2 - Using the tool

Tutorial, first steps, ...

TO COMMUNECT

Nowadays, many people get the habit to be daily connected to a network with the aim of giving and getting news from their close relatives or from the world's situation. Communecter is a social network, however it stands out from the ones we used to use from 2008 by its open source code (which means you can contribute to the platform and know how it works). Moreover, the visible datas on the website are in opendata : you can copy and reuse them on other platforms.
The interest of using Communecter can be seen in its  capacity to reference local initiatives located in an defined area, and the importance given to facilitate the dialogue between local stakeholders (associations, citizens, informal groups, local companies etc...)

Some advices to start

  1. Create your account from the homepage
  2. Complete your profile by clicking on your handle on the top right  then on "About" on the left column.
  3. Follow people and organizations that you like
  4. Join the organizations that you are already part of, create the page if it doesn't exist yet on the network. You can also ask for being the administrator if you considered yourself as strongly involved.

Ask for help

Communecter pour les nuls (Communecter for beginners) is THE page that you should follow in order to ask questions and see others' ones. Tips and tutos are published in order to get you informed.

Bring your community with you

Communecter might be more useful for you if your community (e.g. family, friends, colleagues, project partner•s) is also there. Here above a suggestion for creating your ecosystemic world  :

  1. Create and complete the profile of your group
  2. Invite them via mail
  3. Start by listing your projects or events to come if there is any
  4. Post a little message of arrival on the Live 😃
  5. Experiment the Chat/Messaging and the Cooperative space (Co-space)

Common questions

Can I create an account for my organization ? It is admitted that every initiatives emerging in a given space come from individuals so there is no special account for organization that can be created. However, once connected, whoever citizen can create an organization, an event or a project.

My project already exists on the network, how can I modify it ? By default option, every description is in open access. If it is the case of you project, you just need to be connected to access to its edition's settings. If the open access has been desactivated, only members can modify the informations. More informations + : Roles.

I don't want anyone to be able to modify the informations of my project. How can I limit the access ? Join the event, the project or the organization as an administrator then click on sur Settings > Privacy settings.

Why is Communcter hosted by Amazon ? It is one of our most important concern about the project. We have the firm intention to leave Amazon, but unfortunately this implies human and financial ressources that we can't currently assume. Please read this article explaining our choice (french).

Do you allow pseudonymity ? Yes, anyone can use their pseudo instead of their names.

 

First step

Learn about the project

Create your account on Communecter

Nothing too tricky, reach the homepage http://communecter.org

Open Edition

Communect my organization

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Presentation

The functionnalities of Communecter are particularly suitable for organizations practices as the network is fundamentally dedicated to stakeholders and local initiatives.

Where to begin ?

Only few minutes are sufficient to start exchanging on Communecter

1 - Set the stage

Start with the creation of the biggest elements of your community. No need to spend hours on this, the objective is to display what it is possible to do on Communecter and to make easier the contributions to come.

Great, my working group is already created. Hop ! As the profile picture is missing, let's add it and anounce the date of the next meeting.

  1. Create your organization by using the button on the lower left-hand
  2. Complete its profile via the different apparent tabs
  3. Publish a welcoming message

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2 - Invite active members

They only have to click on the link they received by mail to join the group.

3 - Launch a conversation

Click on "Chat", you will access to the interactive chat (available on Android and iOS) belonging to your community.

4 - Go further

 

Communect my federation

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Communecter is a really useful tool for communities which are organized as local groups. This societal network is helpful at every scale of your network :

  • Different kind of tools associated to open gouvernance are available to be organized within a local group.
  • Communecter makes exchanges more efficient between local groups. By spreading news in a federate way, members and supporters of your group will stay informed of what is happening within your network.
  • Globally, your federation is poised as a stakeholder of the thematic in which you are engaged.

Communecter helps any user who is looking for their local community, in order to get organized, to discuss and to share informations internally, while keeping an eye on what is happening somewhere else. It is caracterized as a glocal tool.

Certain Asssemblies of the commons or local collective Zero Waste are already using Communecter. This documentation demonstrates some facts that the pixels humains collective have been noticed within the networks they are contributing to.

We will be delighted to exchange with you about what you experienced with the tools you are currently using and also with Communecter. Please contact us via :
contact@communecter.org

How ?

Some concrete examples :

Complete list of functionnalities

How are set the enhancements ?

If a need is noticed in several communities and if the required functionnality is matching with the spirit of the project, the team will be ready work for its developpement. Financially, we are not always able to realize it, however it happened that people supporting the idea or the project will help with giving funds for it achievement. Concretely, if your local groups bring forward similar needs, we can co-organize a collect within your community to collect the amount requisite for the developpement of the functionnality.

Find out more about our financial model

Where to begin ?

To communect my town

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Bringing closer citizens and their reprensentatives

In progress

It has to be said that an uneasiness surrounding the democratic question crept in citizens' mind and in their representatives' one. The first category is considered as unconcerned and the second one as deconnected; this acception is not exactly fair. However, there is a strong dismay playing on the public stage. 

This situation is likely to stagnate if we keep staring at it, conversely we can use available tools in order to inspire people to get implicated with their representatives for the future of their locality. It implies to modify certain operating modes of the public bodies. Numerical platforms for citizens can help to reconnect those two spheres, but also to deploy new solutions with the aim of improving the dialogue by synchronizing this latter with the present time and the time to come. Every collectivity can find a digital medium to fit with its objectives.

Volonté de participer des habitants

Les habitants ne peuvent plus être vus dans la peau de simples « administrés », de consommateurs de politiques publiques. Il y a un sentiment d’exclusion de plus en plus grand des processus de prise de décision. la « démocratie participative » telle qu’elle existe aujourd’hui reste très institutionnalisée. Faute de moyens financiers et d’outils d’animation pour la faire vivre sincèrement, il s’agit souvent davantage de « marketing démocratique », ou de « technocratie de la participation », ne permettant pas d’avoir réellement prise sur le cours des choses. Les citoyens souhaitent désormais que chaque acteur puisse faire partie d'une concertation globale. La participation des habitants dans l'élaboration et la mise en place des projets de territoire sont des facteurs déterminants dans l'efficacité des politiques publiques.

Boîte à outils : le numérique peut rassembler tout un panel de fonctionnalités pour tout décideur politique qui souhaite prendre en compte le tournant numérique. Les outils numériques permettent notamment de faire appel à l’intelligence collective comme source de solutions innovantes et donnent la possibilité à de nombreuses personnes de travailler ensemble. Les applications permettent une utilisation en déplacement et la géolocalisation, mais aussi des dispositifs qui facilitent l’interaction, la visualisation et la transparence.

Usages : L’explosion du numérique dans notre vie quotidienne ouvre de grandes potentialités. Le développement du très haut débit, la montée en puissance de l’internet mobile, la généralisation de l’utilisation des objets connectés bouleverse les usages au sein des territoires. De nos jours de plus en plus de services (services en ligne, démarches administratives, budgets participatifs, ouverture des données publiques...) sont proposés sur des supports numériques ou au travers des objets connectés.

La citoyenneté numérique permet d’améliorer la gestion locale, par l'information et la sensibilisation des habitants, la connaissance du contexte local, la mobilisation des forces vives locales, et l'adhésion des citoyens à l'action publique. La politique locale représente à bien des égards un formidable terreau d’innovation démocratique.

COmmunecter : COnstruire ensemble l’avenir de votre territoire

Le projet COmmunecter est en cohérence avec les politiques publiques actuelles : innovation sociétale, mieux vivre ensemble, enjeux économiques actuels, le développement de modes de production et de consommation responsables, l'ouverture des données publiques aux citoyens, protection de l’environnement, participation citoyenne, politique de la ville, Projet de Rénovation Urbaine, Programme Investissement d’Avenir, ….

COmmunecter est adapté à tous les territoires quelque soit leur taille.

Le projet est porté par une association à but non lucratif OPEN-ATLAS basée à La Réunion avec une antenne à Lille et Strasbourg. Une équipe est spécialement mobilisée pour CO-construire la démarche avec vous :

Services offerts par la plateforme

Valoriser

La plateforme, un vrai système d’information territorial, offre les outils pour mettre en évidence les points forts, les atouts, les potentialités, les opportunités mais aussi les points faibles, les attentes des acteurs de chaque territoire et surtout, de proposer une synergie de territoire et des axes de projets pour rendre les différents territoires plus intelligents et interconnectés.
Chaque service peut être proposé à la carte et bénéficier d’un accompagnement de notre structure en fonction des besoins et des priorités de votre collectivité. Nous disposons également d’un véhicule COBUS équipé en matériel numérique qui va à la rencontre de la population pour accompagner les habitants (réduction de la fracture du numérique, promouvoir les alternatives…).

Cartographie par géolocalisation des acteurs et des ressources

Communecter est conçu pour permettre aux citoyens, associations, entreprises et, collectivité de visualiser l’activité de leur territoire. L’outil permet à tout moment de passer de la visualisation en liste à la cartographie interactive.

Cette fonction permet de valoriser et rendre visibles les infrastructures et services de la commune : parcs, piscines, aires de jeux, clubs 3eme age, infrastructures sportives, bibliothèques, services…

Rendre visible les services communaux

Animer
Développer la synergie de votre territoire
Système d'information communal et citoyen
Rendre votre territoire plus intelligent et interconnecté

S’organiser

Offres de services pour votre collectivité

To communect my media

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Local medias have a important role to play in society. They collect and spread a hill of informations linked to the local activity. Free medias hold fundamental values the "pixel humans" are strongly attached to.

"Association to liberate radio waves.
Listen to free radios."

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Opportunities on Communecter  :

  • share content (podcast, articles, ...) via territorialised publications
  • interact with other local organizations with mentions and comments
  • create and spread maps (partnership, member of community, ...)
  • present projects and events backed by the media
  • animate the community of journalists (chat,  intern agenda, collaborative space, ...)
  • participate to the local mutual aid network

Applications

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"Communecter in your pocket"

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