Topic: [ANN] [SEED ROUND] The Government Network - Borderless nation - page 2. (Read 1293 times)

The Global Africa Business Club (GABC) and the Government Network started the development of a platform which is geared towards facilitating trade and the movement of goods across Africa and the rest of the world. Providing African businesses with an infrastructure which compliments their national legal and financial frameworks which is geared towards Pan-Africa Globalisation.

South-Africa, November 5th 2018, The GABC and the Government Network are working together on the creation of a platform which is aimed to reduce the barriers for African enterprises to trade without borders, cultivating a borderless mindset. The platform will be focussed around the creation of a trusted ecosystem between market actors including corporate and individual identity management solutions, access to financial instruments and transaction management. The partnership is an execution of the vision of the Chairman of the GABC, Washington Kapapiro, who believes that Africa needs to create her own tailor-made solutions if it is to ever realise its potential for economic development.

The platform will be built on a decentralised framework with the individual and enterprise both central in the ecosystem. It will be equipped with the latest technological innovations and transparent by design, in line with the borderless vision on which the Government Network is created, says Jens Lievens, founder of the Government Network. The platform will complement national legal and financial frameworks where they prove to be inadequate to cultivate economic growth, allowing for a faster transitioning towards a borderless Africa, and effectively a more prosperous Africa. It is a step towards individual empowerment, reducing the impact of any businessman’s location or background.

The GABC is a private business network promoting borderless thinking and pan-African globalization. A non-profit development organization founded in 2004, GABC has access to 34 African countries, 50,000 African businesses, and 26 partners’ networks to promote dialogue, debate and influence policy to improve the role of businesses and enterprises operating in Africa and globally.  The Government Network is building a borderless Nation powered by Blockchain Technology, operating from a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO). Its purpose is to innovate governance and trade one step at a time through the implementation of applications serving direct market needs as drivers for the ecosystem.

https://medium.com/@govtoken/gabc-govnetwork-partnership-42bc6e8b0018


Website:
http://www.globalafricabusinessclub.com/
https://thegovernment.network/

Good evening Ice! Thank you for your interest. Tomorrow we will publish a partnership that will show you a concrete application of the Government Network.

The Government Network is a borderless nation, rethinking the role of governments and providing an alternative government framework, accessible and free for all, empowering the people with the abilities to achieve their goals independently through the power of technology.

This means we will be working on the decentralised version of all functions expected from a functional government, ranging from identity services to the provisioning of free speech and a legal and financial framework.

We look to integrate the latest innovations in the industry and focus on the creation of direct drivers until the Government Network reaches critical mass and becomes fully autonomous. With the citizens establishing its own business in the Nation and guiding further development.

The GOV token swaps with a stablecoin (the NTN token) which can be exchanged with the nation for other cryptocurrencies or used in the nation’s economy over time. Drivers for the swaps to occur are the growth of and transaction volumes in the nation.

The constitution which will govern the DAO and the Government Network will be drafted by a constitutional convention in Q1 and Q2 of 2019.

Please feel free to ask me any remaining questions after you have read our whitepaper.
 

Actually Im having hard time to visualize what this project is really for? Is this a utility token to be use for innovating governance of what country? Im sorry Im already participated in too many projects already before but this one seems unique to me and Im going to read the wp if what is all about. 

Hi AmoreJaz, we just did an update on our main post. I hope you like it.

According to the global indicator framework developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators, through Goal 16 (“Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions”), we seek to: "substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms; develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels; broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance; ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements; promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all; significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere; and end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children."

According to the Report of the Secretary-General ( The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018 ), there is promising news on these fronts: "Freedom-of-information laws and policies have been adopted by 116 countries, with at least 25 countries doing so over the last five years. However, implementation remains a challenge. Since 1998, more than half of countries (116 of 197) have established a national human rights institution that has been peer reviewed for compliance with internationally agreed standards (the Paris Principles). However, only 75 of these countries have institutions that are fully compliant."

Acknowledging that these are powerful strides in the right direction, we must also recognize that innovation and progress in these efforts are often stymied by insufficient legacy systems, political divisiveness, and the inertia of entrenched special interests. I am fascinated and inspired by bold innovative experiments in developing new forms of governance generated from without existing national boundaries and free from the traditional centralized national models, particularly through the application of new technologies that allow for effective decentralized governance models. The Government Network’s platform promises to be a fascinating laboratory for bold experimentation around these new models on a global level.

by Efriam Wyeth

About Efriam, advisor at the Government Network

Efraim (“Ef”) Wyeth is a community organizer, business developer, startup consultant, and content producer working primarily in New York and in both Northern and Southern California.

Ef has a passion for creating engaging and innovative experiences that feature elegant narratives. He develops community solutions that encourage empowering human interaction, sustainable business models and social justice. Ef is currently engaged in several projects in the fields of Sustainable Development, Startup Acceleration, IT and Entertainment.

Currently, Ef is focused on accelerating global achievement of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, formerly as Founding Director of Blockchain for Impact (an initiative of Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development), and currently as Founding Director of the SDG Film Institute, Senior Partner at SDG.Systems, and Executive Producer at The Production Machine.

Ef is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and earned an MBA from the Georgetown School of Business. He serves as Advisor to a number of innovative organizations including The Government.Network, SDG.ONE and CTI Africa.

https://thegovernment.network/blog/united-nations-promote-just-peaceful-and-inclusive-societies

Belize, October 31, 2018, The Government Network is building a borderless Nation powered by Blockchain Technology, operating from a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO). Its purpose is to innovate governance one step at a time through the implementation of applications serving direct market needs as drivers for the ecosystem. The goal is to build a nation, operating on a decentralised governance model, accessible and free for all, that empowers its citizens with abilities to achieve their goals independently through the power of technology.

The framework under which the different branches and procedures of the Government Network will operate will be determined by a Constitutional Convention. Here, an equally represented group of prominent experts, businessmen and humanists will be tasked with rethinking the role of government as we know it. The Constitutional Convention will be organised starting from March 2019.

The Crowdsale aims to secure $ 3 million in funding to be used for the further strengthening of the parallel task groups building the Nation, with a first focus on completing the foundation required to develop the DAO and the initial front-end applications. These applications will function as drivers for the Nation and will be equipped with a user base through partnerships. The applications include a decentralised self-sovereign identity solution, a trusted trade framework, and a basic community engagement platform.

Furthermore, the Government Network will invest in testing the different assumptions on which the Nation will be built, the onboarding of new citizens, and educating the world on our new form of governance absent of national boundaries and free from the traditional centralized national models.

Now raising capital by launching a Crowdsale through its own cryptocurrency called the GOV Token, an ERC 20 token based on the Ethereum blockchain. The Government Network Crowdsale commences on November 1, 10:00 AM GMT and will run for 4 weeks.

For complete information, please visit: https://thegovernment.network/token-sale

To download the whitepaper, please visit:
https://thegovernment.network/docs/The-Government-Network-White-Paper.pdf

Media Contact:
[email protected]
General enquiries:
[email protected]

Thank you FindICO!

Hi everyone! Just added this incredible ICO to my website   https://findico.io/ico/the-government-network   Findico.io is an online informational platform that claims to offer ICO ratings from top investors and experts. Using the information on the website, you can “invest smarter” and pick the best ICOs. In addition to rating ICOs, Findico offers ICO consulting services and we can help companies with all stages of their ICO.

Good morning Ostrogoto, apologies for the late reply, we a working around the clock.

The hard cap of the Government Network Crowdsale is between $ 40 and $ 45 million, depending on which package our contributors choose. I would like to refer you to https://thegovernment.network/token-sale

The funds will be used mainly towards development, operations, and mindshare. We start with hosting the constitutional convention which will determine the structure, framework, and governance of the DAO and nation (this is not done by the organisers, and will be done by representatives elected by the early citizens of the Government Network). After which the development of the DAO will progress in accordance with the constitution. The main features will continue development simultaneously with the convention and DAO development. This includes the integration of existing innovations in GovTech into the Government Network Ecosystem.

The focus is initially around the creation of drivers, concrete applications that have an immediate use case in partnership with the end users or entities with an existing user base, driving transactions and individuals into the ecosystem. As well as the development of a developer toolkit allowing for citizens of the nation to develop their own applications within the framework provided by the Government Network.

Part of development will go to (academic) research, testing the hypothesis on which the Nation will be built, this includes further identifying the market conditions and society specific requirements that need to be considered for mass expansion. Furthermore, a large part of the required research will be directed toward behavioral finance and economics.
 
On the operation side, a large chunk will go to field testing of the drivers going through the typical phases of discovery – pilot – and implementation. Mindshare will be created through an event series on decentralised governance and the need for competition in the market of governments. With the goal that in this world, your birthplace stops binding your future. Other expenses include attending conferences and membership fees (as required by some of the organisations we will work with).

The soft cap is $ 3 million.  If the Government Network does not reach its hard cap, this will result in a focussed approach directed towards establishing concrete drivers that will later grow into the ecosystem and nation as envisioned.

Examples of drivers are:

-The creation of a framework for an existing and established business network linking African companies to the rest of the world facilitating transactions, cultivating growth, spreading education and cultural inclusion, and pushing a borderless pan-African mindset. The Government Network will provide the framework for the organisation to grow to the next level, integrating it within the larger ecosystem. This is done through the creation of a trusted environment with decentralised identities as the backbone (in this area of the world establishing a trusted counterparty is often the hardest part of the transaction), as well as elaborate escrow and arbitration solutions (lack of banking infrastructure), participation mechanisms, a communication and voicing channel.  The created framework will be available to other organisations and the participants will become part of the larger ecosystem. The different solutions within the framework will be elements returning in the larger ecosystem, with the framework being a specifically designed front-end application.
 
-The creation of a voting, polling and petitioning application based on decentralised identities for countries, communities, and organisations. The Government Network will collaborate with a number of entities and groups in order to assist them in implementing more transparent and empowering governance systems. Initially the Government Network will push its own expansion through active pursuit of new implementations, bringing the participants into the larger ecosystem facilitating the road to critical mass.

-The creation of decentralised identity solution front-end applications for specific use cases such as sports federations, schools, non-profit organisations, and universities. In a university, this could mean linking the identity to the diploma, modules, and courses the individual has followed or passed, facilitating inter-university communication and potentially proving to be an additional benefit for graduates applying for employment (abroad).

Please let me know if you have any further questions, and forgive us for not always being able to reply immediately.

What is your hard cap and soft cap? let's say you will reach the hard cap where do you invest  all the  money collected , do you have any plans?

Another question, will you be holding events? Virtual or physical? Is it possible to meet with your team?

Modern governments are addicted to rules - and often get lost from their purpose of actually serving people. In doing so, they often succumb to moral hazard, and corruption that compromises their ability to use their power to actually promote prosperity and wellbeing. We want to offer governance solutions to drive more competition in the “market of governments”. Basic solutions that can help people create stability and predictability in difficult - particularly developing world jurisdictions. Better voting solutions, better identity services, better title and property ownership solutions. All of these practical areas can be greatly improved by a globally accessible, transparent, and stable solution to provide an interface developing nations peoples can interface with more developed markets by having this more trustworthy interface.

Thank you for your feedback AmoreJaz, we are currently working on a visual presentation and pitchdeck explaining the project. We expect this to be available by the end of next week.

Have a great weekend.

you should include visual representation on your OP so everyone can understand your project easily. not all people have the time to study a lot of projects here. you should have something that can easily understood by ordinary crypto users

What are you trying to achieve with your project?

The main difference between The Government Network and Liberland is that Liberland is primarily focused on physically acquiring land, where they want to institute a new system of laws. The Government Network has no intention to do so. Our goal is not in replacing governments, but in providing universal governance solutions that can be adopted by nations, governments, communities, corporations and people. Which would be a universal standard or benchmark for key functions of governance.

I was just thinking... Liberland sounds like a similar project. How do you differentiate yourself from them?

Cool, I want to be a part of your team!

 Our Michael V. Khalsa - highly experienced Senior Full Stack Developer. Please read more on our website:

http://thegovernment.network

Who is your CTO?