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The goal is to drive environmental stewardship! The public's key tool to achieve this goal is their social licence!

The public has an critical role to play in ensuring that they check, approve and promote only projects that drive positive environmental stewardship.

The concept of social licence is simple and already well established and made up of the key concepts below.

Every member of a community has the right to give or withhold their "licence" (i.e. approval or disapproval) of a company based on their previous or intended actions in regards to environmental stewardship.
Informed "licence" - Everybody should be informed of all aspects that relate to their choice to grant their social licence.
Prior consent - Companies should ensure they get and keep social licence prior to and during any project.

Analytical graphics

Analytical graphics are designed to grab your attention with a traffic light system:

Red, Stop! Check out why the community hasn’t given their licence.

Grey, Hmm not enough data yet, submit or withhold your licence!

Green, Great! Promote this company to your friends!

Analytical traffic graphics are deliberately designed to provide a binary good/bad, green/red assessment. Obviously the data and the world is more complex than a binary answer, we hope a red signal will make you stop and check the situation carefully for yourself.

Where do you come in?

Well it's your licence, your data and your tool to get a handle on who's working for a better future and who is not.

The key missing mechanisms

Public facing data: The key missing mechanism here is that public "social licence" data is rarely compiled and publicly published. Aren't you interested which company does and doesn't have the public's "social licence"?

Our solution - Social Licence app

Giving you a place to keep and change your "licence" on each company.
Providing a public facing "Social licence" snapshot of how well a company is doing so you can decide if you want to support them by buying their products.

Social licence app

The specific goal of these social licence mechanisms are:

Highlight and promote companies or groups that are actively contributing to environmental stewardship.

How does it work?

The basics:

Set up a user account and wait for us to verify you.
Select the category of social licence you want to research (Community or Scientific opinion).
Select your geographical region of interest (global/Country/State) and other filter options (verified or unverified data).
Select a company and hit search.
Check the information available in the "Report card" section.
Grant or withhold your "social licence" for the company and submit your licence.
If you want a more analytical breakdown or additional tools, then this is also available.

Data privacy

Your personal information will never be publicly available to any user (unless you specify that you want your licence made public, it will be stored in accordance with academic data polices below, restricting access to key academic personal.

To ensure data quality we will ask for the following essential and optional data fields.

Essential- Full name, Category of "licence" (Scientific or community)

Optional - Suburb/State/Country where you live, occupation.

How much does it cost?

It's free for the general public and scientific users. Because really its your data!

For users wanting to access more advanced analytics, rights to use graphics for promotional purposes and additional scientific products there is a tiered user pay system.