Welcome LEDGER projects

The European Venture Builder for Human-Centric Solutions: LEDGER (Next Generation Internet, Europe)

5th July 2019, Amsterdam, 16:00-19:00, Pakhuis De Zwijger, free entry!

At the Dyne.org foundation we love to develop free and open source software and we see our efforts as part of a community of hacktivists and enablers. We encourage the appropriation of technology to weave narratives of empowerment for people. We want to raise awareness on the importance of technical sustainability; we want to enhance people's control on how data and algorithms are developed and condition everyone's life. We dream of a new, open and inclusive European model for technological sovereignty.

Our culture is sharing and caring, our mission is the stewardship of the knowledge commons: for a free world where we can all learn from each other, take and recombine empowering elements in new architectures and designs for the common wealth. What sometimes is hard to get is how to divide the gains fairly, how to imagine and implement ways that turn the economic strength of the common values into sustainable and successful projects and ventures.

Our European observatory on Algorithmic Sovereignty reached significant success in divulging findings and concerns of diverse European research and development projects. The D-CENT made clear how participatory processes can be facilitated by accessible technological means; the DECODE project is researching societal uses for decentralised technologies and crypto innovations; the Commonfare project is leveraging bottom-up community projects of wealth developments through information exchange and participatory budgeting processes.

Now with the LEDGER European project we are raising the bar of our agency with the opportunity to fund and mentor new teams that develop "human-centric" solutions that are purpose-driven and socially useful. Beneficiaries receive up to 200.000 EUR equity free to work hard and deliver a working implementation of their ideas in 9 months.

The winners by alphabetic order are the following:

CoBox Building Blocks for a Cooperative Cloud, by a team of individuals.
Consento providing data privacy powered by Humans for Humans, by Georepublic UG.
Decentralized Science a distributed Open Science publication system, with Open Access infrastructure, a reviewer reputation network and transparent peer reviews, by a team of individuals.a distributed Open Science publication system, with Open Access infrastructure, a reviewer reputation network and transparent peer reviews, by a team of individuals.
Electraseed Fund which aims at accelerating clean energy access at digital pace and scale, by Freeelio UG.
The Energy Commons Protocol an interoperable protocol for a decentralised, sustainable and human-centric energy sector, by Prosume SRL.
Ereuse which aims at reusing electronics ensuring final recycling (a transition to a collaborative and circular consumption of electronics), by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Food Data Market an inclusive Data Marketplace for Sustainable Food Production, Equal Distribution of Gains and Digital Sovereignty of Citizens and Farmers, by Prospeh d.o.o.
Heimdall which provides a self-hosted privacy-focused cloud alternative by decentralisation of services, by a team of individuals.
House.coop a turnkey cooperative to regain control of our housing, by a team of individuals.
iGive2, which decentralises chronic disease management with a community-based human centred platform that motivates healthy living and self-care, by iBreve Ltd.
Merits the platform for the eco-centric economy which facilitates the creation of social and economic ecosystems centred on caring for people, communities and nature, by Merits Srl SB.
oneHEALTH which will challenge proprietary health data of apps and wearables by unifying them via a blockchain based interoperable registry, by Eurob Creative.
Project Aiur a knowledge validation engine combining blockchain and AI technology, by Iris AI AS.
Synergy, a toolkit, running on a distributed ledger, providing financial services for cooperatives: micro-funding, loyalty, transactions, by Synetairismos Ergazomenon Sociality.
Unified Science an academic collaboration platform for empowering researchers to boost their impact, get rewarded for contributions, and control privacy, by Mesensei Oy.
WorldBrain.io which battles misinformation and social polarisation with collective web intelligence, by WorldBrain UG.

The event on the 5th of July is our "Welcome Bootcamp" for these teams: the beneficiaries of the LEDGER fund will present their projects, selected for their ethical values, quality and delivery capacity.

You are invited to come along with colleagues, students and friends to learn more about these projects. It can be particularly interesting for those thinking to engage the call, since next year we will award again 16 new teams. At this event you will have a complete overview of the winners with focused, presentations short and to the point, to get to know what matters best in our broad agenda.

Entry is FREE and drinks too - Dutch borrel style! RSVP via Pakhuis de Zwijger. If you have questions, want to RSVP for big groups or like to meet with our Dyne.org team before the start of the event, please send a mail to info@dyne.org with subject LEDGER. We hope to see you and most importantly wish that teams of people that are working to develop Free and Open Source technology for ethical goals gets a growing support in Europe.