EarthNet - Building networks for collective action.
A digital platform initiative that explored how intelligent software and connected networks could speed up progress on complex social and environmental problems.
- Client
- EarthNet
- Sector
- Sustainability, social innovation, collaborative networks
- Capabilities
- Platform architecture, network design, software development, strategy
Overview
Many of the hardest problems already have knowledgeable, motivated people working on them. What holds progress back is fragmentation.
Experts, organisations, funders and practitioners often work in separate systems, which makes collaboration harder than it needs to be.
EarthNet explored how digital networks and intelligent information systems could reduce those barriers. The initiative drew on systems thinking, network theory, collaborative software and emerging AI.
Our contribution
Base6 helped conceive and build platform capabilities for:
- Connecting individuals and organisations
- Finding relevant resources and expertise
- Building professional communities
- Exchanging knowledge
- Supporting collaborative projects
- Linking technology development with wider systems change
What came out of it
EarthNet laid the technical and conceptual groundwork for software that supports collaboration at scale.
It also shaped a principle we still work by: technology does the most good when it helps people and organisations get more done together.
What we did
- Platform architecture
- Network design
- Software development
- Strategy