Give evidence a place to meet.
RoarSoar exists because there is currently no global platform that allows people to organise evidence, collaborate on solutions and transform fragmented information into coordinated action on environmental and human-rights issues.
RoarSoar grew from firsthand experience trying to develop collaborative environmental and human-rights legal cases and campaigns.
Evidence exists everywhere. A community member may witness environmental damage. A scientist may hold relevant research. A photographer may document what is happening. A lawyer may recognise a legal argument. An Indigenous community may hold generations of knowledge about the affected land. Government documents, satellite imagery, historical records and personal testimony may each reveal another part of the story.
It is envisioned as a geolocated global platform where environmental and human-rights issues can be documented, mapped and collaboratively developed. People could contribute evidence, photographs, testimony, research and documents to structured issue profiles, while researchers, experts, communities and advocates work together to understand what the accumulated evidence shows and what can be done about it.
- Community testimony
- Scientific research
- Photography and video
- Legal arguments
- Indigenous knowledge
- Government records
- Satellite imagery
- Historical evidence
From scattered information to coordinated action
Every day, people witness environmental destruction, human-rights abuses and other issues affecting their communities. Scientists produce research. Journalists investigate. Lawyers develop legal arguments. Communities document their lived experience. Governments publish reports. Citizens capture photographs and video.
Yet evidence remains fragmented across thousands of organisations, websites, databases, social-media platforms, academic journals, legal files and personal computers. Valuable knowledge is repeatedly lost, duplicated or overlooked because there is no common place where it can be organised, developed collaboratively and translated into coordinated action.
RoarSoar is not intended to be simply another social network or document repository. It is conceived as a collaborative evidence environment: a place where information can be organised geographically, developed collectively and transformed into practical responses to human-rights, community and environmental issues.
A living evidence record
Each map marker could represent an evolving evidence record rather than a disappearing social-media post. Inside it, separate visual sections could organise the issue, evidence, testimony, images and video, science, law, research, timelines, responses, proposed solutions and the collaborative case.
Contributors could distinguish allegations and testimony from independently verified evidence. Competing evidence could be preserved rather than deleted, allowing people to inspect the material supporting and challenging a proposition with the underlying sources available to everyone.
At the heart of every issue would be a RoarSoar Board—a visual collaborative workspace where photographs, research papers, legal arguments, testimony, timelines, maps and documents can be dragged into meaningful relationships. The case can evolve visually as understanding develops.
Evidence, however compelling, rarely changes the world in isolation. Meaningful change occurs when it can be organised, understood, challenged, refined and transformed into coordinated action.