage of this project

  1. 1999
    VANK, the Cyber Diplomatic Corps, launches

    Recognizing that Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff alone could not reach 8 billion people with accurate information about Korea, VANK began training teenagers and young adults as civilian digital diplomats.

  2. 2026
    AI Lawmaker

    Opened domestic fiscal democracy by building a platform where 50 million citizens directly monitor the government's expenditure budget.

  3. Now
    AI Secretary-General

    The same principle is extended to the whole planet. All 8 billion citizens become reviewers of the UN budget. It is a digital realization of the UN Charter's spirit of sovereignty resting with the people.

Original Sources · Data Fingerprint

Each programme amount is the sum of IATI activity budget items denominated in USD whose budget-period start year falls in the target year. Programmes without such a value in the original source are not included.

Data source
IATI Datastore API
Collected at
2026-08-14 09:01:56 UTC
Target budget years
2024, 2025, 2026
Publisher filter
XM-DAC-41* + UN 체제 명시 목록(23곳)
API requests
79
Programmes included
800

Sources used for the tax receipt calculation

Each agency line in the receipt is an illustrative allocation of the contribution above, apportioned by IATI net-expenditure share — it does not mean the UN regular budget is actually distributed this way.

Data fingerprint (SHA-256)
6d2345cc25b2d339c036d5c9c296cbc16c418895fb6794e18fd5da332863959cOpen original endpoint

Coverage by agency

AgencyReported activitiesProgrammes includedNet expenditure
World Food Programme
XM-DAC-41140
1,33668$31.57B
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
XM-DAC-41130
2,73748$18.04B
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
XM-DAC-41121
1,21324$17.35B
UNICEF
XM-DAC-41122
18,41765$13.59B
United Nations Development Programme
XM-DAC-41114
16,39694$5.36B
World Health Organization
XM-DAC-928
31,24828$2.76B
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
XM-DAC-47066
5,23253$2.16B
United Nations Office for Project Services
41AAA
1,90931$1.20B
UN Women
XM-DAC-41146
1,16788$869.6M
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
XM-DAC-41127
4943$823.3M
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
XM-DAC-41304
3,32998$482.4M
UN Environment Programme
XM-DAC-41116
8755$452.5M
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
XM-DAC-41123
2,43079$387.6M
UN Trade and Development
XM-DAC-962
1615$13.7M
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) Secretariat
XM-DAC-41110
1,22811$12.4M

Agencies without a listed figure

These agencies report activities to IATI, but no USD-denominated budget item for the target years appears in the source data. Rather than estimate, we leave the figure blank.

  • XM-DAC-4130111,468 activities
  • International Labour Organization (ILO)11,462 activities
  • XM-DAC-411081,280 activities
  • United Nations Population Fund953 activities
  • United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)710 activities
  • 41120353 activities
  • XM-DAC-41317350 activities
  • XM-DAC-45001102 activities
  • United Nations Development Coordination Office1 activities

Principles

Original figures only

Every number is transcribed from a published UN or IATI record. We never estimate, interpolate or rescale.

No verdicts on waste

When several agencies run programmes with the same purpose, we state the fact. Whether that is duplication or necessary redundancy is for citizens to decide.

Traceable by design

Each dataset carries its source URL, collection timestamp and a SHA-256 fingerprint so anyone can re-verify it.

Language is not a gate

Technical programme documents and resolutions are explained item by item by an AI adviser, in both Korean and English.