Result description
Are you a sharing economy entrepreneur, not very familiar with complex and hardly understandable codes and softwares, but you have the intuition and the right application idea? Well, SmartCollectives is exactly what you need for! It is an open-source toolkit, building upon a ~10M€ investment in R&D, which allows you to quickly prototype and easily build your application for the sharing economy. How? By granting you access to an array of combined and integrated software components that allow your app/service to combine, mix and match resources and services that your users are willing to share. The components comply with GDPR and enable you to create a platform with an ethical governance. SmartCollectives includes examples that can help you understand how to use the toolkit, and get the most out of it!
SmartCollectives provides you a software toolkit for easily building applications able to access combined resources provided by teams of diverse people. Resources can be physical ones (e.g., a seat in your car on your way home) or immaterial ones (e.g., knowledge on the best vegan restaurants in Vienna).
The toolkit includes automated mechanisms for incentivising user participation while preserving user privacy by design. The toolkit can be used to instantiate platforms serving B2C, B2B or B2G markets, as well as to run community-driven initiatives.
The toolkit is released under a permissive (Apache v.2) open source license to provide maximum flexibility to you. Want to use it for a community project? Nothing to pay! Want to use it for commercial projects/services? No strings attached (and nothing to pay, again!).
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- Business partners – SMEs, Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations
- Expanding to more markets /finding new customers
- Collaboration
We are seeking for early adopters, being them startups, communities or Web entrepreneurs that want to launch a new service/application for the sharing economy and are willing to use our service to build quickly and validate their ideas in the real world. We offer support for development/deployment and the possibility of tailoring the toolkit for their specific needs.
- Other Actors who can help us fulfil our market potential
- Research and Technology Organisations
- Private Investors
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
SmartCollectives is considered a TRL-7 technology. The toolkit was used to develop a set of demonstrators and pilots of diverse sharing economy services.
Result submitted to Horizon Results Platform by BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV
