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Type of site | Crowdfunding for donations |
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Available in | English, Spanish, and other 9 languages |
Headquarters | , |
Owner | Goteo Foundation |
Created by | Platoniq non-profit |
URL | https://goteo.org |
Launched | November 3, 2011[1] |
Current status | Active |
Goteo is a crowdfunding site which focuses on projects which, apart from giving individual rewards, also generate a collective return through promoting the commons, open source code and/or free knowledge. [2] It allows contributions in the form of monetary donations or in the form of tasks collaborating with the projects. [2] The platform started in 2011, [3] and is run by the Barcelona-based non-profit Goteo Foundation. [4] According to its site statistics, as of 2023, it has raised $17 million, with a rate of project success of 83% (90% in recent years), and a community of 185.000 users. [5] It claims it was the first free/open source crowdfunding platform, [3] and it tags itself as "the open source crowdfunding platform". [6]
The website started in 2011 as an initiative of Platoniq, a non-profit focused on civic participation and social innovation since 2001. [7] [8] In 2012, Platoniq creates the Goteo Foundation [9] to manage the platform, and open sources the platform source code [3] under an AGPLv3 license. [6]
From 2014 to 2017, it received active support from the European Cultural Foundation, [10] organizing Goteo workshops internationally. [11] In 2014, it won the European Democratic Citizenship Award as "NGO of the Year" by the European Civic Forum. [12] [13] The same year, it also won the distinction award Prix Ars Electronica in the Digital Communities category. [14] [15]
Since 2018, it started partnering with funder organizations which have their own "channels" in the platform, including the participatory political party Ahora Madrid, [16] the Barcelona city council, [17] [18] Fiare ethical bank, [19] and the University of Málaga. [20] In the past, it also reached partnerships with cultural portal Europeana, the International University of Andalucía, the regional governments of Extremadura and Basque Country, and the city councils of Zaragoza [21] and Gipuzkoa. [22]
Goteo claims its main distinctive features [9] as a crowdfunding platform, in comparison with other larger ones like Kickstarter, are the following:
The platform supports a broad diversity of projects, as long as they respect their openness requirements. According to its statistics, [5] the largest categories of projects are social (20%), cultural (15%), education (15%) and environmental (13%). Other projects include technological (10%), entrepreneurship (9%), communication (8%) and scientific (7%).
The top 10 funded projects all received 60-100K€, and covered different types of journalism (investigative, [29] feminist, [30] political, [31] [32] fact-checking [33]), migrant-made clothing, [34] a documentary, [35] a reforestation effort, [36] and a children magazine, [37] a primary school. [38] Other smaller funding projects have received press attention, such as those for art experimentation, [39] local cinema, [40] food delivery co-ops, [41] pollution-free schools, [42] programming education, [43] or an anti-eviction platform. [44]
The platform was highlighted by Nesta, [45] and The Guardian included it in its "10 social innovators to watch". [46] It was selected by Crowdsourcing Week in its 2019 "Top 15 Crowdfunding Platforms in Europe". [47] It was mentioned as a salient example of platform cooperative by the Transnational Institute, [48] and as an example of "quiet activism" by news sites Phys.org [49] and The Conversation. [50] Goteo belongs to the European Crowdfunding Network, [51] which highlighted it as one of its three case studies of civic crowdfunding experiences. [52] The OECD highlighted it in its analysis of civic crowdfunding. [53] It has appeared in several research articles around crowdfunding, both in reviews of the field [54] [55] [56] [57] or as a case-study. [58] [59] [60]
Its source code was forked and deployed in Japan, rebranded as the platform Local Good Yokohama, [61] [62] supported by the City Council of Yokohama and Accenture. [63] This platform has received widespread attention in Japanese media. [64] [65] [66]
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Type of site | Crowdfunding for donations |
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Available in | English, Spanish, and other 9 languages |
Headquarters | , |
Owner | Goteo Foundation |
Created by | Platoniq non-profit |
URL | https://goteo.org |
Launched | November 3, 2011[1] |
Current status | Active |
Goteo is a crowdfunding site which focuses on projects which, apart from giving individual rewards, also generate a collective return through promoting the commons, open source code and/or free knowledge. [2] It allows contributions in the form of monetary donations or in the form of tasks collaborating with the projects. [2] The platform started in 2011, [3] and is run by the Barcelona-based non-profit Goteo Foundation. [4] According to its site statistics, as of 2023, it has raised $17 million, with a rate of project success of 83% (90% in recent years), and a community of 185.000 users. [5] It claims it was the first free/open source crowdfunding platform, [3] and it tags itself as "the open source crowdfunding platform". [6]
The website started in 2011 as an initiative of Platoniq, a non-profit focused on civic participation and social innovation since 2001. [7] [8] In 2012, Platoniq creates the Goteo Foundation [9] to manage the platform, and open sources the platform source code [3] under an AGPLv3 license. [6]
From 2014 to 2017, it received active support from the European Cultural Foundation, [10] organizing Goteo workshops internationally. [11] In 2014, it won the European Democratic Citizenship Award as "NGO of the Year" by the European Civic Forum. [12] [13] The same year, it also won the distinction award Prix Ars Electronica in the Digital Communities category. [14] [15]
Since 2018, it started partnering with funder organizations which have their own "channels" in the platform, including the participatory political party Ahora Madrid, [16] the Barcelona city council, [17] [18] Fiare ethical bank, [19] and the University of Málaga. [20] In the past, it also reached partnerships with cultural portal Europeana, the International University of Andalucía, the regional governments of Extremadura and Basque Country, and the city councils of Zaragoza [21] and Gipuzkoa. [22]
Goteo claims its main distinctive features [9] as a crowdfunding platform, in comparison with other larger ones like Kickstarter, are the following:
The platform supports a broad diversity of projects, as long as they respect their openness requirements. According to its statistics, [5] the largest categories of projects are social (20%), cultural (15%), education (15%) and environmental (13%). Other projects include technological (10%), entrepreneurship (9%), communication (8%) and scientific (7%).
The top 10 funded projects all received 60-100K€, and covered different types of journalism (investigative, [29] feminist, [30] political, [31] [32] fact-checking [33]), migrant-made clothing, [34] a documentary, [35] a reforestation effort, [36] and a children magazine, [37] a primary school. [38] Other smaller funding projects have received press attention, such as those for art experimentation, [39] local cinema, [40] food delivery co-ops, [41] pollution-free schools, [42] programming education, [43] or an anti-eviction platform. [44]
The platform was highlighted by Nesta, [45] and The Guardian included it in its "10 social innovators to watch". [46] It was selected by Crowdsourcing Week in its 2019 "Top 15 Crowdfunding Platforms in Europe". [47] It was mentioned as a salient example of platform cooperative by the Transnational Institute, [48] and as an example of "quiet activism" by news sites Phys.org [49] and The Conversation. [50] Goteo belongs to the European Crowdfunding Network, [51] which highlighted it as one of its three case studies of civic crowdfunding experiences. [52] The OECD highlighted it in its analysis of civic crowdfunding. [53] It has appeared in several research articles around crowdfunding, both in reviews of the field [54] [55] [56] [57] or as a case-study. [58] [59] [60]
Its source code was forked and deployed in Japan, rebranded as the platform Local Good Yokohama, [61] [62] supported by the City Council of Yokohama and Accenture. [63] This platform has received widespread attention in Japanese media. [64] [65] [66]
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