Ant Gig Platform (AGP)

Problem: Post COVID-19, Worldwide at least 500+ million skilled people , Wait for their next job, failing, look for an alternative career. Worldwide at least 800+ million skilled students, wait for their first job and look for career navigation. If these great resources are NOT POSITIVELY ENGAGED in next 2 Yrs, world's hope get shattered, skills get underutilized.

Solution: We need platform to share Resources, Skills, Hiring, Business. Resources are Positively Engaged on developing Social Infrastructure. Going to be Community Developed, Maintained, Mutual Cooperative Platform. Each member gets Certain Credits based on the Skill /Contribution level.Service Credits are stored in AGP Service Credits Bank. Weightage given in Future Prospects. Any Service rendered free get Higher Credits, Business Lessor Credits.

Project Ask by: Small-Medium-Enterprises, Hospitals, NGOs, Govt, UN etc

Function: Platform Manages Solution Seeker and Solution Provider (dynamic team formation by like-minded members under leadership of change-maker

Deep Job Crisis: Facts: 27 million Indian youth in age group of 20-30 years lost jobs in April: CMIE (ET.com). The bitter truth is that 42% of all coronavirus job losses will be permanent and unemployment is currently closer to 25% (forbes.com). Coronavirus job losses could total 47 million, unemployment rate may hit 32%, Fed estimates (cnbc.com). This phenomenon is global.

Key Factors Driving this solution ( Ant Gig Platform)

• There is no universal platform to engage skilled people positively during this crisis period. Skill / Art is lost if it is not practiced for 2 years. We need a preservation platform.
•  There are no platforms to provide service credits in the absence of business. Like money, someone should save experience, skill, art.
• Ant Inspiration: A new study reveals that after a raid on a termite nest, the injured ants are cared for by their “comrades”. 80 % of injured ants died within 24 hours if kept by themselves. But if cared for by their nest-mates for even an hour, only 10% died. This philosophy has to be implemented
• Service Credits are stored in AGP Service Credits Bank. Weightage is given in Future Prospects 

• Platform registers people who lost jobs, their skills, experience, location, whether they want to be a leader or team member (up-gradation is possible)
• Across the world, Govts, NGOs, CSR fund are doing relief operations for the needy.  Providing ration and basic healthcare
• Govt and donors post requests/problems/challenges on the AGP platform (e.g. social IT infrastructure development, check dam construction, material packing, agriculture production, sanitation, art and craft work, teaching, Geriatric care, etc).
• Based on the expertise, Leaders select the problem and recruit team members online. Every project should have a facility to customize terms and conditions
• Project Management starts and follow deadlines as agreed
• Based on the terms agreed, each contributing member gets some service credits.
• These Service credits are stored in AGP Service Credits Bank
• More credits are given if service is rendered free. Fewer credits are given if service is on charge basis. Depending on the appetite, each member chooses type of credit.
• These accumulated credits are finally calculated in the form of Positive Engagement Index
• Index is used to determine in future engagements when economy revives

This is Covid Emergency Project.

• This is Universal Brotherhood Platform. It attracts White collar, Blue collar, Gray collar, Gold collar, Pink collar, Green collar, Orange collar, Popped Collar, Black collar and No Collar
• Skills are different for each segment. Needs are different for each segment.
• Donors are different for each segment. Project Management philosophy is different for each segment
• AGP manages all segments and engage them positively. A regular bank accepts money deposits from all segments. Similarly, AGP service credits bank provides credits to all types and saves them for their future use.
• It provides ray of hope. Assures someone is listening to us. Deserved people are not ignored in the crisis.

The challenge is all about access and create good jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities for marginalized populations. Ant Gig Platform solves exactly this issue. Due to this pandemic, many non-marginalized people become marginalized. Marginalized become devastated. This platform tries to raise the bar above the current standard of an individual.  

Consolidation of all good efforts under one single roof is an innovation. It is never done before or experimented at this scale. Good is spread and Positivism is pervaded through this platform. It reduces the hunger deaths. It increases the productivity of governments across the globe. It aids UN global mission with low cost. It develops local leaders and change makers. As this platform targets people who want to do something for service credit, it becomes most productive engagement platform. Ant Gig Platform Service Credits Bank remains the most innovative initiative of 21st Century.

Platform comes under Social IT infrastructure. It looks like LinkedIn for a cause, accepting different set of Users, category, projects etc. It is not only used by Business communities but Govt, NGOs are core participants of this platform. It has Desktop Version and as well as Mobile App

It has basic technical stack like  Java, with some Python, Ruby, Node, and C++, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon RDS, Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, Atlassian JIRA, Backbone.js, Couchbase, DigiCert, Dyn DNS, Git, GitHub, Gradle, IntelliJ Idea, Jenkins, and Jetty etc.

If some technology donor offers, we will try to leverage their platform. For e.g. if Google / LinkedIn / Facebook / Twitter offers their platform with customization, it gives fastest/highest impact as we are on war-foot process. Building the process becomes easy.

Monthly visits of Popular sites:LinkedIn has over 575+ million users, with more than 260 million monthly active users. Google.com 60 billion, Youtube.com 24,Facebook.com 19, Baidu 9, Wikipedia 4, Twitter 3, Yahoo 3, Instagram 3 etc

If any of these donor companies offer their solution, we are happy to leverage their technology as they have already proved the scale.

AGP platform does the crisis counselling for an individual. Crisis intervention minimizes the stress levels, provides emotional support, and improves individual’s coping strategies, thus preserves the skill. Although individual works for couple of projects in next 1-2 years, but results are going to be long lasting. It helps to cope themselves and grow stronger from the experience / teamwork offered by the platform.

the current number of people you’re serving: Not yet

the number you’ll be serving in one year : atleast 1 million

the number you’ll be serving in five years: more than 300 million Job Seekers and Students

First Year : Partnerships and Donors Identification (Technology Donors, CSR funding and Govt)

2nd year  : Reach through social media and Govt platforms, Registrations, Projects Identification, Mapping etc

3rd Year : Project Execution and credits saving

4th Year : Projects completion, Postive Engagement Index Calculations and Impact results

5th Year : Publish the impact and wind-off the current project. Based on the interest, extend.

1. Customizing Terms and Conditions for every project without any legal disputes among contributes.

2. Convincing Job providers about the trustworthiness of service credits in future prospects

Others: 

3. Convincing Large corporation to offer their technical services

4. Convincing Govts and NGOs to be part of this process model

Using the power of network. I have 8000+ LinkedIn contacts and 5000+ Facebook contacts includes CEOs, Change Makers etc. I will convince using the power of network

Will approach UN members to strategige the whole project

Write to all Presidents of 196 countries to be part of this universal product

Write to Google, Microsoft, Gates Foundation, Facebook, Twitter etc to offer their platform for a cause

The only known solution for any such large change is Appeal, Appeal and Appeal.

Our Center for Innovation and Incubation has 2 dedicated members and 6 part-time members. We have an army of 100+ students who can contribute towards this cause. As we progress, we will increase full-time depending on the partnerships made and acceptance. 

About the Project Lead: I am the founding Director and Established Center for Innovation and Incubation (CFII) (in 2010) and Center for Career Planning (CCP) (2018). Working with startpreneurs and enthusiastic students in promoting innovative traits, entrepreneurial thinking and developed model to plan career according to social-psycho-physical nature . I am the Founder of “Inspire to Innovate Storytelling Movement”, to inspire young minds through storytelling (spreading positive stories of amazing people), reaching more than 20000+ subscribers. I was a Founder, Srujana and Dukeship Consulting, a social enterprise to campaign Innovation in engineering education (2011 to 2014). I am working as Mentor, MentorEdge, CIIE (Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmadabad) and advisory member to few product startups. During my stint at Wipro, I worked extensively on mega outsourcing deals, management consulting assignments. Worked with customers across globe like Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson, FedEx, JP Morgan, Charles Schwab, EMC, Avaya, OKI-Data etc and visited many countries on various consulting assignments. I did my Ph.D in Innovation Management, Master of Computer Applications, MBA in Human Resource Management and GMP from IIM Bangalore.

Other Team Members: We have committed team with same passion who share similar objective. We will ramp up the team with this goal

I am currently working with Center for Innovation and Incubation, Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam, AP, India. We intend to partner with technology donors, govt, and large scale NGOs.

AGP is not positioned under commercial or revenue generating product rather it is categorized as mission service product. It connect project providers and job seekers. The currency is a service credit. Immediately, we don't intend to monetize the service credits but as we progress, we can monetize them. Each service credit earned can be purchased by the job seeker to make them permanent service credits in AGP Service credit bank.

We wish to make like a Wikepedia model. We want to raise donations and grants through CSR activity. Post maturity and stabilization of COVID situation, we will start converting service credits to permanent service credits by paying something. 

Solve is a global platform with a portfolio of 130 Solver teams tackling the world's most pressing problems. We want to leverage their experience, terms and conditions used, leverage their networking platforms. We want agile model. Solve can only bring it.

Solve's core strength is networking. Our platform success depends on networking.

Solve's advisors list is eminent clan in the world. We want to take this proposal to Solve's team as we have to convince large tech platforms and govt.

We have to go to UN/Govts. Solve platform can provide the reach of this scale.

Solution technology- Like Google, LinkedIn, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter etc

Legal or regulatory matters- Every project needs a customization of the terms and conditions in determining service credits, distribution of credits among team members, country specific laws, and final delivery (taxation etc). 

Board members or advisors: we have to convince UN/GOvts, Large corporations to provide CSR funding etc

Talent recruitment: Service credits have to be accepted by talent recruitment teams. They are going to be key in this.

Funding and revenue model: We want donors and contributors

Business Model: At later stage, we want to monetize these service credits. 

Solution technology- Like Google, LinkedIn, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter etc

Institutions like MIT- for acceptance among communities and students

Others: contributing funds and problems devising.

It is a “Collaborative Ant Gig Platform” to share Critical Resources, Skills, Hiring, Business using AGP Service Credits Bank, inspired by ANT-GIG models.

Resources are Positively Engaged on developing Social Infrastructure. It is going to be Community Developed, Maintained and Mutual Cooperative Platform.

Post COVID-19, Worldwide at least 500+ million skilled people , Wait for their next job, failing, Look for an alternative career. Worldwide at least 800+ million skilled students, wait for their first job and look for career navigation. For this scale of operations, we need access to such a esteemed prize donar.