TRIUBLO - DA VINCI

Project name and Acronym

TRUBLO - DA VINCI

Call

H2020-ICT-2018-2020

Topic

ICT-54-2020-RIA

Funding Program

H2020

Promotor/ Coordinator

MOG Technologies

Duration

15 months

Main objective

DA VINCI crowd journalism social media Decentralized Application (DApp) proposes a blockchain-based environment for collaborative news production. It fosters the usage of user-generated content to assist in professional news production, promoting users’ engagement, satisfaction, and trust in the news produced, considering the several layers of transparency and security enabled by the underlying Alastria blockchain infrastructure. Besides providing a decentralized environment for crowdsourced live streaming, DA VINCI guarantees content ownership and yields a marketplace for audio-visual content immutable trading between participants and journalists, with an internal token ecosystem, rewarding the citizens for their participation. All information produced along the crowd journalism DApp, regarding users, generated content, and marketplace transactions are anonymized and permanently stored in the blockchain infrastructure. The usage of the crowd journalism DApp enables the media producers to obtain high-quality coverage of breaking news, which ultimately results in higher revenue. The citizens who proceeded to cover such events can be rewarded accordingly. DA VINCI not only offers a novel, intuitive, trustworthy, and resilient strategy to engage citizens in the professional news production to securely and reliably dynamize the media industry, as it overcomes privacy, robustness, credibility, and autonomy related issues associated with proprietary social media platforms.

Objectives

Objective 1: Effective communication between journalists and ordinary citizens.
Objective 2: Selection and publication of relevant contributions.
Objective 3: Management of large amounts of data.
Objective 4: Citizen identity protection.
Objective 5: Adequate and secure compensation mechanism.

Work Packages

Work Package 1: System Requirements and architecture;
Work Package 2: System Implementation;
Work Package 3: Testing and validation;
Work Package 4: Dissemination and Exploitation;
Work Package 5: Project Management.