Verified Engagement Platform Backend Implementation, Integration, and Commercialization

The past two years have shown increasing distrust through online division, polarizing protests and strikes, and destructive riots. This problem has gotten worse due to our unverified, disorganized, and time consuming citizen and stakeholder engagement systems, especially social media, focus groups and town halls, and voting. In order to solve the problem of increasing distrust by implementing a platform that provides verified, targeted, and ongoing proactive engagement, Veras Technologies Inc. will work with intern Mohammed Rakeeb to implement, integrate, and commercialize a verified citizen and stakeholder engagement platform. The intern will first create and update a minimum viable product backend and facial recognition system using AWS (Amazon Web Services) to onboard early users and sell to early adopters. Then the intern will connect the old backend of the platform to the blockchain and AI backend, developed by other interns in a different Mitacs project. Veras hopes to use this project to implement, integrate, and commercialize their product. The intern hopes to utilize this project to grow his technical, professional, and interdisciplinary skills that will provide himself a professional work environment foundation to advance the transferable skills needed to have a successful career after university graduation.

Faculty Supervisor:

John Salmon

Student:

Partner:

Veras

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Social Innovation; Cyber Security

University:

University of Alberta; University of Calgary

Program: