Ways open social platforms can break data silos for better informed climate action for the individual:
Prerequisite:
Social platform such that people can add products/services to ‘sustainable habits’ on their profiles and review their sustainability, as a form of endorsement.
If endorsement is limited to one per habit and number of habit themselves are limited (based on time/activity), it would set foundation to incentivize the companies to work to earn that endorsement for being sustainable which adds to their reputation.
This enables data silos to be broken and come together in some exciting ways.
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Building data bridges: Option to connect social account with companies with your data, such that they could work with additional data (that social platforms intrinsically generate) to help make their products/service more sustainable.
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Community accepted bridges: Openly researched sustainability standards by companies and accepted by community, before individual members even get an option to connect accounts and build that bridge.
An example of sustainability standard with detailed explanation in context of EV industry.
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First mover advantage: The additional data and community participation could be incentive enough for companies to openly work towards sustainability. First movers get the opportunity to set the first standard for the industry to beat.
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Access based ad network: Continuous improvement (determined by reviews) on set goals would be great and only way to determine continued access to the ad network. You do good, you get to reap more.
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Privacy first: No data is directly shared between connected accounts, rather code based on the standards accepted by the community first and by the member, is run and results are shared. This could be a fully deterministic process for the member, using blockchain (read more in document below).
One - community and entropy based access to networks.pdf (210.6 KB)
All the data in the world must be more valuable to the people, especially during a crisis, than whatever else it is valued for.
Cannot wait for the day when Farmers, Teachers, companies like Ather, Ola, Dunzo, Zomato, Dmart, Big-basket, and local governing organisations like BMRCL, BMTC, BBMP, around the world are linked by their customers/citizens through open social platforms, to work towards climate goals.
Is this a way startup ecosystem in India could come together and build for the world?
I hope this helps. 