“We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.”
Simon Mainwaring
A lot of relevant information will be available in real-time on the mobile app TerraBeat that people can use to start connecting and interacting. The app use gamification techniques to improve user engagement. User are motivated to share knowledge to third parties and social medias, to “adopt” a piece of a degraded area and support its recovery project, to learn about the importance of a healthy environment and so on.
Autonomy
Freedom to establish one’s own behavior patterns.
Purpose
Focus on the problem to be solved.
Mastery
Balance between challenge, fun and simplicity.
Progress
Easy to understand reward system.
Interaction
Designed to encourage and reward social networks.
Companies interested in attaching their names, projects, or products to state-of-the-art solutions in the environmental field can sponsor projects or the platform.
To improve collaboration opportunities, the SmartPlanet platform provides an open marketplace that offers georeferenced data, algorithms to process and analyze these data, tools to integrate results into legacy applications and to react to special events, and visual components to present the results & trends in a powerful dashboard and to make key insights available to stakeholders and the population.
Providers can use this marketplace to offer data, algorithms, tools and/or components by joining the partner program and certifying their products.