The base of the ARTICONF platform is the Trust and Integration Controller #TIC tool, a Cloud-agnostic #BaaS deployed on a federated Cloud infrastructure, currently connected to OpenStack, AWS and Google Cloud.

Although a small number of platforms (e.g. Steem, Akasha) addressing similar goals exist, ARTICONF is the first European open-source initiative that builds its solution on a Cloud-agnostic BaaS federated infrastructure.

The Energy Marketplace DApp brings energy providers and consumers together by developing a federated renewable energy trading platform offering trustworthy and incentivised energy usage, selling and buying features. @bitYogaAS

The Video Opinion Discussion DApp complements crowd journalism by engaging citizens in continuous, timezone-proof democratic opinion discussion threads and generates tamperproof video lifecycle events on a decentralised, federated Cloud platform. @vialog_io

The Carsharing DApp creates a social network for cars, rented and shared by passengers directly from their owners. DApp proposes a trustworthy, reputation-based business model amd transparent pricing, eliminating intermediary companies operating centralised fleets. @AgiliaCenter

Focus Group participants emphasised the risks regarding reputation systems in social media, posing essential questions: “who determines what is good and what is bad, and how to prevent exclusion from certain parties?” “how to decide what content gives how much reputation?”

The Crowd Journalism DApp allows regular citizens to capture live videos and stream them in real-time, creating comprehensive joint event footage that accommodates diverse angles and perspectives, with integrated fake news identification and filtering. @MOGTechnologies