The Story of Planet Crust
Technological freedom and digital sovereignty through open-source, open standards and open data.
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The Story of Planet Crust
Planet Crust was born out of a desire to create a fully open platform that will move the world towards global data harmony, thereby helping us maintain continued economic growth within the finite space that is our planet Earth.
A Platform Without Limitations
The idea for Planet Crust first took shape when we experienced firsthand how the open-source industry regularly fails to create high-quality, user-friendly products with open standards, applications and business models.
This inspired us to create a truly open-source product with as few technological, operational, fiscal and legal limitations as possible that would also deliver a stellar user experience along with a powerful set of features.
We also wanted to create a product that was not only a viable but a better alternative to the low-code and structured data management platforms of some of the world’s leading business software clouds, such as Microsoft, SAP and Salesforce.
Finally, we wanted to create a product that would help break down the barriers that prevent people and organizations from delivering the sustainable economies the world requires if it’s going to survive.
And so Corteza was born – a 100% open-source low-code app development, workflow and integration platform based on fully open standards and principles.
Breaking Down Barriers
With the launch of Corteza in February 2019, we aimed not only to break down the technological barrier that all low-code platforms have broken down but to offer a product that is free and accessible to all in every way, that can be deployed both locally or internationally, on the cloud or on an organization’s own servers, and where ownership rights to the apps an organization builds on the platform remain with the organization.
The result is that every organization in the world has access to Corteza and is never left isolated from technology and data.
Data Sovereignty
In the next step towards achieving our vision, Crust Technology rebranded as Planet Crust in November 2021 as we aimed to break the next barrier to digital freedom – the data barrier.
By connecting with and accepting data from any third-party software platform or cloud, Corteza makes collaboration possible across or even between business enterprises, local governments, NGOs, emergency response units or disaster relief organizations.
By federating on a many-to-many basis, Corteza ensures that no organization’s activity is locked in a silo, but can instead extend to a global scale. Businesses can operate and cooperate more efficiently. Cities can respond to situations and emergencies faster and with the right resources. Relief agencies can share data and innovate solutions without bumping into security protocols.
By enabling searches within or between data federations, organizations can find the information they need to collaborate, solve problems or grow together, whether they are research institutes, industrial affiliates, smart cities or public health authorities.
All data stored in Corteza is Linked Data, enabling Corteza to serve as a data backend to popular, mass-adopted CMS technology such as WordPress and Drupal.
In addition, our privacy management infrastructure allows end-users and organizations to visualize where their data is stored anywhere in Corteza federations and then manage that data from a single point of entry.
Moving Towards Sustainable Economies
Together, these steps will serve to harmonize all the data of the organizations that use Corteza. As more and more organizations adopt Corteza, the world will move towards global data harmony, allowing us to catalogue and measure our finite resources and overlay what we know about how to exploit them with the social implications of doing so. This will make it possible for responsible leaders in the public and private sectors to make ethical decisions that will lead the world to circular, sustainable economies.
This is our vision at Planet Crust.
Corteza
Planet Crust publishes all Corteza code at https://github.com/cortezaproject and contributes it to the Commons Conservancy Foundation, a non-profit open-source software foundation based in the Netherlands. Corteza is licensed under an Apache 2.0 license and is, and always will be, freely available to all.
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