How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
Coalition App is a privacy-first contact tracing app and protocol leveraging secure Bluetooth and cryptography to help combat the spread of COVID-19. It's built by Nodle.io and independents. Given that the vast majority of phones are Bluetooth-enabled, each time a phone passes by another phone or other Bluetooth-enabled device, it picks up anonymous device information. If a Coalition App user declares that they have tested positive for COVID-19, their phone then can anonymously and almost instantaneously inform all other phones that have been in its proximity over an extended period of time during the prior 2 weeks. The amount of exposure period and the length of time we trace back to can be set by epidemiologists. Users who are notified can then immediately take necessary self-isolation measures. The identities of both the COVID-19 positive patient and of the people receiving the notifications are securely encrypted.Our solution is global, decentralized, open source, interoperable with other apps for travel, and uses the Whisper Tracing Protocol we wrote, peer reviewed by cryptographers at MIT, Stanford, USC and Oxford: https://docsend.com/view/nis3dac. We are able to collaborate with governments and orgs using either our app, protocol, bluetooth technology, or deep expertise. We're additionally capable of building wearable solutions for those who don't have smartphones.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
Resilience - we're improving the broader infrastructure for responding to pandemic outbreaks.,Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
What is the stage of your product development?
I have a market-ready product/service. I could sell it to customers
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
Coalition Network is a non-profit whose founders and team have been building and implementing decentralized, Bluetooth-based network solutions on mobile for the past decade. The team built the largest IoT network using Bluetooth with 20 million active smartphones, they connect hundreds of million IoT devices a week. They also built the mobile application FireChat that was the largest mobile mesh network on mobile leveraging bluetooth technology. It is the app that powered the pro-democracy Umbrella revolution in Hong Kong in the fall of 2014 when half a million students used the app to stay connected. The app had tens of millions of users and reached the top 10 social apps in 126 countries.
What countries do you operate in?
The team is distributed internationally, with half in San Francisco.
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
No
