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Development update

Oppla is a community-driven marketplace and enquiry service that connects users to nature-based solutions. It provides a hub of information, advice, and tools for understanding and obtaining relevant knowledge. With a focus on new users, Oppla offers a unique platform for collaboration and co-design, encouraging the sharing and selling of products and services related to nature-based solutions.

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Development update

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  1. Development update Paul Mahony, Countryscape

  2. What is Oppla?

  3. What is Oppla’s purpose?

  4. Oppla is a community

  5. Oppla is a community

  6. Oppla is a marketplace

  7. Oppla is an enquiry service

  8. Oppla is a partnership • Joint activity between OpenNESS and OPERAs • Funded by the European Commission FP7 Programme • Over 60 universities, research institutes, agencies and businesses

  9. Oppla is a portal

  10. Users want to: Understand the concepts Identify what they need Obtain what they need Be assured of quality Seek advice when required Share their successes Achieve impact Understanding users’ needs

  11. Understanding user types

  12. What are the benefits? For new users: • Understand what information is most relevant/useful • Access that information as easily as possible For experienced users: • Reach wider audiences and increase impact • Find new clients in emerging markets

  13. Links with other platforms

  14. Collaboration not competition Identifying points of difference Data harvesting Shared data formats Focusing on new users A portal to other platforms A hub of information

  15. How is Oppla different? • Accessible to users from different sectors • Innovative marketplace and enquiry service • Quality Assurance process reduces uncertainty • A truly open platform – open to everyone

  16. Ask Oppla

  17. Ask Oppla “Oppla is the library; Ask Oppla is the librarian”

  18. Ask Oppla • Crowd-sourced enquiry service – the facility to have your questions answered by the Oppla community • Short and simple answers – signposting users to useful advice, tools and techniques • Designed for new users – helping people who might not know where to start

  19. Marketplace • A platform where products and services and can be shared, searched for and sold:Data, software, guidance, case studies, training, events, consultancy services, etc • Learning from the commercial sector

  20. Marketplace • A “one stop shop” for nature-based solutions • Standardised product descriptions • Smart search and filters make products easy to find • Easy to add new products and link to other platforms • Encourages collaboration and co-design

  21. Quality assurance • Online system of self-certification • Suppliers evidence their own QA processes – eg.peer review, ISO Standards, case studies, testimonials • Enables users to make better-informed judgments about the usefulness and reliability of information • Can easily be applied to data/products hosted on other platforms

  22. Sustainability is important

  23. Revenue streams • Information repository: publishing and promoting research outputs • Marketplace: enabling the sale of commercial products and services • Corporate membership: premium benefits for sponsor organisations • Events and training: workshops, conferences and webinars on nature-based solutions

  24. Where are we now? • Oppla prototype • Business plan and legal entity • Outreach and community-building • Ask Oppla service now launched…

  25. Prototype (Beta launch 03.16)

  26. Governance and operations • Legal entity • Business plan • Relationships with other platforms and projects

  27. Timeline • Ask Oppla (public Beta): launched! • Oppla (private Alpha launch): March 2016 • Oppla (public Beta launch): September 2016 • Oppla full launch: 2017…

  28. Website

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