Gamifying Littercoin (Take 2)
Problem
About 1 billion people have powerful devices that can collect data but we have yet to unlock our data collection capacity by making it fun
Solution
We are turning cleaning the planet into a game. Schools & corporate partners will take the LitterWeek challenge with LitterNFTs & more
Total to date
This is the total amount allocated to Gamifying Littercoin (Take 2).
[IMPACT]
OpenLitterMap is a serious game. Thanks to Fund 4, OpenLitterMap.com + our mobile app works, but it is missing a captivating gaming experience. This gaming experience is necessary to meet societies high technological expectations, achieve mass adoption and unlock unprecedented global data collection capacity. Currently, the openlittermap data collection experience is uneventful. This proposal will bring much more than badges, points and leaderboards to the app. We are going to launch a new tool and marketing platform called LitterWeek. Instead of 1 week in the year that everyone must participate (like EarthDay or World Cleanup Day), school + corporate partners will take the LitterWeek challenge any week that suits them. At the end of the school year, we will offer prizes to whoever made the biggest impact and celebrate everyones massively positive quantified open source environmental impact. We are also going to transform our in-game experience, and do many things like guide the user through the biodiversity of life as they level-up, and much more.
Littercoin fixes 2 important barriers to the mass adoption of crypto. Users simply need to collect data on litter to get started, which avoids the need to sign up to an exchange or part with cash. Instead of being a speculative asset traded on exchanges, Littercoin is being engineered to become a non-tradable token that won't be listed on any exchange. Additionally, Littercoin is being engineered so that it can be spent in zero waste stores only, making it a climate currency that not only stimulates climate economics but addresses crypto environmental skepticism. Now that the OpenLitterMap app works, we want to make mining Littercoin fun and more eventful by adding a gamification experience. Once Littercoin has been released, we want to work on LitterNFTs and reward users for meeting certain milestones for example, the first user to upload from a location; the first user to achieve 100,000xp globally, the first user to achieve 100,000xp per location, participation in scientific publications, etc.
Our biggest challenge is not being able to move fast enough. We have corporate users writing to us who want to participate and many schools waiting to sign up to the LitterWeek challenge, but none if it is ready.
[FEASIBILITY]
1 month: New graphic designer + gamification lead join the team and start working on the improved in-app gamification experience and LitterWeek design.
3 months: LitterWeek website online and accepting school + corporate team signups. Will you join a team or play by yourself in Legendary mode? Mobile app now has improved in-game experience.
6 months: Launch LitterStrike campaign. This is our single global day of action for citizen science. Let's incentivise the global climate strike movement to map pollution and shop in the climate economy.
12 months: LitterWeek year 2 begins with more school, corporate and university partnerships.
10% Graphic Designer, Animator + Videographer. ($5,000)
10% Story development, gamification lead to work with the graphic designer ($5,000)
50% Software development for LitterWeek + LitterStrike websites and integrate gamification story + awards ($25,000).
15% Creation and development of LitterNFTs
15% Overheads, extra costs, misc.
Seán Lynch - Founder and full stack developer at OpenLitterMap
Geni Jaho - Laravel & Vue developer at OpenLitterMap
Anoop Nair - React Native developer at OpenLitterMap
Mick Fitzpatrick (new) - UI/UX designer at OpenLitterMap
[AUDITABILITY]
We will create google spreadsheets that show every ada transaction and ada/euro spent
eg
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OWy_bXu9Eeh7bSA0KLarP9TSQg7XJKKqPMGxiRTbAFk/edit#gid=0
Beginning in my native Ireland, LitterWeek will become the biggest and most successful citizen science initiative in the country which will result in the most comprehensive baseline dataset of litter and plastic pollution created so far. Through a university partnership with UCD, we already have 100+ schools waiting to sign up as well as a range of corporate partners who want to showcase their social and climate commitment and demonstrate their leadership in the community. Once piloted and demonstrated in my native Ireland, we will be ready to export this movement globally.
Littercoin - Mass Adoption was funded in Fund 4 under dApps & Integrations which is still ongoing. So far we have made massive improvements in the app + backend which is now onboarding 5+ users per day and 200-500 image uploads per day. This fund will finish with the launch of the Littercoin token
https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Littercoin-Mass-Adoption/340301-48088
Unfortunately, both of our Fund 7 proposals were unsuccessful which you can see and read about here
https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Gamifying-Littercoin/382230-48088
https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/The-Littercoin-Stake-Pool/381789-48088
These unsuccessful proposals have slowed down our progress considerably as now I need to spent much more time looking for the next source of funding to continue operations instead of working on the development of Littercoin as I had intended. Hopefully fund 8 will be successful
SDG Rating
OpenLitterMap covers 16/17 SDGs
https://openlittermap.medium.com/openlittermap-and-the-sdgs-ea3567d5085e
Team
14+ years independent R+D developing openlittermap.com. Littercoin idea born in 2015 after writing the openlittermap dissertation and being introduced to tokenisation. First funding on Project Catalyst in Fund 4 which is still ongoing. Looking to do a PhD once app is developed.
