[2012 07-01] wiki socium - open projects fund

WikiSociumwww.wikisocium.ru

Daniel Kanevskiy

Civil society projects

WikiSocium: a construction tool and a scalable collection of step-by-step instructions for the actual social problems: housing and public utility, roads, consumer’s rights, law and order, etc.

Current stage:• Completed conceptual design and development plan• Gathered a team of 8 people working on a voluntary

basis• Collaboration with experts on 11 cases in progress• Functional prototype’ development being finished

About…

• To create a collection of “what can I do?” answers for a variety of actual social problems

• To make the social activity as simple and convenient, as possible

• To motivate more people towards social activization

• To provide the mechanisms of the knowledge base growth

Goals and objectives

Analogues Project Functionality Drawbacks

РосЯма (rosyama.ru)

Neat and simple solution for the road pits problem

Developed for one problem, non-scalable

ДомДворДороги(domdvordorogi.ru)

Description of the solution for three problems: in-house, courtyard and road pits

Text description only, no interactive tools and statistics. No motivation for growth

Куда-Кому(kuda-komu.net)

Claims generation for a variety of social problems

No statistics, focus on claims only instead of answering “what to do?” questions

WikiHow.com Well categorized wiki pages with how-tos, great community involvement tools

No social focus, texts only, no statistics

• Advertising for social-oriented businesses

• Paid consultations site

• Commercial projects based on the engine being developed (“wiki-wizards”)

Ways of commercialization The project is non-commercial, monetization is considered in distant perspective only

• Content: unlimited collection + categorization + full-text search + wiki-mechanisms for user-driven collection growth

• Management: the objective is to implement the wikipedia “self-government” mechanisms and principles

• Load: using node.js, planning heavy refactoring of the prototype

Scalability

• It works!Actual problems’ solutions, supplemented with the usage statistics and practice

• Simple and convenient!Oriented on maximal simplicity, user-friendly UI and automation

• Interesting!Activity maps, stories, comments, social networks integration

Virality

• Top-bloggersThe site responds to the internet community needs

• Independent mediaActual topic: constructive canalisation of the protest moods

• Civil activists communitiesEarly adopters and potential beta-testers

• Experts: lawyers, journalists, politiciansAuthors or sponsors of the solutions, building reputation or attracting attention

Promotion opportunities

6+ months costs Stage Work content Timing Costs

Prototype(«It works»)

Finishing the basic mechanisms and design, providing solutions for 10 cases

2 months 200 th. roub.

Version 1.0(«Interesting» + «Convenient»)

Server infrastructure, UI friendliness, activity maps, stories, social networks integration, expert services, mobile applications

4 months 800 th. roub.

Version 2.0(«Wiki»)

Solution construction tool, wiki mechanisms

3 months 500 th. roub.

* Calculated assuming the creation of the professional development team, but free hosting and voluntary content management

• Sponsorship/investment in the development of the full-functional version

• Consulting in the project development management

• Participation in the promotion

• Participation in the creation of the experts community

Help needed

The team and contacts

[email protected] [email protected]+7 (910) 432-91-15