[{"name":"json","type":"string","signature":"string json","value":{"name":"json","type":"string","value":"{\"title\":\"Support OpenLitterMap and help transform public education\",\"description\":\"Starting pre-iPhone in 2008, OpenLitterMap.com has grown to become one of the largest, oldest, and most-open databases on litter, brands, and plastic pollution in the world.\\n\\nSo far, more than 8,000 people in 100+ countries have uploaded almost 500,000 images of litter and added 750,000+ tags of brands, materials, quantities, litter types and other non-litter tags. ![Our whitepaper (Lynch, 2018)](https://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40965-018-0050-y) has received more than ![70+ peer-reviewed academic refereces](https://openlittermap.com/references) and is recognised by Altmetric to be in the top 5% of scientific papers (n=26m).\\n\\nOpenLitterMap was inspired by OpenStreetMap.org which is the most significant map of the world continuously created and updated by over 10M volunteers. OpenLitterMap was invented to become the real-time data collection and reporting layer-2 solution of OSM.\\n\\nDuring the OpenLitterMap research in 2015, Ethereum introduced the concept of tokenisation.\\n\\nProof of work.\\nCitizen science.\\nLittercoin.\\n\\nBut as you are learning, Littercoin will be different.\\n\\nNo ICO.\\nNo exchanges.\\nNo trading.\\nNo logo.\\nJust proof of work for citizen science.\\nand memes\\n\\nA smart contract holds crypto giving each littercoin value.\\n\\nEach Littercoin is currently worth $2.70\\n\\nBut only users that hold a special merchant token can send littercoin to the smart contract to get the crypto out.\\n\\nIn 2021, OpenLitterMap & Littercoin achieved its first and only crypto funding, raising $20,000 from Project Catalyst on Cardano which lead to the development of Littercoin on Cardano:\\n\\nhttps://openlittermap.com/littercoin\\n\\nToday, after 15+ years of R+D I have only 4-8 weeks of runway left before I have to stop. I need your help to keep OpenLitterMap online and support its continued development.\",\"problem\":\"In the mid-1970s plastic pollution was first recognised to have a global distribution in the oceans. This information was locked away in paywalled (and publicly funded) academic papers until digital technologies unlocked the mass global production and consumption of public knowledge. No longer was access to scientific information locked away in institutionalised towers by academics who had the privilege of years of authorised opportunity to the scientific process. Almost overnight, billions of people became the worlds first globally connected generation and the awareness of plastic pollution exploded through video, documentaries and retweets.\\n\\nOver 150 million tonnes of plastic are now believed to be in the oceans, which are only starting to fragment exponentially. Accelerated by petrodollar expansion in the 1970s, plastic production boomed enabling the fractionalisation of commodities and incredibly wasteful over-utilisation. However, now that public knowledge has become available, things are changing, and change they shall.\\n\\nOver 5/8 billion people are now connected online yet we have only scratched the surface of humanities massively untapped active data collection potential. What is there was an incentive to participate? Some kind of fun zero waste reward based in reality?\\n\\nUnfortunately, many people have absorbed the rapid development of technology with no training about its real-world data collection implications and are largely unaware of the real-world data collection purpose of the supercomputers that many of us now casually carry around everywhere. Society is missing public education in the real-world application of these devices and we are here to fix it.\\n\",\"solution\":\"OpenLitterMap.com\",\"missionSummary\":\"1. Upgrades\\n2. New features\\n3. Good memes\\n4. Dog friendly\\n5. Fun community\",\"locationOfImpact\":\"Global\",\"imageURL\":\"\",\"links\":[{\"type\":\"twitter\",\"url\":\"openlittermap\"},{\"type\":\"github\",\"url\":\"openlittermap\"},{\"type\":\"discord\",\"url\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"website\",\"url\":\"https://openlittermap.com\"},{\"type\":\"linkedin\",\"url\":\"\"}],\"slug\":\"support-openlittermap-and-help-transform-public-education\",\"businessModel\":\"Smart Cities and Sustainability\",\"stageIn\":\"Early-customer, pre-seed\",\"raisedMoney\":\"30,000\",\"pathToTake\":\"Want to raise from VCs\",\"type\":\"project-details\"}"}}]