GUARDIUM - Global Decentralized 9-1-1 (Emergency Services)

[markjeffrey]

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GUARDIUM is a token and protocol for global decentralized 9-1-1.

It is a worldwide public utility that benefits all, but it especially benefits the four billion unbanked people worldwide with no emergency services.  

GUARDIUM uses mobile, voice and wearable devices to utilize trusted citizen emergency response whenever needed. By flash-organizing nearby friends, family, neighbors, semi-pro and pro responders, Guardium creates greatly faster and richer response.

GUARDIUM ADVISORS:
William Mougayar
Crystal Rose-Pierce (Sensay)
Miko Matsumura
Michael Terpin (CoinAgenda, Transform)
Fred Kruegar (Troop)
Ken Brook (MetaX / AdToken)

Guardian Circle Investors:
Michael Terpin
Eric Poulier
Jason Calacanis
Thomas & Khaliya Ermacora / Falkora
John Valenti

Token Sale Website: http://tokensale.guardiancircle.com
Whitepaper: http://tokensale.guardiancircle.com/whitepaper/guardium_whitepaper.0.83.pdf

Presale: Open Now! (Sign up is on token sale site)    Public Token Sale: October 16, 2017

Guardian Circle App
The Guardian Circle app is the first reference implementation of Guardium. It's a free peer-to-peer emergency app that lets friends, family and neighbors protect each other. Guardian Circle uses location sharing and mobile devices to create 'trusted citizen help' as needed.  Available now worldwide on iOS, Android and ALEXA.

Awards:
- FEATURED: Apple's 'Planet of the Apps' Reality TV Show.
- WINNER: Launch Festival (Silicon Valley's Largest Startup Show)
- PARTNER: Women's Safety XPRIZE

Here's what the App looks like:
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More Info: http://guardiancircle.com
"The emergency grid needs an update: Us."

Guardium Token Sale: http://tokensale.guardiancircle.com
Guardian Circle App: http://guardiancircle.com
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GEkyk0LXGYIBbyjYVC4FdA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guardium/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/guardiancircle

Coin Details:
- 100M Pre-mined
- A new coin and blockchain (Bitcoin variant) - NOT an ERC20 Token!!!
- 55% Sold in Token Sale
- See Whitepaper for more details

Here's how the coin is divided up (click to view):
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Guardium Whitepaper Abstract:
Physical safety and security is essential for everyone, yet four billion people have no access to on-call emergency
services such as 911 in the United States. This paper calls for the formation of a decentralized emergency response
grid that would be more widely accessible, faster, proximal, scalable, user-friendly and technically advanced than
any existing network. Like the creation of ride-sharing services like Uber, Smartphone ubiquity is a precondition for
the establishment of such a global network. But the emergence of protocol-based decentralized organizations,
distributed ledgers, cryptographic currencies fundamentally shift the economics of providing such a global service.
Services like Filecoin, CIVIC, and Tezos have demonstrated that a new class of Global Public Utility provider that
is decentralized and protocol-based enables the creation of a unified decentralized network that evolves and updates
through its governance framework. Distributed ledger technology can provide an immutable record of responses to
emergencies for auditability, accountability and trust. Finally the availability of cryptographic tokens and smart
contracts enables a framework for establishing protective relationships, compensating responders and rewarding
positive behavior within the network. No government is capable of providing a global network, yet the economic
benefit of having a single, final, global provider is evident when considering the user experience of multiple
competing networks during an emergency situation.


TEAM

Mark Jeffrey CEO & Co-Founder
Mark Jeffrey is a serial entrepreneur and author. He has co-founded five internet companies (three exits) and written eight books, including the Max Quick series (Harper Collins). Three times, he has conceptualized and built consumer products that generated millions of registered users in the first year.

Most recently, Mark founded Guardian Circle, an app that lets friends, family and neighbors protect one another (GuardianCircle.com). He is also an early pioneer of crypto-currencies, having published two of the first books on Bitcoin: BITCOIN EXPLAINED SIMPLY (2012) and THE CASE FOR BITCOIN (2015).

His previous companies include The Palace (backed by Time Warner, Intel and SoftBank; sold to Communities.com in 1998 with 10 million users), ZeroDegrees (a business social network sold to InterActiveCorp / IAC in 2004 with 1 million users) and ThisWeekIn (co-founded with Kevin Pollak and Jason Calacanis). He was also the founding CTO of Mahalo / Inside.com (backed by Elon Musk, Sequoia, Mark Cuban and others). Mark also consulted for several years directly for Travis Kalanick, cofounder of Uber, on his first company Red Swoosh.

Mark's first book, MAX QUICK: THE POCKET AND THE PENDANT, was published in hardcover and ebook by HarperCollins in May, 2011. It was initially podcast as a series of episodic mp3's and received over 2.5 million downloads.

Mark Jeffrey holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire. He is a TEDx speaker and was a featured speaker at the very first Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society.

Chris Hayes CTO & CoFounder
Chris Hayes started his career building web applicationss for the aerospace industry in 1998 whilst still attending public highschool. Chris lays claim to architecting one of the payment industry?s first HRIPSP platforms in 2007 generating over $35,000 daily within two months of launch.

Chris lead a team at Davita healthcare (Fortune 200) in web application architecture replacing legacy systems realizing $1.5M/year in savings. He also lead engineering and architected ThisNext.com?s pivot to Glossi.com

Chris created and co-hosted The Smoking Tire and Hooniverse Podcasts with collective audiences in excess of 200,000 listeners per week in aggregate accounting for over 50M downloads as of August 2017. To date both podcasts remain at the top of the automotive media world earning consistent spots in the top 5 podcasts on iTunes in their vertical

Additionally Chris founded ShoutEngine.com, the first highly scalable podcast publishing platform with detailed analytics, serving over 4M uniques a month and 7M episode downloads/month. Chris is also a co-founder of IDK Events, a web based event management/planning platform, generating over $4M in first year revenue alone.

Chris served as an advisor to the Gablit.co event search platform and exited via sale to Events.com in 2013 and currently advises Intake.me in Venice CA and Tak.app in Santa Monica CA.

[Johnnywelsh]

Sounds like the Pokemon Go but for 911 calls. What' to stop all the nuisance alerts or makes it any easier than just picking up the phone and reporting an incident?

[markjeffrey]

It's not Pokemon Go However, you COULD say it's sort of 'Snapmaps for Emergencies' -- except with much better security (i.e. you won't summon a stranger who might mean you harm).

Here's a snippet from the whitepaper that addresses your questions:

Less than half of the world has 9-1-1, a government centralized emergency response system. Invented in 1968 for a world of landlines, it has not advanced significantly.

John Oliver, Last Week Tonight: “9-1-1 Sucks” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-XlyB_QQYs

Emergency services, particularly in remote areas suffer from these problems:
● Antiquated: 9-1-1 operators do not know your location 90% of the time if you call from a mobile device. (See 9-1-1’s Deadly Flaw in USA Today2).
● Congested: In March 2017, 9-1-1 was completely unavailable nationwide3 on AT&T mobile. In that same month, a child died4 because a caregiver was put on 9-1-1 hold for half an hour.
○ Here is an blog post5 with more details.
● Expensive: In Africa, the largest employer on the continent now is private security. The rich can pay
for safety ... but the poor can't pay for it and they're left unprotected. Guardium can put security within
reach of the poor for the first time.
● Corruption: In India, it is common for victims of sexual assault to be assaulted yet again by the very
police they call to for help. The solution is clearly not ‘more police’.
● Lawlessness: In his 2015 TED Talk6, Gary Haughan argues that the number one cause of poverty
worldwide is not a lack of food or water, but lawlessness, which is a direct consequence there being no adequate protection grid. He demonstrates this with the example of a 12-year-old girl named Griselda:
“... perhaps the most powerful thing that Griselda and her family can do to get Griselda and her family out of poverty is to make sure that she goes to school. The experts call this the Girl Effect. But when we met Griselda, she wasn't going to school. In fact, she was rarely ever leaving her home.
Days before we met her, while she was walking home from church with her family, in broad daylight, men ... just snatched her off the street, and violently raped her. See, Griselda had every opportunity to go to school, it just wasn't safe for her to get there ... Around the world .... victims of the everyday violence of domestic abuse and sexual violence ... account for more death and disability than malaria, than car accidents, than war combined. The truth is, the poor of our world are trapped in whole systems of violence.”
Problems of Centralization
1) Proximity of help: Emergency services are dispatched through a central switchboard, and local resources are routed to the scene of the emergency. Emergency resources may have a long distance to travel, especially for people in remote areas. In many emergencies including sudden medical crisis or violent crime, this is an unacceptable time delay.
2) Location of Emergency: Emergency responders need a detailed explanation of the location of the emergency, in many cases this location is not automatically available through the device GPS when calling a traditional 9-1-1 service
3) Scalability: Centralization reduces scalability. In disasters such as recent hurricanes Irma and Harvey, emergency response was swamped with calls and those calling would often be faced with a busy signal. During hurricane Irma, CNN announced that 9-1-1 calls would simply go unanswered in Florida for the duration of the storm. The inherent centralization of current emergency response limits scalability.
4) Distribution: Four billion people on earth have no access to 9-1-1 services.
5) Knowledge of responder: In many cases, first responders are entering into situations where their
knowledge may be extremely limited. This may limit their ability to provide appropriate care.
6) User Interface: Typically emergency response is handled through a 9-1-1 phone call. In cases where the
person cannot speak (for example if they are having a stroke), they will be unable to summon help. For those conditions where the person in crisis has foreknowledge of a possible problem (a person on a heart pacemaker, or someone with life threatening allergies, etc), creating a “panic button” that doesn’t require a detailed phone conversation can be a life saver.
Worse yet is the condition of the four billion people on earth who have no access at all to 9-1-1 emergency services.
The widespread availability of smartphones provides a precondition for solving this problem, and the emergence of ride-sharing services like Uber provide a model of user interaction where distributed providers and consumers can interact and create a multi-sided marketplace for transportation.
But the provision of worldwide emergency services is not only beyond the scope of any individual government, but also beyond the scope of a traditional corporation like an Uber. An inherent part of the problem is the creation of a new organizational system for delivering protocol-based decentralized marketplaces.