pARtcours is a joint venture between Martina Bachmann and Sacha Bertram, founded in 2011. pARtcours produces interactive content in the form of smartphone apps and the web applications. The company is focused on the development of augmented reality applications for information & entertainment, marketing, accessibility for museums, arts, culture & education. The designers and developers of pARtcours dedicate 10-20% of their time to charitable projects, which they support or initiate.
21. Financing
Covers research costs, costs for licenses and marketing
Crowdfunding platforms
z.B. Indiegogo, Start Next, Kickstarter…
Donations through PayPal, etc.
Directly from within the app
On http://stolpersteine-muenchen-app.de
Donations have positive side effects:
You always have something to talk about…
and you are always in the news
Donations create involvement
Donator has something to tell his friends about
Creates a monetary value to the symbolic value of
virtual Stolpersteine
23. Translations to other languages
Research (text and picture)
Test-users for new app versions
Keyword: CROWDSOURCING
Beware of sabotage / vandalism
Requires that all crowd-sourced work is thoroughly checked
Automation is not recommended
Collaboration
25. Social Media
Encourage users to share their experience
i.e. from within the app or our home page
Or conventionally through app flyers etc.
i.e. in museums, cafes, cultural institutions etc.
Spread
the word
31. There is still a lot to do…
English language version, either through crowd sourcing or financed by crowd funding
Stronger participation of victims associations, relatives or descendants of victims…
Biographies, documents, photos, diary entries…
Scanning of these documents, which very often end up in the trash after some time
Articles about historic backgrounds
Completed by photos and other documents
Stronger integration of social media
Stolpersteine-tours for interesting biographies
i.e. for schools or groups of tourists
Search feature integration:
Name, address, date of birth etc.
Online update of content, which is currently available online etc.
Big discussion leading to the city of Munich prohibiting Stolpersteine in Munich.
Lead us to the thought: “why not make a Stolpersteine Munich app and put virtual stolpersteine in the streets?”
Then: who’s going to finance this? Then: why not ask the city of Munich?