Kultur-Token
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A motion-tracking app rewarded Viennese who walked, cycled or took transit: every 20 kg of CO2 saved earned a Kultur-Token as a QR code, redeemable as an entry ticket at the Gartenbaukino, Volkstheater, Kunsthalle or Konzerthaus. Modes were told apart through an Austrian Institute of Technology service using speed and acceleration, and the tokens were held on a permissioned blockchain, which the city says uses no more energy than a conventional database. The City of Vienna ran it as a time-limited pilot and research project, with AIT and WU Vienna as partners.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →📊 Impact
Phase 1: about 1,000 testers from February 2020, interrupted by COVID-19. Phase 2: a closed group of 2,000 participants from autumn 2023, collecting and redeeming until February 2024. A final collection and redemption phase ran 2 April to 31 August 2024, after which the city's own page states the pilot and research project is completed. The city publishes no finding on whether participants' travel actually changed.
🎓 Lesson
The project set out to answer a question — what makes people fold climate-friendly behaviour into everyday life: a playful app, a strong community, or culture as the reward — and the page that closes it answers a different set: how long the test ran, how the app told walking from driving, and how much electricity the blockchain used. Five years and three phases produced a closed group of two thousand and one publicly listed working paper. The design was never a service and was never meant to be one, which makes the missing behavioural result the whole cost of the exercise.
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every 20 kg of CO2 saved earned a Kultur-Token as a QR code, redeemable as an entry ticket at the Gartenbaukino, Volkstheater, Kunsthalle or Konzerthaus
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Modes were told apart through an Austrian Institute of Technology service using speed and acceleration, and the tokens were held on a permissioned blockchain, which the city says uses no more energy than a conventional database
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The City of Vienna ran it as a time-limited pilot and research project, with AIT and WU Vienna as partners
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Phase 2: a closed group of 2,000 participants from autumn 2023, collecting and redeeming until February 2024
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A final collection and redemption phase ran 2 April to 31 August 2024, after which the city's own page states the pilot and research project is completed
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The city publishes no finding on whether participants' travel actually changed
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what makes people fold climate-friendly behaviour into everyday life: a playful app, a strong community, or culture as the reward
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how long the test ran, how the app told walking from driving, and how much electricity the blockchain used
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Five years and three phases produced a closed group of two thousand and one publicly listed working paper
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- City of Vienna (with AIT)
- Actor types
- city-government, research
- Funding model
- public
- Funding description
- Not recorded
- Cost
- Not recorded
- Ownership
- Not recorded
- Decision rights
- Not recorded
- Exit conditions
- Not recorded
3 source dossiers
Digitales Wien (authority)
- Stable source ID
src-663cbb3873c5324a- Publisher
- Name not classified · digitales.wien.gv.at
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2019-11-26
- Updated
- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-07-22
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
- Retrieved copy
- No local capture recorded
- Archive
- No archived copy linked
- Content hash
- No captured content hash
- Locator
- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
Official City of Vienna project page; states verbatim that the pilot and research project ('Das Pilot- und Forschungsprojekt ist abgeschlossen') is completed, with the final phase dated 2.4.2024-31.8.2024.
Stadt Wien Presse-Service (official)
- Stable source ID
src-04501aee09eada00- Publisher
- Name not classified · presse.wien.gv.at
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2023-11-13
- Updated
- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-07-22
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
- Retrieved copy
- No local capture recorded
- Archive
- No archived copy linked
- Content hash
- No captured content hash
- Locator
- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
Official press release announcing the second (2023-24) test phase.
WU Vienna research project record (academic partner)
- Stable source ID
src-3d2329812abaf2a7- Publisher
- Name not classified · research.wu.ac.at
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- Not recorded
- Updated
- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-07-22
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
- Retrieved copy
- No local capture recorded
- Archive
- No archived copy linked
- Content hash
- No captured content hash
- Locator
- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
The university project record, giving the funded period 15 April 2019 to 31 December 2021 and one listed working paper from 2020. The page states no publication date.
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- Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Kultur-Token” — Vienna, Austria. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/vienna-kultur-token/ (last verified 2026-07-22). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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