Agora enters the Latin American market.
Agora, a Swiss based Blockchain voting technology company and The First Look Alliance, a US based, global advisory conglomerate have today announced that they’ve entered into a joint venture to bring Agora’s blockchain voting technology to Latin America. The Boards of Directors of both companies have unanimously approved the partnership. The Joint venture will support the distribution of Agora’s revolutionary end-to-end verifiable voting solution for governments and institutions throughout Latin America.
“Latin America from Mexico to Patagonia is an incredible mix of cultures and a strategic region between the Atlantic and the Pacific with a common but complex history and a very heterogeneous present. Venezuela and Cuba are very different from Panama. These three countries are subject to different influences, and cultivate different strategic relations and interactions on the international scene. Populations in Latin America have made the ultimate sacrifice of entire generations, lost during their struggles for Independence and sovereignty.
There is no question that the new generations of these countries will give up their precious and painfully acquired rights after so many years of fighting. Agora, by joining forces with First Look Alliance, would like to give Latin American citizens the means to ensure that their voices are secure during future electoral events. Agora will provide the private and public sectors a powerful and independent tool to conduct their elections in the simplest and most absolute transparent way, while drastically reducing the costs of these generally very expensive events.” says Leonardo Gammar CEO of Agora.
First Look Alliance Chairman Shamim J. Ahmed to add: “We’re happy to be forming a geographically exclusive partnership with Agora to prioritise the roll-out of blockchain voting technology in key geographic test-beds, where a mix of demographic and political factors informs the rapid adaptation of 21st century solutions for challenges that have plagued democratic processes for centuries.”
About Agora:
Agora is a Swiss voting protocol company building a decentralised digital voting ecosystem based on blockchain technology that ensures security, end-to-end verifiability and support for new devices. By creating an immutable and publicly viewable digital record of elections, Agora’s technology allows both private and public organisations to eradicate fraud and corruption, reduce costs and engage voters in a modern, convenient and accessible way. Agora is also building an election supply chain tracking app and will provide decentralised application hosting on top of its custom, fair and token-free consensus mechanism. For more information on Agora, please visit www.agora.vote. Twitter. Facebook. Telegram.
About The First Look Alliance:
The First Look Alliance provides an integrated offering of advisory and solutions services to their(governmental and non-governmental) clients. Their Strategic Investments division focuses on strategic business development and transactional advisory services principally in healthcare, blockchain, hemp/cannabis… First Look Alliance sources, vet and secure high-quality transactions for their clients.
First Look’s efforts are being led by First Look’s Chairman Shamim J. Ahmed, Esq. Attorney and financier worked in the hedge fund industry, real estate finance, opportunistic investments with a focus on disruptive technology. Shamim earned his B.S. in Economics and Psychology from Duke University and studied graduate level Quantitative Finance at Columbia University before earning his J.D. from Hofstra Law School. Gordon J Grant CIO of First Look, former PM and Director of Derivatives at NWI Management LP who built and sold his own cryptocurrency trading platform from 2013–2015.
Shamim is an attorney and financier. He has eighteen years of experience in the alternative investment space in wide ranging capacities, from transactional attorney to currency trader.
