ATARCA newsletter - week 13

The work of Aalto University researchers has been recognised as an Excellent Science Innovation by the European Commission's Innovation Radar.

The Innovation Radar has highlighted the innovative potential of the Introduction to Anti-rivalry MOOC created as part of the H2020 project, ATARCA. Aalto University and project partner Demos Helsinki were recognised as key innovators in the project.

The Innovation Radar identifies high-potential innovations and innovators in EU-funded research and innovation framework programmes.

The Introduction to anti-rivalry MOOC summarises what anti-rivalry is and what it means for business and community management. The MOOC also comes with links to a useful anti-rivalry toolkit that helps to plan and support ecosystemsbased on anti-rivalry.

As proof of completing the course, participants will get an anti-rival expert sNFT straight to their crypto-wallet.

The MOOC can be found here: atara.eu/courses/mooc

Interesting and insightful reads

Understanding the ecosystem surrounding an organization can seem daunting, but taking this approach can lead to new opportunities and new partnerships. ATARCA project PI Dr. Ville Eloranta shares his perspective on ecosystems:

If you are building a web3 community, you must understand the fundamental human desire for connection. Creating a sense of belonging, identity, and purpose in your community will help attract members and keep them engaged in the community over time. But how do you go about building a strong and vibrant community in the web3 space? And what do sNFTs have to do with it??

Check out these useful insights from Martin Moravek from Steamr Network:

Digitalisation and data have become the driving forces of our economic system with fundamental implications for human interaction and societal power structures. Yet technological development has created novelties which fit poorly together with institutional structures and governance architecture created in the previous era. Our current economic structures and institutions therefore need a fundamental reform to fully leverage digital, often anti-rival resources. Read the reflections on the latest policy observatory by Demos Helsinki:

ATARCA learning

Anti-rivalry in business models ... a paradox? Not quite! Check out ATARCA's short 2min videos on how you can do business while maximizing the sharing of anti-rival digital goods!

We have found that anti-rivalry can support regenerative and community-driven programs. To help design anti-rival projects or include anti-rivalry in already existing systems, we created the Anti-rival Business Design Toolkit. Check out the toolkit and guide on how to use it:

ATARCA is a research and innovation project exploring the use of Bitcoin-like, anti-rival tokens and testing their applicability to governing industrial data markets. This project will allow the societies at large to more widely explore structurally new incentives for systemic sustainability and scalable systemic intelligence.