One Smart: Creating data-driven, verified cities through blockchain and AI.
Developing a blockchain and AI software to increase transparency and accountability of government allocations of resources
Using the newest technologies, we help institutions to leapfrog the digitization process and go straight to the most secure, portable and, interoperable digital documents to regain trust. Our platform allows governments to have continuous access to new and better data.
As data comes in, the platform automatically adapts and improves itself to the given locality, providing a tailored service. The more it’s used, the better the service it can provide. By facilitating the government to certify information using a blockchain platform for data on subsidies, procurements, purchases and many other transactions, we’re not only building a much more trustable public administration but also a very efficient one.
OneSmart City is integrating an existing City Manager Platform, which is used by public institutions to install apps to fast-track their modernization, into an AI and Blockchain Cloud Platform to publish critical data and certify government sensitive decisions.
Along with Prince Consulting (a smart cities consulting company), we’ve found the perfect partnership to build human capacity on emergent technologies and deliver technological solutions into the public sector.
Equivalent to platforms like iOS or Android, we're building the "govstore" allowing governments to have their own marketplace of accessible and powerful software solutions.
In a world, where 3 million people move to cities every week, we can not keep our centuries-old governance models. We seek to assist governments in making faster decisions to keep up with the pace of change.
The combination of AI and blockchain is paving the road towards new ways of governance, and making it open-source is allowing a developer community to create more ways of leveraging faster government modernization.
FRONTIER TECHNOLOGY & OPEN SOURCE
Think of Wordpress, almost half of the web has been built atop of their open-source platform. They made building websites fast and easy using a plug-n-play approach with plugins coming from all over the world. If we want to make government innovation fast and easy, we must think of being open, and allow everyone around the world to contribute. Open-source is why Wordpress created an amazing marketplace of plugins, or why Android’s Playstore or Apple’s AppStore got populated. So it makes our solution better by making it possible to have continuous access to new and better software solutions.
We have been active participants of communities that have helped us to understand the importance of modernizing governments to ensure a sustainable future. We are aware of the dangers of governments being left apart and masses of people being at risk of manipulation, or worse, irrelevance. In frontier technologies, we see tools to address global challenges.
TEAM & DIVERSITY
We’re a solid partnership between two firms, OSCity a technology company from Mexico and Prince Consulting a smart cities consultancy company from Argentina, with experience in civic technology, open governance, and technology addressing public challenges such as citizen participation and transparency. Our background combines public policies and software development, including a team of designers and engineers with MSc and PhD in intelligent systems and robotics, data scientists, and political scientists with experience in ICT policies and public innovation.
Together we’re brains and muscles in politics and technology. We believe that our value lies in combining experience in technology development plus knowledge about public policies and the functioning of the public sector. These complimentary views on the same problem is what differentiates us, what makes our diversity so powerful.
Our team has decades of experience in consulting with Latin America´s governments on topics like technology, democracy, modernization, transparency and civic technology. Essentially, we combined the two firms into a perfect partnership to build human capacity on emergent technologies and deliver technological solutions into the public sector.
WAY AHEAD:
With UNICEF´s Innovation Fund we plan to enhance our technology focusing on UX/UI for the ease of adoption. Additionally, this investment is useful for freemium implementations, covering expenses for pilot projects including fixed costs, tech development salaries, traveling and positioning events. After this, our for-profit business model seeks to scale up by licensing technology, selling intelligence and data services to city-state governments and engaged businesses, and monetizing raw data.
We expect to be able to dilute further development costs through the open-source developer community, so that our technological offer can keep growing without necessary demanding for further investments.
Working on blockchain projects together with other startups will allow us to move faster in experiences that demonstrate the value of this technology. As we’re exploring frontier technologies, it’s important to be able to share challenges, tools and experiences among all startups, making it so important for us to work with other open source models.
About UNICEF Innovation Fund: The Fund has been specifically designed to finance early stage, open-source technology that has the potential to impact children on a global scale. The core motivation of the IF is to fund "clusters" or portfolios of initiatives around emerging technology, like UAVs, Blockchain, Data Science and AI or virtual reality - so that UNICEF can both shape markets and also learn about and guide these technologies to benefit children.
As well as funding the start-up companies, UNICEF’s Innovation Fund will provide product and technology assistance, support with business growth, access to a network of experts and partners. The Fund also actively seeks second-round investment and support for companies it has invested in, as well as the opportunity to scale-up these technologies, when they are successful, in the more than 190 countries and territories where UNICEF operates.
More info: www.unicefinnovationfund.org
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