Newsletter #5, July 2019

DAIA
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9 min readJul 11, 2019

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It is official! 50 Companies and projects from all over the world have joined forces with us to decentralize and democratize access to Artificial Intelligence through Blockchain technology!

The achievement goes hand in hand with the announcement of our co-founder, Toufi Saliba, stepping into a more active role as President of the Alliance. Mr. Saliba describes his motivation for this move in stark terms: “The one and only danger in AI is the potential abuse of power by those who control it. If we don’t act now, we are likely to settle for nothing later. […] “My number one priority as President of Decentralized AI Alliance is to find seasoned startup GP(s) to manage and run a $100M fund, we began working on last year. We already have significant investor interest such as $100M matching when supporting projects building AI with strong security by design such as Autonomous Decentralized Governance.”

Look at this amazing world map!

More details in the complete Press Release

Perth IoT community have had a win getting Perth local government council to utilize their decentralized Internet of Things communications infrastructure network. The City of Perth are now sharing environmental data to support citizen science.

Perth IoT is also looking for a volunteer to help build a prototype AI agent that can have a smart contract to own its own wallet and earn a nominal AGI token fee when it alerts that pollution is higher than normal. As the environmental sensors are deployed at schools the prototype should demonstrate how they could deploy AI and IoT to earn their own income and contribute to a smarter city.

https://data.perth.wa.gov.au/story/citizen-science-environmental-monitoring

Volunteers can contact Perth IoT founder Tom at Tom@piotcn.org

Nectico is DAIA partner number 50 and their mission is to decrease economy inequalities by creating a trusted digital ecosystem for cooperation in Indonesia.

Besides being one of the fastest-growing economy among the G20 group, Indonesia’s growth spurs a rising inequality with a Gini index of about 0.39.

Nectico is entering the fourth industrial revolution era with an ambitious problem to solve. Their platform works by digitalizing end-to-end process in Indonesia Cooperatives. According to Nectico’s COO, a huge part of business process in Indonesia is done manually and their platform can help solve this problem. By connecting management members of organizations with key stakeholders around the country Nectico uses AI to create recommendations based on privacy and business data gathering.

Cortex Team is proud to announce the launch of its MainNet: The first decentralized world computer capable of running AI and AI-powered Dapps on the blockchain!

“For the first time in human history, we are now able to efficiently run AI on the blockchain. Instead of a black box, every step of the AI inference is verified by network consensus to ensure decentralization, immutability, and transparency.”

In their official medium announcement, Cortex gives an overview of their core technical innovations that made this achievement possible. They also discuss the applications of AI smart contracts and their vision for an open decentralized AI ecosystem on the Blockchain as well as the next planned steps on their development plan. Check it out!

On June 17 2019, Raven Protocol completed its first ever Initial DEX Offering (IDO) and it was a massive success: Look some of the results:

— $500K was raised in < 1s
— TG grew to 28K members (up from 2K)
— Twitter grew to 14.5K followers (up from 2K)
— Trading volume grew to $3.3M on launch day (up from $0; first listing)
— # of wallets holding RAVEN grew to 1,836 (up from 0; RAVEN-F66 was a new token)

Besides showing the results on their medium publication, Raven Protocol balanced what could be improved, the impacts and their plans for future!

The Romania Blockchain Summit is the largest Summit of the industry organized in South-Eastern Europe, bringing together the Romanian public sector, political decision-makers, developers, researchers, global entrepreneurs and leaders, and innovators from the blockchain industry. The objective of the conference was to promote and educate the benefits of blockchain technology and its use cases as one of the most important opportunities for achieving economic and social progress both at the level of Romania and at the level of the European Union. DAIA’s Director of Development Chantel Costa spoke at the conference joining a panel tackling the topic of ‘Blockchain — enabler of disruptive business models.’

With Kambria’s mainnet release last September, they’ve been working hard to continue to develop the Kambria Open Innovation Platform. Based on engagement with the community, they’ve identified new features to integrate and made some changes in other areas.

Today, Kambria is excited to release the next generation of the platform and website, which has been redesigned to highlight the products and services now available through the Kambria Open Innovation Ecosystem! Kambria looks forward to working with companies and developers to accelerate innovation in the AI and robotics space. Let’s take a look at what they’ve created. Read the full blog post here

Platform Highlights
🔹 Kambria’s Bounty Platform and the 187 teams that have already used it
🔹 Community Voting features and how you can vote and win KAT
🔹 How KAT and Karma will be distributed through our platform
🔹 List of newly available code
🔹 How to access our new Resource Library

⭐️ New Website!
Be sure to check out the newly redesigned website featuring components of the Kambria Open Innovation Ecosystem.
🔹 The Kambria Global Innovation Fund
🔹 The Kambria Open Innovation Hub
🔹 Hackathons and K-prize Challenges
🔹 Kambria eduKATion

⭐️ Binance Chain and Binance DEX
In case you missed it, Kambria has chosen to adopt Binance Chain and will apply to trade on Binance DEX. Read all of the details in the full announcement: https://blog.kambria.io/kambria-joins-binance-chain/.

We invite you to experience the Kambria platform and new website for yourself.

⭐️ Platform: https://app.kambria.io/
⭐️ Website: https://kambria.io/

BadVR has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundationto apply virtual reality technology towards the challenge of visualizing and analyzing complex geospatial datasets at scale.

This funding has broad commercial impact, accelerating the deployment of next-generation 5G networks, helping improve situational awareness during capacity and emergency planning, and allowing for the real-time monitoring of large-scale infrastructures like utility grids, all benefits achievable with minimal additional training or staffing costs.

“As a society, we have recently become aware of the power of data and the impact it has on our daily lives. It’s critically important that we make data easy and accessible to every organization, regardless of technical skill level or background,” said Suzanne Borders, CEO & Founder of BadVR.

In partnership with the National Science Foundation, BadVR will develop an innovative new approach to working with geospatial datasets of the future. This grant will fund the fusing of immersive display technologies with advanced visualization techniques to form a new type of data experience, shaping the way future generations interact with data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdbYp8LD4WE&t=4s

With the completion of a very successful token swap in May, it is now time to migrate the Effect Force platform over to the EOS Blockchain. The EOS Mainnet launch of Effect Force will happen this coming Wednesday July 10. The new & improved Effect Force on EOS will bring its current human intelligence taskForce of over 3000 and add another 4500 global workers. It will also bring new features like fully gamified worker environment, new tools, Requestor templates, faster performance and over a million new tasks. If you have worked with Amazon’s mTurk in the past and you try the new Effect Force, we guarantee you will never go back!

Along with the July 10th, release there will be a handful of new requestors. These new Requestors include the Australian- and New Zealand government for satellite annotations, Westat for sentiment analysis research, ORTEC for text extraction tasks and a handful of other exciting Requestors with fun unique tasks for the taskForce.

Currently, most of the resources and talent in AI is controlled by a handful of powerful companies. Decentralizing the development and distribution of AI pushes back against an undesirable concentration of power in the hands of a couple of large corporations. Effect.AI aims to develop tech for good — technology that supports transparency, equality and opportunity for as many people and organizations around the world.

Everyone at Effect.AI strives daily to make sure AI development is distributed equally, create fairly paid jobs around the world and help to create algorithms that solve the world’s most pressing challenges.

It’s been another busy month at Pynk. Following the successful launch of their Beta, they now have more than 4,000 Crowd members making price predictions on BTC, Gold and Nasdaq. This valuable data feeds their AI ‘Rose’ and helps the team make investment decisions for the retail investment arm of the business — and early results are very promising.

Team Pynk are back on the road this month with CEO Seth Ward attending the HOLT AI accelerator (Canada) and COO Ru Barksfield attending the 360 Lab accelerator (Poland).

Both HOLT and 360 LAB respectively are amongst the very best accelerators for AI and tech startups and Pynk will enjoy access to their extensive advisor and investor networks. The Pynk founding team met on the Founder Institute accelerator in Q1 2018, earlier this year joined the Natwest Fintech Accelerator and most recently the prestigious Mayor of London Accelerator.

To top it all off, PYNK has been promoted to the Founder Institute Select Portfolio!

Rupert Barksfield and Adeo Ressi, CEO of Founder Institute

The Founder Institute’s Select Portfolio is a designation given to the top 2% of Graduates from the world’s premier pre-seed startup accelerator. Among the Founder Institute’s 3,500+ Graduates across six continents, the Select Portfolio represents the Elite companies that have demonstrated strong early traction.

If you would like to earn a share of future Pynk profits sign up on their Price Prediction Tool Beta at: https://beta.pynk.io/prediction/BTC)

This documentary style was filmed during and around the 2nd Toda.Day Nov12, 2018. Miguel and his team provided us with their view and understanding of Toda Protocol. Which is a network communication protocol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-PFufPaeU

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