| From
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302599 : > If you label things with #GlobalGoal hashtags, others can find solutions to the very same problems. The Global Goals are the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030. There are 17 Goals, 169 Targets and 247 Indicators. There have been social media campaigns with hashtags, so there are already "hames" (hashtaggable names) for the high level goals. Anyone can implement #hashtags, +tags, WikiWords, or similar. The twitter-text library is open source, for example. Re: Schema.org/Mission, :Goal, :Objective [...] linked data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12525141 "Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412493 From https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/carbon.txt/issues/3... re: a proposed carbon.txt: > Is there a way for sites to sign a claim with e.g. ld-proofs and then have an e.g. an independent auditor - maybe also with a W3C DID Decentralized Identifier - sign to independently verify? When an auditor confirms a sustainability report, they could sign it and award a signed blockcert. (Other ideas considered for similar matching, recommendation, and expert-finding objectives: A StackExchange site for SDG Q&A with upvotes and downvotes, ) I saw that you're not interested in (syndicating content for inbound links with) AT protocol? Is it perceived development cost and estimation of inbound traffic? What differentiates your offering from existing platforms like LinkedIn? How could your mission be achieved with existing solutions? |
AirDel is built on the observation that the gap isn't in labeling missions - it's in connecting the labeled missions with the actual resources needed to accomplish them. Even perfectly categorized goals often stall because:
1. The right resources aren't connected to the right needs in real-time 2. Communication happens in silos separate from resource coordination 3. Verification and trust mechanisms are missing from hashtag-based discovery
What differentiates us from LinkedIn or hashtag systems is that we've built resource matching directly into the conversation flow. When someone posts a need in AirDel, our system doesn't just categorize it - it actively identifies who in the network has the resources, expertise, or connections to help, then facilitates the actual coordination.
I'm actually very interested in the AT protocol for future interoperability! Our current focus is on perfecting the resource coordination mechanisms, but creating bridges to existing semantic standards (including the UN SDG vocabulary) is definitely on our roadmap.
Regarding your question about existing solutions - we found that while platforms like LinkedIn excel at professional networking, and hashtag systems excel at categorization, neither provides the action-oriented infrastructure needed for time-sensitive resource coordination.
Would love to discuss this further - especially your thoughts on how we might incorporate some of these semantic standards while maintaining our focus on practical resource matching.