The project is about the delivery of Espra -- an open source, web-based social platform that sets out to improve quality of life and create new market opportunities by helping to efficiently organise people, ideas and resources. Espra will significantly improve people's ability to function in the digital world by tackling information overload and allowing content creators to get paid for their work.
To this end Espra brings together innovative solutions built around Trust Maps, which will help people filter and overcome information overload, and a Reputation Economy, which will enable content creators to get rewarded for their works through aggregated micropayments.
Espra fulfills parts of the Technology Strategy Board's wider Digital Britain Strategy of enabling "a sustainable marketplace for intellectual property" and helping create "economic and social benefit from increasing volumes of information".
The ability to filter information flow through Trust Maps and the use of aggregated micropayments