Here’s How One Blockchain Company Is Working to Help Local Governments Combat COVID-19
With the outbreak and continued spread of COVID-19, we realize this is a tough time for you and your families. During this time, we want to make sure we’re doing everything we can to help support state and local governments as well as health care organizations and professionals that are fighting on the frontlines. This effort includes promoting projects and emerging technologies that can help to combat and potentially prevent future pandemics.
ETC Labs is proud to support OS City, one of our portfolio companies in their initiative to help state and local governments empower their workforce to mitigate the coronavirus through the usage of its City Listener and Blockchain Certificate Modules, transforming your government into a platform of digital services.
City Listener is a feature that allows for the collection of data in mass quantities using Artificial Intelligence. It enables governments to issue an online assessment for those that think they may have COVID-19. By aggregating feedback and necessary quarantine information from multiple sources, City Listener produces a real-time visualization and mapping of the virus and tracks medical supplies and inventory.
Complementarily, Blockchain Certificate Modules provide tamper-proof, third-party verifiable digital assets such as personal and professional certification for medical professionals, delivery services and even the tracing of medical supplies and social support.
The benefits of using the blockchain certification module to obtain these certifications are multipronged as it addresses the traceability for social and financial support, ensuring goods and services such as medicine, food, and economical support reach its final destination while trusted digital assets such as health certificates, quarantine-free permits, among other credentials are tamper-proof, easily portable and verifiable by anyone with a mobile device.
“We are currently working closely with UNICEF Innovation, the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), Organization of the American states (OAS), and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) to quickly and most effectively deploy this technology into multiple public institutions, maximizing positive impact and reach,” said Jesús Cepeda, CEO, and founder of OS City. He went on to say “with the combination of our AI City Listener and Blockchain Certificates Modules, governments gain the ability to access a city-wide perspective on emergent needs related to the pandemic, becoming more efficient when it comes to understanding the evolving situation, improving decision-making, and deploying operational certified personnel that are actively working to prevent further spreading of the virus.”
OS City has set up a streamlined process to fast-track adoption for state and local governments, allowing governments to act quickly and work to flatten the curve, together.
Hear more from Jesús Cepeda, CEO, and founder of OS City on our EVM61 podcast, here. For more information or to get involved with OS City’s initiative to help combat COVID-19 click, here or contact info@os.city
