Tools

We recommend the following tools to enhance your innovation's process and development.
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The Societal Readiness Assessment platform. This is a prototype version. Contact Monika Buscher to experiment. Assess the societal readiness of your innovation and co-design SoRA. SoRA is currently tailored to innovations in decarbonising transport, but we're very happy to discuss other applications.

This tool is helpful if you would like to evaluate the societal readiness of your innovation.

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The isITethical Game invites you to playfully explore ethical, legal and social issues arising in information sharing for public safety communications. Watch a video of the game being played here. 

This tool is helpful if you would like to develop your understanding and capacity to creatively address ethical, legal and social issues

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Represents all the stakeholders involved in a project, aimed at clarifying roles and relationships, while considering the broader ecosystem. The map’s layout is depending on the desirable complexity that needs to be addressed and it seeks to discover unexplored additional partners.
This tool is helpful if you would like to strengthen Process and/or Integration.

Coming soon.


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Provides an overview of one or more hypothetical future scenarios and works backwards to identify the steps needed to to move from the present situation to a future one. Using backcasting, stakeholders can reflect on different directions and consider how they can modify their work today to achieve a desired future or avoid an unwanted one.
This tool is helpful if you would like to strengthen Objectives and/or Impact.
Coming soon...

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Co-design is a design-led process that uses creative and participatory methods, designing with and not for people. It challenges the power imbalances held by individuals, who make important decisions about others’ lives and empowers people who will be most impacted by those decisions, by including them in the decision-making process.
This tool is helpful if you would like to strengthen Objectives and/or Process.
Coming soon...

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Stimulates discussion around SoRA’s key principles. Travelling Tales players use storytelling and roleplay to explore potential implications of innovations for different stakeholders.
This tool is helpful if you would like to strengthen Process and/or Integration.
Coming soon...

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Developed in collaboration with the DecarboN8 Stakeholder Reference Group, these questions are a starting point for reflections on the societal readiness of low-carbon mobility innovations.
This tool is helpful if you would like to strengthen Objectives, Impact, Process and/or Integration.