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Tokenized World Parliament

Ted Stalets

was born in Pana, Illinois (USA) in 1952. He received a master’s degree in mass communications from the University of Illinois before spending a corporate career with Baldwin Piano Company. From the time of his first Radio Shack TRS80 computer in the late 1970s, he has developed a deep respect for the evolving computer revolution and, more recently, the internet revolution. An avid futurist, Ted has developed several hundred websites featuring various emerging technologies geared toward the non-technical person. He served as literary agent for the first edition of Rescue Plan for Planet Earth (since rewritten and retitled World Democracy through a Global Referendum). He also developed a portable “voting booth” for the global referendum initiative, allowing the active ballot located on our home page to be multiplied many times over throughout the internet. This initiative has been corrupted and is currently being re-instituted. In 2018, Ted became President of Vote World Parliament. In 2026 he is changing the name to Tokenized World Parliament.. upgrading the voting scheme to blockchain. He now lives in Cascais, Portugal.

Jim Stark - founder of Vote World Parliament

was born in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) in 1943. He graduated from Laurentian University in 1967. In 1977, Jim founded Operation Dismantle, a nuclear disarmament organization, where he served as President and CEO until 1985 (see Cold War Blues or The Canadian Encyclopedia). In the next several decades, he and his wife Earleen owned and operated a small business called Life Profiles, taping or writing the life stories of seniors (for their children and families). In 2004, Jim founded the non-profit NGO Vote World Parliament (or VWP) and has served on the Board ever since. Jim has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction (available on Amazon), including the guide on the VWP initiative, entitled WORLD DEMOCRACY through a Global Referendum. Jim and Earleen were married in 1999. He has one daughter, Avril Foster, and two grandsons, Will and Miles.

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