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SPACESHIP

Spaceship Earth

Earth systems science, digital twins, spatial intelligence, and technological infrastructure

28 Actors
8 Categories
Categories
AI for Planetary Governance 5 Anti-Corruption & Transparency Infrastructure Blockchain & Regenerative Finance (ReFi) 8 Decentralised Governance Tech 5 Digital Twins & Earth Modelling 4 Open Earth Data & Satellite Intelligence 6 Spatial Web & IoT Infrastructure 2 Steward Ownership & Alternative Corporate Models 2
Actors · 28
NGO
Citizen OS
Estonia · Global · Established

Estonian civic tech non-profit developing a free, open-source digital participation platform for participatory democracy. Founded in 2015 from environmental activism movements, enables communities to discuss, deliberate, and vote on decisions.

Research
Metagov
USA / Global · Global · Active

Research collective studying and building interoperable governance tools for online communities, exploring governance games and tool experimentation across digital and physical spaces.

Network
Civic Tech Sweden
Sweden · National · Active

Decentralized network of individuals, organizations, and public sector entities leveraging digital technology for public benefit. Closely intertwined with Open Knowledge Sweden.

Company
Dark Matter Labs
UK / EU · Global · Active

Smart covenants, redesigning 21st century institutions.

Government
Destination Earth (DestinE)
EU · Global · Active

EU initiative: high-precision digital model of Earth by 2030.

Company
Digidem Lab
Sweden · Regional · Established

Swedish worker-owned cooperative specializing in design and development of methodologies for political and democratic innovation. Executed the historic Swedish Citizens' Assembly on Climate in 2024.

Company
Hypha DAO
Global · Global · Active

Human-centric decentralised organisation tools for regenerative projects.

Company
Kindship
Sweden · Global · Early

AI platform building autonomous agents for mission-driven individuals and teams. Agents hold direction over time, act independently, remember context, and produce real-world outputs — designed for changemakers, sensemakers, and collaborative projects.

Company
Kolektivo
Global · Global · Active

Local network states using nature-based currencies for UBI.

NGO
Liquid Democracy e.V.
Germany · Regional · Established

Berlin-based nonprofit developing open-source digital participation tools including Adhocracy, enabling liquid democracy and deliberative processes for governments and civil society.

Research
Plurality Institute
USA / Global · Global · Active

Research institute founded by Glen Weyl advancing plural technology — collaborative tools for cooperation across difference, including quadratic voting/funding, plural money, and decentralised identity systems.

NGO
Purpose Foundation
Germany / Global · Global · Active

Steward-ownership models. Anti-extraction corporate design.

NGO
RadicalxChange
Global · Global · Active

Glen Weyl. Quadratic voting, plural management, new democracy tools.

Company
Single.Earth
Estonia · Global · Active

Estonian startup creating nature-backed digital tokens (MERIT) that represent verified ecosystem services, building an economic system where preserving nature is more profitable than destroying it.

Company
Spatial Web Foundation / Verses AI
Global · Global · Active

HSML — making physical space programmable with digital rules.

Network
Steward Ownership
Europe · Global · Active

Knowledge platform and network promoting steward-ownership as an alternative corporate model where companies are self-owned, profits serve purpose, and control stays with active stewards rather than passive investors.

Company
Strawbees
Sweden · Global · Active

Erik Thorstensson. Accessible construction/prototyping tools. Potential core team.

NGO
Blockchain for Climate Foundation
Canada · Global · Active

Canadian foundation bridging blockchain technology with UNFCCC climate policy, convening governments, NGOs and Indigenous leaders to explore transparent and interoperable carbon accounting infrastructure.

Network
Climate Action Data Trust
Global · Global · Active

Multi-stakeholder initiative providing open, blockchain-based metadata infrastructure to prevent double counting of carbon credits across registries, linking Verra, Gold Standard and national registries through interoperable data layers.

Company
Curve Labs
Global · Global · Active

Web3 development lab building institutional ReFi technology. Core technical partner for Kolektivo Framework and tokenised ecological assets.

Company
Gaia AI
UK · Global · Active

AI-powered forest management platform providing satellite-derived insights on forest health, carbon stocks, and biodiversity metrics to support data-driven conservation decisions.

Network
Nordic Blockchain Alliance
Pan-Nordic (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark) · Regional · Early

Cross-border initiative funded by Nordic Innovation exploring joint Nordic blockchain ecosystem, targeting lifestyle and design industries for circular business model transition and European Product Passport compliance.

Research
Open Data Cube
Global · Global · Active

Open-source geospatial data management and analysis platform enabling governments and researchers to process and analyse satellite earth observation data at national scale.

NGO
Participatory Budgeting Project
USA · National · Established

Leading US organisation advancing participatory budgeting as a democratic practice, having supported over 400 PB processes and helped allocate hundreds of millions in public funds through direct citizen decision-making.

Network
ReFi DAO
Global · Global · Active

Global regenerative finance community hub providing media, research, builder cohorts, and ecosystem mapping connecting ReFi projects across blockchain and ecological domains.

NGO
Sociocracy For All
USA / Global · Global · Established

Global nonprofit providing open-source training, resources, and community for sociocratic (consent-based) governance, supporting cooperatives, communities, and organisations in implementing distributed decision-making.

Company
Toucan Protocol
Global · Global · Active

Web3 infrastructure bringing carbon credits on-chain, enabling transparent and programmable carbon markets through tokenisation of verified environmental assets.

Government
Viable Cities
Sweden · National · Established

Swedish strategic innovation programme for climate-neutral cities by 2030. Collaborates with Dark Matter Labs on System Demonstrators in Lund and Stockholm.