Laura BODIS and Carmen ORTIZ from Torreblanca - BIG SMART DATA EL4DEV

Torreblanca, living laboratory of a planetary start-up: the emergence of the BIG SMART DATA EL4DEV

In his book BIG SMART DATA EL4DEV – Social network of peace, Paul Elvere DELSART (through his fictional characters) proposes a unique and bold vision: to transform a small Mediterranean Spanish municipality, Torreblanca, into a true testing ground for a societal start-up, where every citizen, every piece of data, every initiative becomes a building block of a new civilizational model.
This narrative, at the crossroads of visionary essay, speculative fiction and political manifesto, does not merely describe a technological tool. It sketches the birth of a living ecosystem, where digital innovation, civic engagement and international cooperation converge toward a radical project: rebalancing the world through collective intelligence.

Torreblanca, the small town destined to become the open-air framework of a global start-up

Why Torreblanca? The book sheds light on this strategic choice. It is not a metropolis crushed by inertia, but a human-scale town, located in Castellón, Spain. Its particular context (small population, need for demographic rejuvenation, rich natural heritage) makes it an ideal ground for experimenting with participatory governance and innovative ecological infrastructures.
Torreblanca thus becomes much more than a setting: it is transformed into a pilot node, co-developer, incubator, testing ground and co-investor of a transnational societal start-up that aggregates local initiatives to connect them to a global metasystem. The flagship infrastructures of the EL4DEV program, such as LE PAPILLON SOURCE and its Plant Boilers, find fertile ground there. These structures, both ecological, educational and touristic, generate data reinjected into the BIG SMART DATA EL4DEV, consolidating the idea of a territory that thinks, feels and acts collectively.
Thus, Torreblanca illustrates a fundamental principle of the book: the local becomes global. Every civic action, every cultural or ecological initiative is modeled, analyzed and disseminated, eventually becoming a source of inspiration for other territories.

Carmen ORTIZ and Laura BODIS: two young faces, two forces of the same transformation

At the heart of this narrative appear two major young female figures from Torreblanca: Carmen Ortiz and Laura BODIS, who embody two complementary forces.

· Carmen ORTIZ, mayor of Torreblanca, represents institutional, political and pragmatic strength. Her mission, entrusted by Henry HARPER (the author’s fictional alter ego), is clear: to make Torreblanca a living model. She must facilitate the local deployment of the BIG SMART DATA EL4DEV and ensure its media and political visibility. Carmen is the pragmatic architect, the one who anchors the vision in municipal reality.

· Laura BODIS, a 22-year-old young woman with almost prophetic intuition, embodies the sensitive and visionary dimension. Her task is to mobilize and inspire youth, in Spain and elsewhere, so that it becomes the driving force of transformation. She reads the world through feeling, captures the vibrations of ideas before they take shape, and acts as a very pragmatic contemporary oracle in the service of collective intelligence.

Where Carmen builds, Laura senses and anticipates. Where Carmen administers, Laura inspires and gathers. Together, they become the founding duo of a global project that links political rationality with intuitive depth. Torreblanca, through their voices, offers itself as an experimental ground for a globalized civil society.

BIG SMART DATA EL4DEV: a living digital organism

The heart of Henry HARPER’s project is the BIG SMART DATA EL4DEV. But reducing this term to a simple digital platform would be a mistake: it is a global, distributed and evolving information system, conceived as a planetary nervous system.
This collective brain is not designed to monitor, but to heal, connect and anticipate. Its mission is multiple:
• Collect and model social, ecological, economic, cultural and emotional data.
• Transform this data into living intelligence, capable of guiding political, educational or diplomatic decisions.
• Connect local initiatives into a coherent organism, where each town, association or citizen becomes an actor of global governance.
• Act as a compass of life, measuring alternative indicators (cooperation, ecological regeneration, social inclusion) rather than GDP or growth alone.
• Anticipate the future: detecting emerging trends, avoiding crises and steering collective choices toward sustainable trajectories.

The strength of this innovation lies in its holistic approach. Data are not reduced to numbers: they integrate stories, artistic creations and citizen experiences. In this sense, the BIG SMART DATA EL4DEV is at once technology, pedagogy and poetry; a social network that does not aggregate “likes” but concrete actions of cooperation.

A start-up of civilization

What the book stages, through Torreblanca, Carmen ORTIZ and Laura BODIS, is the emergence of a new type of actor: a municipality as incubator and co-developer of a transnational societal start-up with a civilizational dimension. But unlike traditional start-ups, centered on economic growth and market innovation, this one places at its core:
• ethics (justice, transparency, cooperation)
• sustainability (ecology, regeneration of territories)
• participation (every citizen is an actor, not a spectator)
• creativity (art, culture, science as strategic drivers)

Torreblanca becomes a laboratory of the future, where governance is no longer vertical and elitist, but horizontal and distributed. Far from being a naïve utopia, this vision is structured around precise tools: the BIG SMART DATA EL4DEV, the EL4DEV Strategic Deployment Tool (collaborative serious game), the GREEN COIN EL4DEV currency, the ecological infrastructures LE PAPILLON SOURCE and the multilingual EL4DEV WEB TV.

Conclusion - From Torreblanca, Castellón, to the entire world

Paul Elvere DELSART’s work (Henry HARPER) does not merely present a technology. It unfolds a civilizational vision, where the local and the global merge, where data becomes narrative, where governance transforms into cooperation, and where education is lived as much as it is learned.
Through Carmen ORTIZ and Laura BODIS, Torreblanca embodies this dream: that of a territory which, by assuming its pioneering role, could inspire a rebalanced, peaceful and sustainable world.
In this sense, the BIG SMART DATA EL4DEV is not only a social network of peace, but the backbone of a planetary start-up, where humanity as a whole becomes co-creator of its own future.

EL4DEV - The Age of Collaboration

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