Independent Impact
A fundamentally open, reputation-governed, semantic Web3 platform for reporting, verifying, and managing human impact.
Our Philosophy
Independent Impact fosters quality through openness. We ensure that all participants can understand exactly what every token or verifiable credential represents.
Open, but meritocratic
Participation is open to individuals, communities, organisations, corporates, regulatory bodies, and governments. Anyone can in principle be an impact implementer, validator, verifier, methodology developer, or standard setter. Reputation, earned through quality contributions and peer evaluation, governs what actions each participant can take.
- Visible reputation for all agents
- Peer evaluation of every significant action
- Incentives for continual quality improvements
Transparent, not prescriptive
Independent Impact is designed such that users can clearly interpret every quantified outcome while choosing the metrics, assurance levels, and estimation approaches that meet their needs.
- Semantic impact metrics
- Reproducible execution of methodologies
- Composable assurance requirements
- Traceable data lineages
Immutable, yet accessible
Proven distributed technologies protect artefacts and transactions while making every action auditable. Users can interrogate projects, credentials, and impact claims in depth.
- Content-addressed artefact storage
- Distributed ledger journaling
- Queryable history of actions and controls
- Publicly accessible interrogation tools
Use Cases
The one impact accounting platform you need: Independent Impact serves a wide variety of impact accounting use cases.
Voluntary GHG offsetting
All the tools you need for traditional voluntary carbon market projects - start to finish.
- Design and validate projects and activities
- Search and compare digitised methodologies
- Execute methodologies and calculate impact verifiably
- Monitor impact and record data lineages
- Define and issue credits
Government services
Manage provision of public services through standard setting, bounties and evaluation.
- Organise cleaning campaigns
- Manage removal of exotic invaders
- Administer school feeding schemes
- Run public health initiatives.
Citizen science
Build large-scale citizen science projects: Create data collection protocols and tools, then let the public submit data and earn reputation for quality contributions.
- Monitor pollution
- Conduct biodiversity surveys
- Monitor water quality
- Track wildfire risks
Community-driven impact campaigns
Run your local community’s social and environmental initiatives on Independent Impact.
- Create indicators for desired outcomes
- Set up a reward system for contributors
- Place bounties for outcomes
- Receive evaluations from the public
Standard setting and compliance
Set impact and accounting standards and manage compliance.
- Draft standards and guidelines
- Get input from experts
- Deploy compliance metrics
CSI reporting
Strategically allocate your company’s resources toward external social, community, or developmental initiatives.
- Track spend
- Track supported activities
- Track outcomes
- Produce verifiable reports for your stakeholders
Outcomes-based philanthropy
Fund social and environmental initiatives based on measurable outcomes.
- Create indicators for desired impact
- Place bounties for outcomes
- Choose verifiers by reputation
- Produce verifiable reports for your donors and stakeholders