LEDGER, a European project financed by the European Commission, is looking for 32 human centric innovators to develop Minimum Viable Products and Services, in order to achieve new models that preserve citizens’ digital sovereignty, where data is a common good owned by citizens and wealth created by data-driven platforms is equally distributed.

Digital sovereignty = Holochain

Data as common good = Analys, transparency, öppen data, öppna APIer osv

Wealth created equally distributed = ekonomisk förening

Research-delen kanske kan fokusera på inköpsföreningarna? Känner vi någon forskare? -Borde inte vara så svårt att hitta i våra kretsar tänker jag. Kan göra lite efterforskningar. /marcus

What is Ledger?

LEDGER is a project funded by the European Commission that aims at achieving new models that preserve citizens’ control over the management of their data, where data is a common good owned by citizens and wealth created by data-driven platforms is equally distributed.

LEDGER will support human centric innovators through the MVP Builder Programme which is focused on FLOSS (Free and Open Source) solutions and will provide to new teams a good environment to work their ideas from the first implementation steps (at TRL4/5) to minimum viable products (TRL7).

The technologies and ideas that LEDGER refers to are connected all with data: privacy-by-design, decentralized data governance, traceability and trust, trusted computation and algorithmic governance.

What challenges can be addressed by the projects in those verticals?

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Economy: solutions for new innovative forms of economic interaction between peers, such as crowdfunding, P2P lending and participatory budgeting, which favours disintermediation and standardisation, are reproducible and demonstrate the potentials and manage the risks of embedding governance structures within the rules of algorithmic protocols.

(Disintermediation – kapa mellanhänder)

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Energy and sustainability: solutions tackling issues such as decentralised renewable energy production, accumulation and exchange, carbon footprint reduction and ocean pollution, alternative food production, tagging and food chain management systems, the creation and distribution of new and less-pollutant materials or the re-use and recycling of existing materials and promoting sustainable decentralised data and business modelling for digital sovereignty in this vertical.

Tagging and food chain management systems, the creation and distribution of new and less-pollutant materials or an efficient and trustable re-use and recycling of existing materials is another field of entrepreneurial ideas that can file under this vertical.

Sustainable, decentralised data economies for urban ecologies, business modelling food, energy, water, basic needs of ecosystem appeasement also go in this vertical.

Examples: