Essence
The Alkemio Platform provides dedicated digital homes for communities and programmes that need to collaborate across organisational boundaries. It combines structured spaces for alignment, guided workflows for innovation, and built-in community management — all on infrastructure that is open source, digitally sovereign, and designed to benefit society rather than extract from it.
Who It’s For
The Platform serves multi-stakeholder ecosystems — settings where multiple organisations must work together on shared challenges but have no shared infrastructure to do so. The primary personas are:
- Facilitators — who orchestrate collaboration across parties
- Contributors — who participate in initiatives and bring expertise
- Portfolio Owners — who need oversight across multiple initiatives
- Potential Contributors — who want to discover and join relevant initiatives
Problems It Addresses
Ecosystem-Level
- no-shared-workspace — No neutral, shared environment for cross-boundary work
- no-neutral-ground — Each party’s tools feel “owned” — not suitable for joint work
- collaboration-effort-underestimated — The effort required for effective collaboration is systematically underestimated
- facilitator-role-undervalued — The facilitator role is invisible when it works and blamed when it doesn’t
- knowledge-loss-after-projects — Institutional memory disappears when projects end
Persona-Level
- communication-fragmentation — Conversations scattered across email, Teams, WhatsApp
- tool-fatigue — Too many tools, none purpose-built for multi-stakeholder collaboration
- information-discovery — Hard to find the right information across organisational boundaries
How It Works
- Spaces — Each community or programme gets a dedicated Space: a structured environment with its own members, roles, forums, documents, and sub-initiatives
- Subspaces — Within a Space, initiatives are organised as Subspaces with guided workflows (challenges, opportunities) that structure the collaboration journey
- Community tools — Forums, direct messaging, and group chat keep conversation in context rather than scattered across external tools
- Connectors — Integration points that link to external documents and task systems, meeting organisations where their existing workflows live
- Portfolio view — Dashboards and ecosystem maps give Portfolio Owners visibility across all initiatives in their domain
What Makes It Different
- Purpose-built for multi-stakeholder collaboration — not a generic project tool or social network adapted for the purpose
- Digitally sovereign — open source, EU-hosted, steward-owned foundation; data stays under the community’s control
- Facilitation-first design — tools and workflows designed around the facilitator’s needs, not just the participant’s
- Structured yet flexible — guided workflows for innovation alongside open collaboration spaces
- Values-aligned — built by a foundation whose mission is societal benefit, not profit extraction
Success Metrics
- Number of active Spaces with regular cross-organisational participation
- Facilitator retention and satisfaction (NPS)
- Reduction in tool fragmentation for participating organisations
- Community engagement depth (contributions per member over time)
- Portfolio Owner adoption of oversight features
Editions
| Edition | Beachhead | Status |
|---|---|---|
| public-sector-nl | Dutch public-sector innovation centres | active |
| coalition-builders | Coalition and programme facilitators | planned |