CROWDFORCE: TRANSFORMING DATA COLLECTION IN AFRICA REMOTE AREAS

OVERVIEW
In accordance with the Economist research, data has exceeded oil as the 21st century's greatest treasured commodity. For unindustrialized economies in Africa, access to dependable data is the core aim to effective development and economic revolution. What about the function of data in African development and expansion – as a vital population and economic demographics modification and transformation, collecting conversant and precise data is critical to making comprehensive policy decisions and investments.

There are more than 3 billion underbanked and unbanked individuals globally, most especially in developing markets and some of the reasons why these individuals remain unbanked are; dearth of trust in the centralized financial sector, absence of access to banking services in their area, expensive transaction charges and insufficient funds to justify acquiring such fees, and lack of digital history as a result of no opportunities for lending.

Blockchain has made it conceivable to issue just about any asset through a distributed ledger framework. Blockchain technology has the potential benefits to so many organizations that have tapped from its technology such as decentralized payment processing, reducing the cost of a transaction, creating an immutable system of record, and enhanced security. CrowdForce will be tapping from this great technology.

Presently, businesses often have an increasing prerequisite to allowing workers in the field to collect data while outside of the office. Various companies such as construction and utility firms, employ a mobility approach that equips these field workers with smartphones. Mobile forms solutions aid those workers utilize their devices to accumulate and submit data in real-time. That data can be instantaneously shared with the core office or input into an alternative business system or workflow.
Mobile forms are applications developed for smartphones and tablets that permit for the creation and submission of forms with several types of form data. In utmost cases, mobile forms aid companies with employees in the field streamline their data assortment. Mobile forms mount a way for organizations to fill and submit traditional paper forms like audits, inspections, or reports on mobile devices.
With mobile forms systematization, you can streamline business workflows and abridge your data collection approach.
Submitting just one form can prompt an automation sequence, sending data to a director's email, sending photos to Google Drive, saving a copy of the form to your project administration database, and many more. The locations for any form data can be set up when creating a form. These systematization steps can aid businesses to go paperless.

The modern workplace is not limited to an outmoded office, and often employees require to complete work even when he is on a job site, or anywhere. Mobile forms software works deprived of an Internet, which allows members of an organization on a remote area to complete data collection and forms irrespective of where the job takes them. Submission data is stored until connectivity is regained, and then automatically continues to the predetermined destination.
According to Francis Ohanyido, Sr. Fellow, West African Academy Of Public Health he said "Reliable data is essential to sustainable economic development in Africa. Mobile Forms plays a transformative role in this space."
Over times, the use of paper forms in carrying out surveys in remote areas has to be a huge challenge for most health sectors and other companies and it has become relatively problematic, for the reason that they are inclined to error, loss & damage. Verifying the quality of the data and collation of thousands of paper form with quite over 1000 key indicators is another problem that will take several days. All of these will definitely affect the quality of a survey and incomplete information.

INTRODUCING CROWDFORCE

CrowdForce is a Mobile form platform for businesses, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), and Government to crowdsource unfailing data in Africa using smart mobile technology and a network of one hundred thousand field agents. Mobile Forms is a worldwide Cloud-based Mobile data Collection platform that leverages the power to Field Agent Crowdsourcing and Mobile technology to deliver real-time business data to businesses, NGOs and Government.
The Field Agent network is a combination of exclusive smartphone technology which can capture data anywhere either online or offline and social impact that will be used to solve a huge pain in Africa. This will empower smart young people on the ground to deliver strategic, local feedback that improves service delivery for organizations.
CrowdForce is passionate about transforming the way they collect data in Africa and they also empower local, international businesses and Non-Profits crowdsource a dependable market data through mobile technology and a network of field agents.
The CrowdForce Platform permits banks, digital wallets, businesses, crypto exchanges, and developers to
create micro tasks and services. These will immediately be made accessible to all merchants on the network through the CrowdForce mobile application on the merchants' phones or POS systems. See the process flow below for illustrations:

ADVANTAGES
A. Healthcare – in terms of improvement and accurate data collections from remote areas

1. Users will be able to collect data in remote areas that have no internet connectivity
2. Users can synchronize their Data proficiently to a central server immediately there is internet connectivity including areas in awfully poor connectivity.
3. Admin Officers will be able to receive real-time notifications of submitted records.
   4( Admin officers can review records and reallocated the data back to the user if additional details were required.
4. Mobile Forms have the ability to capture GPS coordinates for Geospatial Data analysts to analyze the Mapping and geographical distribution of a health care center.

B. NGOs – in terms of monitoring and evaluation:

1. The platform provides improved and quick access to reliable market data.
2. Users get strategic and local feedback to advance service delivery in communities.
3. Track progress in real time and respond to contributors with unfailing data faster than ever before.

• In terms of Mapping and Routine data collection:

1. Geospatially map all zones and points of interest as well as health locations.
2. Collect routine data to update decision models.

• In terms of Infrastructure and Resource allocation:

1. The impact of Infrastructural investment decisions and crowdsource GIS data of every infrastructure locations and points of interests are measured.
2. The supply chain dynamics and their impact on the community are evaluated.

C. RESEARCH – in terms of understanding your market:

1. The CrowdForce platform user never misses an opportunity to get to know their audience.
2. CrowdForce platform users can create and deploy tailored surveys.
3. Users can discover new clients.
4. CrowdForce platform users can leverage the platform to discover what clients need via a mobile device.

• In terms of Amplifying your Message:

1. Users will receive research-backed results that drastically improve marketing success.
2. Users can have access to their survey data at any point in time irrespective of their location to get fast consumer feedback that informs their sales tactic.

• In terms of evolving with changing conditions:

1. Users can generate customized forms to track key indicators and measure marketing operation impacts in real-time.
2. Users can receive exclusive perception into changing conditions.
3. CrowdForce platform users can expediently share data across teams, with access control.

D. GOVERNMENT – in terms of Econometrics:

1. Measure the impact of policy decisions.
2. Measure economic indexes on a periodic basis and also build economic models that authorize citizens and stakeholders to offer value.
3. Conduct census and audits conveniently and build an unfailing National Database.

• In terms of infrastructure and resource allocation:

1. Measure the impact of Infrastructural investment decisions and crowdsource GIS data of every infrastructure ecosystems and points of interests.
2. Assessing supply chain dynamics and their impact on end consumers.

• In terms of geopolitical and corporate data:

1. Influencing Policy with Trustworthy Information by collecting important demographic statistics.
2. Assess internal responses in real-time.
3. Track key indicators for justifiable development.
4. Enhance policy messaging using sound evidence.

CROWDFORCE APPLICATION
The CrowdForce Mobile application will be initially built on the Ethereum blockchain platform and in the near future, it will be moved to the CrowdForce blockchain platform. With the Crowdforce application, mobile forms organizations and Government can achieve the following:

1. GO PAPERLESS AND GET ORGANIZED: they can create questionnaires, campaigns, and surveys through the application drag and drop form builder. They can also discuss projects with CrowdForce platform where experts can convert project core purposes into mobile form data collection.
2. CAPTURE DATA: they can Share forms across all devices of their employees or field workers and can also set up a campaign and leverage CrowdForce diverse network of field agents to conduct campaigns, surveys, and data projects.
3. ANALYZE DATA EFFICIENTLY AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS: with the application the heavy lifting has been done already and tons of unfailing and certifiable data will be flowing into the user's dashboard sporadically. Your data science team will be more organized and can also involve CrowdForce team of Data experts to support them with their expertise.

The application will consist of initial microservices and micro-tasks as soon as the application is launched. It can be downloaded here

• MACRO TASKS:

1. Market Research and Surveys.
2. Anonymous shopping Tasks.
3. Data authentication such as businesses, know your customer (KYC), and addresses.
4. Image and GPS Capture of locations.
5. Retail Audits and Census.
6. Citizen appointment.
7. Consumer Insights.

• MICRO SERVICES

1. Utility Bills such as electricity, airtime recharge, Cable TV subscriptions)
2. Sports Betting.
3. Buy and Sell Cryptocurrency
4. Top up fiat (government issued currency) in a digital wallet.
5. Cash in and Out.
6. Account or Wallet Opening
7. Cryptocurrency to Fiat (government issued currency) Exchange.

CROWDFORCE TOKEN INFORMATION
The CrowdForce token "CRF" is the native token of the CrowdForce platform. The CrowdForce token is a utility token that fuels the CrowdForce platform and it is used for all transactions within the platform. The tokens are an ERC-20 token compatible based on the Ethereum blockchain network. All unsold will be burnt. Please note that know your customer (KYC) is required for all token sales participation. All received funds during the token sales will be in the custody of an escrow (as an extra protection of the token for purchasers' safeties) until the end of the sale of CRF tokens.
Funds received from the sale of CRF tokens will be securely kept in an escrow and are transferred to CrowdForce after the end of ICO and instantaneously, users receive their tokens. Tokens will be distributed to purchasers after 14 days from the end date of Token Sale.

FULL NAME: CROWDFORCE
TICKER: CRF
TOKEN TYPE: ERC-20 COMPATIBLE (ETHEREUM)
TOTAL SUPPLY: 1 BILLION
HARD CAP: $5,000,000
SOFT CAP: NIL

TOKEN SALE DETAILS:

• PRICE PER TOKEN: $0.03
• TOTAL CRF AVAILABLE FOR SALE: 600,000,000 (60%)
• TOTAL CRF AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION: 700,000,000
• PUBLIC PRE-SALE START DATE: SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2018
• PUBLIC PRE-SALE END DATE: OCTOBER 31ST, 2018
• TOKEN SALE STARTS: NOVEMBER 12TH, 2018
• TOKEN SALE ENDS: DECEMBER 14TH, 2018
• YOU CAN PURCHASE CRF TOKEN HERE
• COMPANY: 20%
• TEAM AND ADVISORY: 15%
• COMMUNITY: 5%
• ACCEPTED CRYPTOCURRENCIES FOR PURCHASE: ETHEREUM (ETH), LITECOIN (LTC), RIPPLE (XRP), DOLLAR (USD) AND 70 MORE CRYPTOCURRENCIES
• RESTRICTED/BANNED COUNTRIES FROM * PUBLIC PRE-SALE AND TOKEN SALE: USA, SOMALIA, SOUTH KOREA, AND CHINA.

USED OF FUNDS:

• RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: 30%
• OPERATIONS: 10%
• MERCHANT NETWORK: 20%
• SALES AND MARKETING: 30%
• OTHERS: 10%

INVESTORS

• Ventures Platform is a Pan-African venture capital firm that invests in early and growth stage tech companies.
• DraperDarkFlow is a Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in African startups that can change the world.
• 500 Startups is one of the world's most prolific investors, with over 3,000 companies backed globally. 500 Startups portfolio companies include Credit Karma, Remind, Talkdesk and Udemy.
• Right Side Capital Management (RSCM) is a technology startup investment firm focused exclusively on the pre-seed stage. With a portfolio of 800+ pre-seed investments.

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