Manage, communicate, evaluate and monitor your action plan through Linea21

Linea21 is free and open-source software, your partner in implementing your action plan. Initially designed to monitor public policies for sustainable development, it adapts to all types of project management and reporting requirements.

The platform is widely used for implementing public policies in diverse fields such as ecological and climate transition, waste management, housing, sustainable tourism, urban planning, risk management, and more.

It offers local authorities and businesses an efficient way to evaluate their policies through a strategic dashboard and monitoring indicators.

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  • Project management
  • Assessment
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Other features

Carry out your project

1 – Manage your actions

Linea21 provides a dedicated module to manage your actions plan over time. You will be able to enter a large quantity of useful information regarding each project: goal(s), description, management committee, coordinators, partners, schedule, budget, etc.

Using a tagging mechanism, you will be able to differentiate several initiatives (i.e. : ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ and ‘Climate and energy package’) within the same tool.

2 – Get your stakeholders involved

Through a simple but powerful user permission system, contributors can manage their own project. This means that they are autonomous to perform project updates and assess project progression by feeding in related indicators.

3 – Export your action plan

Different formats are available for action exports: PDF, MS Word, HTML, Excel.

5 – Simplify generation of official documents

Using Linea21, you will be able to automatically generate elements such as actions, indicators charts and tables… that you can then integrate into official documents.

Run your own assessment with a continuous improvement approach

1 – Define and feed your strategic dashboard

Linea21 is the right tool to define and feed your strategic dashboard. Linea21’s dashboard is fully customizable:

  • Strategic dashboard visualization at a glance
  • Edition and creation of new indicators
  • Import of your existing dashboard
  • Gathering of exhaustive informations on indicators: goals, improvement recommendations, pertinence criteria, suppliers, law references
  • Multi-scale values
  • Multi-value indicators (ex : greenhouse gas/GHG emission inventory, energy balance…)
  • Export of your data under several formats: PDF, Word, Excel, HTML, XML.
  • Graphical representation of indicators 
  • …

2 – Centralize your data

By choosing Linea21, you choose to centralize your indicator data. Regular backups can easily be performed to ensure your dashboard data are safe.

3 – Be transparent

Beyond self-assessment, the dashboard is an adequate tool to communicate to citizens about your territorial public actions.

4 – Automate indicator collection using API !

Last but not least, you can connect an indicator to an API feed to automate indicator collection.

In addition, Linea21 itself provides API feeds to power your applications. See the case study from the Nice Côte d’Azur metropolitan area.

Spread the word about your initiative!

To gain support for your initiative, spread the word.

1 – Share your latest news!

The news module lets you write articles related to your initiative. All CMS tools and facilities are included in Linea21.

2 – Develop a pedagogical approach

The publication module allows you to share content organized into subsections. Its purpose is to enable the creation of in-depth thematic features—including, for example, infographics, bibliographic references, and external links.

3 – Target your audience with a newsletter

To keep your partners and/or constituents up to date, send out newsletters related to your initiative.

Want your project to be fully shared? Encourage people to participate

1 – Let anyone who wishes to speak have the floor

The comment module allows people to react and share thoughts on content.

2 – Stakeholder cooperation: workgroups

Share your goals, get a better idea of population needs, be attentive to inhabitants’ requests, and get them involved into the local sustainable development policy. Each citizen has the ability to participate in one or several workgroups. Subscribing to a workgroups, users have access to the following features:

  • a shared calendar
  • a forum
  • a document-sharing space
  • workgroup reports
  • an email notification system

3 – Delegate tasks to others

The user rights system allows you to create accounts with limited permissions. For example, a user can have writing access to news and be an animator of a specific workgroup without being allowed to access others functionalities.

Promote the local network at different scales

1 – Multi-scale approach

The entire Linea21 suite of modules is designed to integrate across different scales.

2 – A shared directory

Register companies, associations, institutions… a shared directory is ready to be filled up.

Additional features

1 – Multi-scale availability

The entire Linea21 suite of modules is designed to integrate across different scales.

  • For local governments: region, intermunicipal authority, city, neighborhood, etc.
  • For businesses: headquarters, sites, departments, etc.

2 – Directory availability

A directory is embedded into the application. Entries can be suggested by users and need administrator approval before being published. The directory has automatic geocoding capability and entries are available on maps.

3 – Differentiated user content

The user permissions system and application options allow the application to display suitable content to each user.

4 – A modular approach

Each feature is made of one independent module which can be enabled/disabled by changing options in the configuration file based on your needs. Note that core modules are required.

5 – A multilingual application

Linea21 is translation ready. It is already available in French, English, Italian and Spanish. If you would like to contribute by translating Linea21 into German or any other language or by keeping the translation up-to-date, let us know!

6 – Other features…

Linea21 is flexible and offers many configuration options. Here is a non-exhaustive list :

  • Actions are structured by purpose/goals
  • A ‘tag’ system allows logical links between items
  • The configuration file is editable online
  • A template system makes graphical integration easier
  • A plug-in system makes Linea21 expandable and flexible
  • …

Linea21 is a free software distributed under the GNU GPLv3 license.

The Free Software Foundation states that a software can be considered as a free software if people who receive a copy benefit from the following four freedoms:

  • Freedom 0: Freedom to run the program for any purpose.
  • Freedom 1: Freedom to study and modify the program.
  • Freedom 2: Freedom to copy the program so that you can help your neighbor.
  • Freedom 3: Freedom to improve the program, and release your enhancements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

Please refer to the following website to read the full terms of the license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.