Your Priorities
Summary:Users add ideas, view other people’s ideas, and take part in a civil deliberation about each idea. Your Priorities can both be used in public projects in the context of including large numbers of citizens in decision-making, and also in private projects where smaller groups of people can work together remotely on ideas, deliberation and decisions.
Main objective:Your Priorities is an online idea generation and deliberation platform that connects governments & nonprofits with citizens.
End user:Cooperatives / RESCoops, Public authorities, End users
Loomio
Summary:Discuss, decide and collaborate online.
Main objective:Loomio is a simple, user-friendly online tool for collaborative decision-making. Loomio allows to host discussions online, invite the right people to participate, come to timely decisions and transform deliberation into realworld action. Loomio is an open source software, built by a worker-owned cooperative social enterprise. The cooperative is based in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and is part of the Enspiral Network.
End user:Cooperatives / RESCOops
Freecoin
Summary:Freecoin is free and open source/organisations can design and run reward schemes
Main objective:Freecoin is a set of tools to let people run reward schemes that are transparent and auditable to other organisations. It is made for participatory and democratic organisations who want to incentivise participation, unlike centralised banking databases. Freecoin aims to leverage the use of social digital currencies in a reliable, simple and resilient way.
End user:Cooperatives / RESCoops, Public authorities, End users
AGORA VOTING
Summary:Open-source online voting software that protects the privacy of the vote and makes selections end-to-end verifiable.
Main objective:Increase feedback by allowing voters to easily vote from a computer, tablet or phone in minutes with an intuitive digital ballot.
End user:Cooperatives / RESCoops
Consul
Summary:Open participation/ transparency/free software/ allows citizens to be an active part of the city government by offering them different kinds of participatory mechanisms for direct democracy/features: Start debates; - Open proposals; - Make collaborative decisions.
Main objective:Consul automates networking for simple and secure application delivery. Create a consistent platform for modern application networking and security with identity based authorization, L7 traffic management, and service-to-service encryption.
End user:Cooperatives / RESCoops, Public authorities, End users
Rural Energy Community Advisory Hub
Summary:Network of rural community energy members. Created to help and interact with each other. Experts working in rural activities and projects concerning energy communities have invited to take part.
Main objective:Spread the message of (rural) energy communities to EU policymakers and to citizens across Europe, and thereby raise awareness at the EU level of the cruciality of rural energy communities in the energy transition, while learning about best practices when it comes to successful activities and outcomes, in particular those easily replicable for other communities. Update and enhance your understanding of what challenges (rural) energy communities are facing. Join a group of experts including local authorities, investors, etc to exchange ideas with. Facilitate peer-to-peer exchanges of information between energy communities to their mutual benefit and encourage innovation. Gain exposure at the European level and engage with policymakers on a pioneering and evolving dimension of the energy transition. Participate in events, workshops and training sessions to further build capacity and exchange with others.
End user:Cooperatives RESCoops, End Users, Public authorities.
GraphCommons
Summary:Stablish maps for different stakeholders relationships
Main objective:Graph Commons is a collaborative platform for mapping, analyzing and publishing data-networks. It empowers people and organizations to transform their data into interactive maps and untangle complex relations that impact them and their communities. Graph Commons members have been using the platform primarily for two main purposes:Community Strategy – Managing relationships, e.g., ecosystem mapping, community management, organizational analysis, contact mapping, partnership strategy. Innovation Strategy – Discovering opportunities, e.g., issue mapping, knowledge graph, business and investment strategy, market analysis, tech scouting, content strategy, policy mapping, blockchain analysis.
End user:Cooperatives / RESCOops
Discourse
Summary:Tool for community discussion
Main objective:Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room...Discourse excels at asynchronous, distributed teamwork, so we can keep interruptions like instant messaging, calls, and meetings to a minimum.
End user:Cooperatives / RESCOops