Independent Impact
A fundamentally open platform for reporting, quantifying, and verifying human impact with transparency, community governance, and verifiable technology.
Our Philosophy
Independent Impact fosters quality through openness because we ensure participants can understand exactly what every token or verifiable credential represents.
Open, but meritocratic
Participation is open to implementers, validators, verifiers, and methodology developers. Reputation, earned through quality contributions and peer evaluation, governs what actions each participant can take.
- Visible reputation for creators and reviewers
- Peer evaluation at every stage
- Incentives for continual quality improvements
Transparent, not prescriptive
Independent Impact is designed so users can clearly interpret every quantified outcome while choosing the metrics, assurance levels, and estimation approaches that meet their needs.
- Flexible impact metrics
- Clear disclosure of methodologies
- User-driven assurance requirements
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
Use cases
The one impact accounting platform you need: Independent Impact provides a platform for 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.
- Project listing and token creation
- PDD development and validation
- Digitised methodologies
- Monitoring tools
- Verifiable compute
- Token issuance
Government services
Follow these steps:
- Create indicators for public services.
- Create reputation requirements or whitelist for service providers.
- Place bounties for outcomes.
- Receive evaluations from verifiers and public.
- Cleaning campaigns
- Removal of exotic invaders
- School feeding schemes
- 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.
- Pollution monitoring
- Biodiversity surveys
- Water quality
- Fire risk
Locally driven social / environmental campaigns
Local communities to drive social and environmental initiatives. Follow these steps:
- Create indicators for desired outcomes.
- Create reputation system for contributors.
- Place bounties for outcomes.
- Receive evaluations from verifiers and public.
CSI reporting
Corporate Social Investment (CSI) refers to a company’s strategic allocation of resources toward external social, community, or developmental initiatives that go beyond its core business operations.
- Tracking spend
- Tracking supported activities
- Tracking outcomes
- Verifiable reporting to stakeholders
Outcomes-based philanphropy
A better way to fund social and environmental initiatives based on measurable outcomes.
- Bounties for outcomes
- Reputation-based assignment of verifiers
- Verifiable reporting to donors and stakeholders