TITLE="Welcome LEDGER projects - Dyne.org Amsterdam - 5 July 2019" DESCRIPTION="Information evening hosted by Dyne.org and the city of Amsterdam, to introduce 16 winning ventures of the LEDGER project call 2019 for human-centric solutions that are purpose-driven and socially useful." KEYWORDS="Europe, funding, digital, innovation, policy, social, entrepreneurship" IMAGE="https://taz.dyne.org/img/ledger-juryday-2019.jpg"

Welcome LEDGER projects

The European Venture Builder for Human-Centric Solutions: LEDGER (Next Generation Internet, Europe)

5th July 2019, Amsterdam, 16:00-19:00, Pakhuis De Zwijger, free entry!

LEDGER project Jury Day 2019

At the Dyne.org foundation we love to develop free and open source software and we see our efforts as part of a community of hacktivists and enablers. We encourage the appropriation of technology to weave narratives of empowerment for people. We want to raise awareness on the importance of technical sustainability; we want to enhance people's control on how data and algorithms are developed and condition everyone's life. We dream of a new, open and inclusive European model for technological sovereignty.

Our culture is sharing and caring, our mission is the stewardship of the knowledge commons: for a free world where we can all learn from each other, take and recombine empowering elements in new architectures and designs for the common wealth. What sometimes is hard to get is how to divide the gains fairly, how to imagine and implement ways that turn the economic strength of the common values into sustainable and successful projects and ventures.

Our European observatory on Algorithmic Sovereignty reached significant success in divulging findings and concerns of diverse European research and development projects. The D-CENT made clear how participatory processes can be facilitated by accessible technological means; the DECODE project is researching societal uses for decentralised technologies and crypto innovations; the Commonfare project is leveraging bottom-up community projects of wealth developments through information exchange and participatory budgeting processes.

Now with the LEDGER European project we are raising the bar of our agency with the opportunity to fund and mentor new teams that develop "human-centric" solutions that are purpose-driven and socially useful. Beneficiaries receive up to 200.000 EUR equity free to work hard and deliver a working implementation of their ideas in 9 months.

The winners by alphabetic order are the following:

The event on the 5th of July is our "Welcome Bootcamp" for these teams: the beneficiaries of the LEDGER fund will present their projects, selected for their ethical values, quality and delivery capacity.

You are invited to come along with colleagues, students and friends to learn more about these projects. It can be particularly interesting for those thinking to engage the call, since next year we will award again 16 new teams. At this event you will have a complete overview of the winners with focused, presentations short and to the point, to get to know what matters best in our broad agenda.

Entry is FREE and drinks too - Dutch borrel style! RSVP via Pakhuis de Zwijger. If you have questions, want to RSVP for big groups or like to meet with our Dyne.org team before the start of the event, please send a mail to info@dyne.org with subject LEDGER. We hope to see you and most importantly wish that teams of people that are working to develop Free and Open Source technology for ethical goals gets a growing support in Europe.