Roadmap
Independent Impact is under active development. We have built core capabilities and are expanding the platform with additional features to support a indicator and methodology development build a community of impact creators.
Completed
Integration with Hedera Consensus Service
The Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) is at the core of everything that happens on Independent Impacts. All significant events on Independent Impacts is captured on HCS.
- User registrations
- Project submissions
- Validation & Verification
- Credential issuances
- Reputation updates
Completed
User registration and identity
Basic functionality for registering users and linking their Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs) to their accounts is live on the project developer portal.
- Standards body
- Project developer
- Validator
- Verifier
Completed
Project Design Document (PDD) creation
Project developers can create and submit PDDs for peer validation directly in the project developer portal.
- Complete generic PDD template
Completed
Project Design Document (PDD) validation
PDD validation workflow for validator and project developer is available in the project developer portal.
- Paragraph-level review and approval
- Corrective action requests and resolution
- Forward action requests
- Final approval and projecy registration
In Progress
Reputation system
Reputation system that tracks and displays reputation scores for all participants.
- Indicators
- Methods
- Project developers
- Project participants
- Validators & verifiers
- Standards bodies
- Public display of reputation scores
In Progress
First mile data collection tools
Create tools for collecting verifiable data from the field
- Survey CTO plugin
- Mobile app toolkit
In Progress
AI-powered impact browser
AI tools help users explore and understand impact data with natural language search and assisted explanations via the Impact Explorer.
- Natural language queries
- Contextual explanations
- Query generation
Planned
Indicators and metrics library
A library of impact indicators and metrics
- Standardised impact indicator format
- Standardised impact metrics format
- Comment and finalisation process
- Registry of finalised indicators and metrics
- Portal and tools for indicator and metric development
In Progress
Impact methodologies library
A library of impact methodologies by indicator is rolling out, with published R packages for large-scale ACM and small-scale AMS use cases.
- Standardised methodology format
- Comment and finalisation process
- Registry of finalised methodologies
- Portal and tools and methodology development
Planned
Integration with Learning Tokens
Hedera Learning Tokens will reward ongoing contributions and training milestones.
- Implement learning token specification for Hedera Token Service
- Build user toolkit
- Pilot learning-token incentives
Planned
Rapid implementation toolkit
Make community-based projects implementable with minimal technical inputs. Pre-packaged implementation monitoring and impact monitoring tools so community-level projects can get started quickly
- Integrate methodologies with data collection and reporting tools
- Training materials and support
- Implementation tracking dashboard
Planned
Public reporting platform
A public platform for exploring and reporting achieved verified impacts
- Search and filter by project / indicator / metric / geography etc.
- Project and portfolio level summaries
- Downloadable reports