What Omxus is

Everybody is human.

Press for help and the people nearby come. Omxus is that emergency network, plus the identity and voting that run it, held by you, not a company. Six ideas carry it.

The safety network

Press for help and nearby members hear it at once. The nearest people respond. Target: under 60 seconds where enough people have joined.

Proximity

Only those close to a decision, through expertise, geography or direct impact, have a voice in it.

One human, one token

One identity per person. It cannot be bought, sold or taken. Three people physically present vouch for you.

ViewSwap

Anyone who feels harmed may ask another member: “Will you live my constraints for a day?” You can say no. You can’t say no forever.

Grief to design

People are good. Systems are broken. We can fix the systems.

You hold it

No password, no central database. Your name, birth date and secret words make a key in your own browser.

The evidence

Alerting the people nearby already works.

Omxus joins proven parts. Each one has been tried somewhere.

2×
Survival when a GoodSAM volunteer accepted the alert. London and East Midlands.
43→57%
Bystander CPR after PulsePoint came to Alachua County, Florida.
<10%
Cardiac arrest survival without CPR. 40–50% with it. American Heart Association 2020.
7–14 min
Typical city ambulance response. Rural: 20–45 minutes.

The bystander effect reverses

van Bommel and colleagues (2011): when people feel others see what they do, more bystanders means more helping, not less. An alert with your name on it does that.

The governing objective

Maximise human flourishing. Minimise harm.

π* = argmaxπ E[Σh∈H Pwrh − λ·#EI]

Choose the rules that give the most power to live well, summed over every human, minus a cost for each harm.

(M)One token, one human, everyone a member.∀h∈H: τ(h)=1
(S)Your say in each area matches your stake in it.ωh(d) = sh/Σsj
(EI)Anyone can ask; a seven-day swap follows.Trig(i,j,t) ⇒ EI(i↔j,t′,168h)
Where it stands

Protocol designed. Hardware not built.

Identity and sign-in work today. The ring, the mesh and the first pilot community still need people to build them.

Be someone who can be alerted.

Tell us where you are and what you can do. That is the whole ask.