{"id":28456,"date":"2022-01-17T10:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T09:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/smarketplace-everywhere-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:03:06","slug":"smarketplace-everywhere-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/smarketplace-everywhere-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"SmarketPlace: everywhere in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Article de Antonin Calderon, APR\u00c8S, Geneva<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Under the dual pressure of online multinationals and large-scale distribution, we have been witnessing the disappearance of small shops, sometimes century-old brands, as well as local craft activities for several decades. The products offered for consumption are often of lower quality, and they are imported from far away, aggravating the climate crisis. The management of the COVID-19 crisis has accentuated this process.<\/p>\n<p>It is becoming necessary and urgent to offer the possibility of buying local, quality products online, produced under dignified social conditions, and which preserve the personal data of consumers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27955\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27955\" class=\"wp-image-27955 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/smartketplace_order-.png\" alt=\"Model of the generic application designed during the VersusVirus Hackathon\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Model of the generic application designed during the VersusVirus Hackathon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The many platforms created in recent years already partly meet this demand for local and sustainable products, but they are usually very sector-specific (&#8220;fruit and vegetables&#8221; or &#8220;drinks&#8221; or &#8220;groceries&#8221;, etc.). They cannot compete with the large platforms that offer a very wide range of products and even services. And none of them really protect their customers&#8217; personal data.<\/p>\n<p>Taking advantage of the online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fr.versusvirus.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hackathon against the Codid-19 &#8220;Versus Virus&#8221;<\/a> (April 2020), APR\u00c8S and Monnaie L\u00e9man [1] have taken up this commercial, economic, ethical, ecological and social challenge by creating the <strong>SmartketPlace platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SmartketPlace<\/strong> is a generalist digital marketplace. The software is free and <em>open source<\/em>. <em>It is generic and replicable, i.e. it is easy to adapt to local applications.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SmartketPlace<\/strong> has all the functions necessary for e-commerce: registration of individuals and companies [2], sale\/purchase of goods and services (constitution of a &#8220;basket&#8221;; payment in different means of payment (including complementary local currency); and (iii) home delivery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On this basis, and specifically for Geneva, <strong>GE Consomme Local<\/strong> was designed.<\/p>\n<p>The application is based on a &#8220;meta-platform&#8221; designed to articulate local producers and delivery companies committed to sustainability, as well as all local sectoral platforms that are globally committed or offer ranges of products and services labelled according to sustainability criteria.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"261\" class=\"wp-image-27930 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/image_geconsommelocal_web-1.png\" alt=\"Prototype of the platform (webapp) developed specifically for Geneva\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What is <em>smart<\/em> is to offer both <em>a single site<\/em> for consumers and decentralised management by producers, sectoral marketplaces and delivery companies themselves [3].<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27943\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27943\" class=\"wp-image-27943 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/image_geconsommelocal_app-2.png\" alt=\"Prototype of the platform (app) developed specifically for Geneva\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prototype of the platform (app) developed specifically for Geneva<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>GE Consomme local<\/strong> is conceived as a communal, non-profit commercial structure of collective interest. Its ownership and governance are shared between the production, distribution and consumption actors who use it.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss Confederation has already granted a subsidy of 20,000 Swiss francs for the finalisation of the IT development. The last General Assembly of RIPESS-Europe decided to support <strong>SmartketPlace,<\/strong> with the aim of proposing to other cities or other living areas in Europe to engage in this transition process by adapting the software to their local reality, thus constituting, after Geneva, <strong>a pool of pilot experiences reinforcing each other.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>[1] APR\u00c8S is the Geneva network of the social and solidarity economy (<a href=\"http:\/\/apres-ge.ch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apres-ge.ch<\/a>) and Monnaie L\u00e9man is the local currency of the Lake Geneva region (<a href=\"http:\/\/monnaie-leman.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">monnaie-leman.org<\/a>); together they bring together more than 800 companies.<\/h5>\n<h5>[2] The protocol protects personal data.<\/h5>\n<h5>[3] Through the use of data aggregation and synchronisation protocols.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article de Antonin Calderon, APR\u00c8S, Geneva Under the dual pressure of online multinationals and large-scale distribution, we have been witnessing the disappearance of small shops, sometimes century-old brands, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaborative-platforms","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}