Common Sites Brochure 20110902(1)

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Current Strategic Partners and Founding Angels

The design o this brochure has been made fnancially possible by the kind support

o our frst Founding Angel CHSS - Cultural Heritage Systems & Strategies Pty Ltd.

CommonSites, Amsterdam, 2011 / [email protected]

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Introduction

CommonSites is an international initiative that pro-

vides a unique web-based platorm or the heritage

sector. CommonSites is a business-to-business social

venture, designed to unite unders and project part-

ners to beneft the communities or which we work.

Through our network o Trusted Partners we ensure

sustainable research and heritage projects that meet

the highest ethical and proessional standards.

Our innovative, yet proven technology allows projects

to be easily brought online and updated rom the feld.

This interactive ormat engages both unders and

communities by allowing them to access up-to-date

reports or projects they are interested in. Our web-

based platorm increases the visibility o heritage proj-

ects or all who are involved, whether they be unders,

project partners, academic institutions or members o

local communities.

Our open-source sotware can easily be integrated

to any current web-page using widgets. Project part-

ners will have individualized and corporate-branded

project-pages. Through dedicated support and

advice, CommonSites will assist project partners in

putting their unding, reporting and monitoring pro-

cesses online as seamlessly, easily and as transpar-

ent as possible.

Through our open-source sotware partners can use

CommonSites to fnd and share knowledge, raise

unds and simpliy reporting back to donors and com-

munity members. Experts and students can donate

time to help projects they are interested in. Funders

can ollow projects online and search or novel support

opportunities rom our network o Trusted Partners.

All humans share a common ancestry. Over the past two hundred millennia we have evolved diverse cultural

traditions across the planet. Every year thousands o archaeologists and heritage management specialists travel

into the feld, producing knowledge about the past and conserving heritage around the world. However, members

o the various communities interested in heritage projects or those directly impacted by archaeological research

struggle to gain access to this knowledge and rarely beneft rom these research and conservation initiatives.


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Problems we solve

Information Exchange:

Knowledge and know-how in the feld o

archaeology and heritage management

is available but is oten widely dis-

persed and hidden away in consultancy

reports and academic publications.

Both experts and communities are

oten unable to gain access to these

reports and keep up-to-date with the

wealth o inormation that is available.

Funding:

Heritage unding is currently limited in

its transparency and is not making ull

use o global public interest.

The heritage and research community

struggles to attract additional sources

o money. Funding or their projects is

very much a top-down approach with

either the unding bodies or heritage

specialists deciding where money is

spent. Currently there is no way or

local communities to organize and

attract unds or demand-driven

research projects directed at investigat-

ing their heritage.

Reporting and Visibility:

Projects struggle to share and visualize

results in an appealing way to unders

and the general public.

Projects are oten long in duration with

publications resulting only years ater

the initial data gathering phase. There

is no direct line o communication

between project managers, unders and

community members. Presently there

is no way to report on-going progress

and discoveries rom the feld. Funding

bodies and research institutions oten

wait months or years to see the results

o their investments.

Diversity of Approaches:

The heritage communities rom each

o the worlds major continents are

approaching the idea o heritage

management and unding schemes

rom a multitude o angles.

There is oten very little coordination o

eorts to ensure ethical management

principles and proessional approaches

to unding the research and conserva-

tion o sites around the world.

Our Solution:

CommonPedia

Our Solution:

Really Simple Reporting

Our Solution:

CommonSites Marketplace

Our Solution:

Trusted Partner Network


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Using the proven technology and innovative sotware

developed by our partner organization Akvo.org, Com-

monSites provides an elegant solution that builds on

the strengths o the IT sector. With the support o the

Dutch Ministry o Foreign Affairs and the Rabobank,

Akvo has developed an open-source sotware platorm

that is now being used by over 300 partners in the

water and sanitation sectors throughout the world. Our

strategic partnership with Akvo thereore guarantees

that we can apply a sustainable and proven technology

to the heritage feld.

We provide our integrated solutions to support our

community in sharing knowledge, simpliying report-

ing and raising unds while increasing cooperation in

the heritage sector.

CommonSites is geared to a new

generation of funders - donorscan pick projects they like to

support and watch progress

unfold, as the community teams

share updates, photos and movie

clips online.

Our solutions


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CommonPedia is an online, open-source, know-

ledge-sharing database. It provides up-to-date

entries on all aspects o heritage management, ar-

chaeological research, and easy to implement, cost

eective, capacity building, community outreach and

conservation solutions. It works just like Wikipedia.

In eect, CommonPedia will increase access to

inormation and reduce the costs o knowledge-

sharing.

The quality o the inormation is being overseen by a

group o proessionals as well as a dedicated editor.

We are looking to expand the online community o

viewers, supporters and contributors.

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By using Akvos RSR system we make it is easy or

ield teams to continuously report on projects with

short text and image-based updates online or via a

mobile phone. Through short text messages, pictures

and YouTube-style movies project managers can keep

donors, other specialists and interested members

o the public up-to-date with in-the-ield progress,

discoveries and results. Through the integration o

the low-cost and convenient RSR technology with

partner-b randed project-pages, organizatio ns can

eature 100% o their projects online as opposed

the select number o case studies typically eatured

in conventional reporting. The partner-branded

project-pages are simultaneously available in the

CommonSites database, on Akvo.org and on any

number o personal webpages, making projects rom

across the world easy to compare, opening the world

o heritage management to the global public.

Really Simple Reporting


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CommonSites Widgets

Anyone associated with a project can embed a RSR

widget on their website or blog. Widgets provide a

real-time window to the project inormation stored in

the CommonSites database, eectively advertising

and publishing all your projects and their progress.

They let you and your visitors see what is going on

as it happens. Our partners can even embed scrolling

sets and map overviews o projects, bringing their site

to lie with ield progress directly rom all the projects

they are unding or managing, while simpliying their

online publishing worklow.

Through the integration of the low-cost and convenient

RSR technology with partner-branded project-pages,

organizations can feature, maintain and update 100% of

their projects cheaply and easily.


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The CommonSites marketplace is a matchmaking

system making it possible to attract additional unds

or community outreach, capacity building and con-

servation eorts which operate alongside, but are

not traditionally unded by, scientiic and heritage

projects, increasing the beneit or local communi-

ties. By using the system designed by Akvo, and their

partners including Rabobank, we ensure a reliable,

international and online payment system which is

completely transparent rom donor to recipient.

CommonSites Marketplace helps unding bodies

source the best projects to support and ind co-

unders to partner with. It also simpliies the process

o running campaigns involving lots o organizations

rom around the world.

CommonSites Marketplace


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nation o eorts rom Trusted Partners rom across

the globe impacting unding and policy or uture

heritage projects. Our project-branded RSR and

project-pages make it easy or partner institutions

to increase their visibility without having to increase

their web-based eorts.

Through ournetwork of Trusted

Partners we ensure

sustainable research

and heritage

projects that meet

the highest qualityand most up-to-

date professional

standards.

Our network o Trusted Partners assists in careully

selecting the Field partners which are allowed to post

heritage projects online. Working with these Trusted

Partners ensures we meet the highest quality stan-

dards and practices or both scientiic and heritage

based projects. Our system also ensures the coordi-

Network of Trusted Partners


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be at the oreront o an initiative that seeks to revolutionize the way inormation technology is used

in the archaeological and heritage feld

get a place-at-the-table with some o the leading heritage organizations and academic institutions

around the world

be mentioned as a Founding Angel in our frst news cycle

gain the rights to urther broadcast our shared vision, and use the innovative brand o CommonSites

or your commercial and/or PR purposes

choose a transparent support package as a Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum investor.

Why support CommonSites?

Share our belie that the use o modern technology in the heritage ield can help the communities or which

we work.

As a Founding Angel active in the feld o archaeology

and heritage management, you can become a Trusted

Partner. This guarantees you two projects put online

or ree or one year and allows you access to the

Join the Founding Family and:

projects o other partners involved in CommonSites.

Our parter-branded project-pages will increase your

visibility among others in the feld and the global com-

munity at large.


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We are approaching leading experts rom around the world, each with proven records o ethical and quality

standards to join our Founding Family. Initial unding will be used to urther design and maintain all systems o

CommonSites, put projects online and ensure the quality and standards o all projects on CommonSites.net.

What do we need?

After one year we will have:

a ully unctioning web-platorm with at least 10

Trusted Partners and 20 projects online

raised a sizable amount rom additional donors

and unding bodies

a proessional business model or when the

platorm is ully operational (Phase 02)

The CommonSites business model will be based upon

the proven business model o Akvo.org, but suitably

adapted to the archaeological and heritage feld.

Under supervision o our Board o Advisors and in

collaboration with a graduate rom the Global Entre-

preneurship Program (Babson College, USA; EMLYON,

France; Zhejiang University, China), we are working on

a business model containing a detailed break-down

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Become a Founding Angel. Pick and choose a transparent support package as a

Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum investor.

Bronze Package 2.500e Silver Package 5.000e Gold Package 10.000e Platinum Package 50.000e

Staff 40.000e

10.000 General Director

10.000 Scientiic Director

10.000 Creative Director

5.000 Project Assistant

5.000 Technical Assistant

Total 75.000e

Web Platform 17.500e

12.500 Web-platorm

2.500 Web- and Corporate Design

2.500 Domain-names and Hosting

Infrastructure 7.500e

5.000 IT Hardware

2.500 Oices and admin equipment

Operating Costs 10.000e

2.500 Corporate Identity and PR

5.000 Travel

2.500 Representation Costs

Budget Phase 01 (ca. 1 year operation)


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Sjoerd van der Linde

Sjoerd van der Linde is General Director and Co-

Founder o CommonSites. He combines his ield

experience and network in archaeology and heritage

management with his background in web-design and

heritage presentation. Sjoerd is responsible or the

overall strategy and management o CommonSites,

and in charge o partnerships. Besides this, he cur-

rently is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty o

Archaeology, Leiden University in the ield o Archae-

ological Heritage Management. Previously, he worked

as Head o Site Management and Interpretation at the

Centre or Applied Archaeology o University College

London, and as Interpretation Oicer Stonehenge at

English Heritage. He has undertaken projects in the

UK, Palestine, Turkmenistan, Mali, Jordan, Syria and

the Dutch Antilles.

Adam Jagich

Adam Jagich is Scientiic Director and Co-Founder

o CommonSites. He combines his knowledge o

archaeology and his general love or science with his

ield experience and contacts in the archaeological

and scientiic communities to bring knowledge and

inormation to the general public. He is responsible

or project management and web-based content

o CommonPedia. Besides this he is currently a

researcher and lecturer at Leiden University in the

department o Human Origins. His previous research

has taken him around the world with excavations in

Belize, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Kenya, Germany and the

United Kingdom.

David de Bruijne

David de Bruijne is Creative Director and Co-Founder

o CommonSites. He has broad experience in the

ield o multi-media and design and is passionate

about making a dierence through new media. He is

responsible or the realization and optimization o the

design, ront- and back-end o CommonSites.net.

David currently works as a Creative Producer or Taxi,

an internationally renowned advertising agency. He

has been involved with setting up the studio or Taxi

Netherlands, and has worked or MTV.

His educational background is a combination o

Industrial Design at TU Delt and Image & Media

Technology at Utrecht Arts Academy. His love or

suring has taken him around the world.

Management


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Board of advisors

Prof. Dr. Willem Willems

Pro. Dr. Willem Willems, Dean, Faculty o Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Co-President International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM)

Dr. Steven Engelsman

Director General, Museum Volkenkunde, The Netherlands

Mr. Bram Ellens

Partner, Harvest Online Business Development, The Netherlands

Mr. Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson

Co-ounder and Co-director, Akvo.org, The Netherlands/Sweden

Contact


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Online demo

Visit the demo:

www.commonsites.net/test/

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Documents

Common Sites Brochure 20110902(1)