Digital SI Lab’s purpose is mainly to share knowledge and information, to create opportunities of collaboration of the companies, communities and individuals and development of their creative, digital and social capacities while sharing and exchanging the knowledge, ideas expertise and experiences among each other and sharing values.
to share, exchange and disseminate information, knowledge, and common values; to create knowledge pool with the relevance of SIs, new technologies (including Blockchain/DLT, technologies, AI/ML, IoT, etc.); to enable access to the platform to different stakeholders, communities, groups or individuals and create an ethical codex; for horizontal legislator and regulation issues the government representatives shall be engaged; organization of events for stakeholders or offering the stakeholders the self-organization of events through the SI Lab
Impact Hub, Social Impact Award, SozialMarie Prize and other incubation programs and awards that are targeting social innovations specifically and are creating a supporting environment for changemakers.
to identify mentors – internal or external for standard or specific tasks: for standard tasks – preparation of business, marketing, financial plan in incubation phase at first stage; external advisor and consultancy can be arranged, for the following period the capacities shall be provided within the SI Lab; train the mentors under »train the trainers« programmes, provided by SI Lab.
to provide a virtual environment for collaboration; to develop a collaborative platform, preferably Blockchain/DLT based platform, for individuals, companies, communities, and society to enhance their visibility, proactive role in solving SI challenges and creating business opportunities.
listing the current funding opportunities; supporting with the applications, finding suitable partners.
to identify and engage relevant communities and target groups; to define activities and services to be provided to the identified stakeholders; to enable peer-to-peer communication in order to establish a non-intermediary, highly efficient and cost less business for its members and customers; to promote its members on the national level and abroad with their increased visibility through the platform; to create a database of members and define the conditions for inclusion of individuals, companies, and institutions into that database (Blockchain based register preferred), respecting GDPR provisions; to create a »secondary network« of potential investors (private and public companies, private and public institutional investors, etc.); continuous development of knowledge through networking and connecting individuals, start-ups, companies, and community providing events, such as workshops, academies, consultations, meet-ups, conferences; offering a space to stakeholders to organize events, workshops, talks.