Looking for an operational partner:

WorldBrain.io, Edgeryders.eu,Coccon Pro and its supporter network want to apply for the upcoming ICT-54-2020 call as a consortium to run an incubator and co-development community for P2P/Open-Source knowledge and collective intelligence tools. The budget is €6 million over 24-36 months. >70% (~4.2m€) to be given to applicants.

To complement the expertise required for running this incubator, we are looking for an operational partner for the main role of processing the H2020 funds. It is required that this organisation has experience with handling the bureaucratic work associated with large sums of (public) money. We also welcome your organisation to engage in the creation of content and the overall concept.

More information on the proposal and the call you find in this document.

The deadline is on January 16, 2020 so if your organisation is interested, lets jump on a call as soon as possible.

You can book a meeting here.

~ Oliver, Hugi, Stelio and Ruben

Introduction into H2020 Call Context

Europe wants to become the leader in the field of collective intelligence and is uniquely positioned to do so. Its values of interoperability, privacy and decentralised power are foundational for an open web and the emergence of collective intelligence.

The upcoming ICT-54-2020 call allows a consortium of organisations to apply for an €6m funding pot of which they have to distribute €4.7m to outstanding academic research groups, hi-tech start-ups, SMEs and others, contributing to the research and innovation area via cascade funding model. The Commission considers proposals with an overall duration of 24 to 36 months. Third parties will be funded through projects, typically in the EUR 50,000 to EUR 200,000 range per project, with an indicative duration of 12 months.

The deadline is January 16. 2020. (very tight)

One of the subtopics of the call is:

"Bringing forward the emergence of collective intelligence on the internet"

• developing approaches for scientific understanding and technology-based stimulation of collective intelligence on social media and the internet to foster trustworthy knowledge and information sharing, and to enhance social inclusion. Focus is on two main use cases:
  1. develop new community-based service models on social networks that exploit collective intelligence to provide enhanced community services, and increase the availability of trustworthy content;
  2. in the context of collective intelligence develop and implement new concepts for connecting people and smart objects/agents/AI on social media.
• Approaches for both use cases must be rooted in scientific analysis of collective behaviour and network mechanisms, harness decentralised technologies such as P2P or blockchain for governance and support a dependable collective memory.

Proposal Summary:

WISDOM - Human & community centric incubator for P2P knowledge and collective intelligence software.

Europe wants to become the leader in the field of collective intelligence and is uniquely positioned to do so. Its values of interoperability, privacy and decentralised power are foundational for an open web and the emergence of collective intelligence. It has credibility as a champion of the human-centric internet through its regulatory muscle flexing (the GDPR, Vestager, net neutrality). Now it has an important opportunity to take charge of also building technological solutions as well as new social and economic models that could support a human/community-centric alternative to compete with the dominant narrative of Big Tech and Venture funding.

Today, the space of knowledge management and social/collective media applications is dominated by organisations that have an economic incentive to continuously grow-at-all-costs to reward investors. With these reward models organisations losing users or profit directly influences the profit margin of investors and create a need for 'infinite' growth. This incentivises the creation of lock-ins, as well as exploitation of the environment, workers and users. Data and social lock-ins limit innovation, open markets, the free flow of information and the capacity for collective intelligence.