Is it an internet that is healing one another—or driving oneself further away from each other?
Docutopia is more than just a startup, Docutopia is an artwork, a collaborative multiverse, and a living ecosystem of people who are doing good things to solve real-world problems, a tool that empowers nature, natives, cultures, arts, tech, and first of all the people.
But how did this mindset-resetting project come to life? And how is it redefining what responsibility looks like in 2025 and beyond? Docutopia is the original role model for healthy years on Earth to come.
A New Life Begins: Docutopia is getting born
Docutopia.de started in the garden. An inclusive, ecological, and artists-based platform to coproduce symbiotic, innovative, and practical solutions to the world’s most urgent crises—from concrete jungles to inequality— Bôba Mènde launched the first version of Docutopia in 2016.
“It started as an open-source, self-editable map where people marked locations tied to nature, art, education as well as multicultural, artistic places and businesses. The plan was to make the invisible visible by mapping an individual multiverse oneself. Nothing to hide, nothing to lose. All stay alive, you’re the one: choose!”
The first release allowed eco-social heroes to tag sites of importance: urban gardens, music, permaculture, marketplaces, edible cities, and the arts. The second version, released in 2021, expanded by offering options to include individual profiles, events tied to hashtags, and emojis for real-time matching on the map of docutopia. What was once an anonymous internet throughout all other known maps had become something much more sophisticated: a collaborative statement of the arts.
Docutopia’s upcoming 2.1 release will give everyone a voice within a reality of healthy habitats—a multiverse of interconnected layers combining mapping, algorithm, decentralization, gaming, nature, and direct engagement with the freedom of choice. And this is just a start.
Overcoming the Challenges: Purpose over Programming
Docutopia faced a big obstacle by holding on to its original name like parents do with their babies. Financial support was missing at the beginning, also partly censored access to mainstream media made it difficult, and the sheer complexity of bridging so many disciplines with each other into a cohesive circular society where all different walls opened up and tested its resilience.
“Building something real takes truth, persistence, and courage,” says Bôba Mènde. “I wasn’t fighting physically because I knew that what is alive is learning only naturally, respectfully, and organically.”
Thanks to my relatives, friends, nature-loving circles, and constant dedication and with support from Karsten Winnemuth the founder of essbare Stadt e.V. (edible city networks) and artists, musicians, developers, and activists, Docutopia evolved into a child of the universe. Not just another mapping-app, but a universal people’s artwork. Not just a platform, but a prototype for reconstructing systems together from within. Planting and giving, receiving and sharing.
A Platform like No Other: What Docutopia Does
It is doing what no other platforms even dare to imagine? At its core, Docutopia is a people’s sculpture for lifetime and for everyone’s intergenerational heritage. But functionally, it is going to co-operate as:
- An eco-social, artistic, personal life map with self-editable markers
- A match-finding engine allowing emojis and regular hashtags to connect people’s needs with offers in their region and globally
- A super-app including one-day calendars, social media, petition platforms, streaming tools, crowdfunding portals, websites and so on
- An inclusive governance tool allowing people to vote, engage in public politics, to get involved in #wikelecta a sub-platform for direct democracy progress and autonomous self-monitoring
- A circular and self-governed economy based on self-hosting, IDI’S, and decentral, transparent ledger hardware
“Docutopia is about recultivation and renaturalizing ecosystems,” Bôba Mènde explains. “From art performances to drinkable water access, from first nations justice, cultural inclusion to art as a form of living—this is a multitool to solve real-world obstacles with all the people’s free choices and true voices.”
Growth in Action: The Docutopia Trajectory
Since its beginning, Docutopia’s growth has been nonlinear but exponential. With nearly no investor funding, it has spread primarily through grassroots networks and individual collaborations.
“I measure success in results, not in followers,” says Bôba Mènde. “It’s about that everybody is alive as
long as they choose to, that children are happy, rivers drinkable, air breathable, soil healthy, truth told, the needs met and to do’s done. ”
The platform has engaged slowly around continents, from Kassel, Germany, to urban gardens in Bangladesh (connecting-eco.com). With every new pin, the map becomes more inclusive and multilingual. It offers a tool for day-to-day businesses enabling one to map events, profiles, locations, needs, and offers likewise.
The long-term vision? An ever-expanding multiverse where natural and people’s rights, health, artistic and journalistic freedom are woven into various digital map- layers.
Biodiversity, flora, fauna and humans alike need drinkable water to survive. This is why our approach will prevent human-made disasters like pollution, especially inside of cities thanks to people’s engagement. With Docutopia we play a critical part in our ecosystem and this unique possibility to self-map, test, and verify the quality and quantities of water sources, drinkable rivers, air, soil, labor, and social justice as an educational game, ensures creative and ecological endeavors are financially rewarded for individuals and collectives. In 20 years through automatization, more than 40% of human labor is going to be replaceable or obsolete.
Docutopia is a road map through the arts, environmental, technological, and social inclusion to become a care-based and responsible solitary economy. Parallel to already existing institutions like kindergartens, scouts, school gardens, local marketplaces, artists, musicians, freelancers, even teenagers, children, their parents, and grandparents are invited to map their journey inside of the upcoming real-life DO_gameART# proving each other’s credibility by self-hosted maps.
The goal is to grow healthy together as one, within our natural habitats even in cities. Hopefully eliminating poverty one day through an individual, universal, basic income funded by marketplace revenues in Docutopia’s game. DOinS will be a fact-based in-game currency, interchangeable with all existing currencies and proven by people themselves.
What is Docutopia’s Real-World Impact?
Enabling everyone’s autonomy, Docutopia does rejuvenate the Internet of Things (IoT) with an Internet of People and Events (IoTPE).
Reward system:
Through DOinS, prosumers are rewarded by improving their careers and their communities. Additionally it offers soon as well possibilities to back up one’s life, creating one’s own digital living gravestone with Docutopia as a hardware ledger.
Self-governance:
The #wikelecta platform empowers people to propose, debate, and co-decide on policies, resource distribution, public priorities and indigenous rights to land and water.
“This isn’t just tech for tech’s sake,” says Bôba Mènde. “It’s tech for true people to reconstruct and renaturalize.”
Docutopia’s Services soon include
- real-time documentation tools for everyone like single parents, elders, homeless, poor, minorities, refugees, artists, and the youth
- edible cities
- health care, share housing, tool-/ car-sharing
- art exhibitions, festivals, activism
“It is helping to visualize ecological, social, journalistic and artistic projects, events and people co-organizing biodiversity partnerships for water, air, soil, and synergies.”
Seeing and Creating Ahead: The Goals of Docutopia
The roadmap is ambitious and idealistic. Keys are:
- Gamification of learning, teaching, doing and earning to increase income through all aspects of the arts in one’s life
- Matching-doing algorithms for needs and offers to initiate a new marketplace globally
- Integration of all private and national banks with their logos per drag and drop as well as social and professional networks like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, GitHub, Telegram, LinkedIn and other decentralized platforms
- Systemic collaboration with governments for co-managed environmental and multicultural strategies including Indigenous elders in the whole world
- Another future-positive experience is going to be the feature film “DOCUTOPIA: As Future Started Already in the Past” and the hardware of “DOgameART#” after its cinematical release
“This isn’t utopia. Docutopia is a truth telling engine” Bôba Mènde says. “An individual and artistic garden of Eden on earth.”
Leadership in a New Era: Who is Bôba Mènde?
Bôba Mènde isn’t a typical tech founder. He’s a father, artist, filmmaker, singer, and seeder who sees this multiverse map as a truth-telling canvas from all and for all individually.
An independent filmmaker since 2001, he works in writing, film, video art, photography, collages,
philosophy, sculptures, as a media – critic as well as a blog – journalist, and with people daily. His artistic projects have long emphasized indigenous knowledge and practices. Docutopia is, in many ways, the summation of all these disciplines.
“Integrity, transparency, respect and teamwork are keys. Businesses shall not be brutal but integre.”
As a bridge-builder—someone who listens and acts. Whether supporting developers, artists, refugees, or activists, he offers space, resources, and experiences. Teamwork and truth go hand in hand.
His Advice? “Be true and supportive. And be passionate on the path even if it takes longer than other paths. Your dream isn’t late. It’s arriving in sync with your good intentions.
Building a Legacy beyond the Screen
Docutopia is more than a tech project. It’s a global, interactive, eco-social sculpture in progress, shaped by uncountable hands, heads, and hearts. It is a compass pointing us toward what is possible and positive for future generations to be proud of.
Docutopia Redefining Tech, Activism, and Leadership in a Digitally Uniting World
1. Tech with good Purpose
Docutopia is becoming a super-app that connects people through actions, not only algorithms. It is designed to solve real problems like drinkable water access, justice, biodiversity and social inclusion.
2. DOins and DO-Bank
Business profiles on the map of Docutopia prove that learning, teaching, and doing are going to be an inclusive currency from the hearts
3. Mapping a Better World
With features like interactive real-time self-mapping, people’s proven identity verification, and participatory governance (#wikelecta), Docutopia is reuniting the internet as a map for healing and co-creation.
4. A Platform Built by the People
Docutopia grows through radical honesty inside of its prototype development progress and sooner or later generates financial freedom of work opportunities for freelancers globally within this new mappable marketplace. Artists in as many disciplines as possible you can imagine are seeding and growing this platform with this practical tool for a future where everyone is included, healthy, and successful.
5. Visionary Leadership in Action
Founder Bôba Mènde blends documentary and art, music, gaming, technology, and nature with purpose. His leadership isn’t about dominance—it’s about decentralization, inclusion, and a systemic, collaborative rebirth.
