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GroWorth trustees would love to invest all our time building value enabling communities with the LocalSocial platform so please support us to support our communities.
GroWorth Trust: Public Benefits Organization (PBO) Registration Number: IT001316/2023(T).
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All rewards offered in exchange for donations are modest tokens of appreciation and do not provide any direct or substantial benefits to donors. These rewards are intended solely as a gesture of gratitude for your generous support of GroWorth Trust and the Linkedio service.
By participating in our donations and crowdfunding campaign, you acknowledge that your donation is a voluntary contribution to a Public Benefit Organization and is tax-deductible under Section 18A of the South African Income Tax Act.
The issuance of rewards does not constitute a commercial transaction or an exchange of value beyond the acknowledgment of your support.
GroWorth Trust reserves the right to modify or discontinue rewards at any time without prior notice.
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Community Catalyst for Change
- You are the change Linkedio communities needs
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Funding Requirements
The GroWorth team would love to spend all our productivity on GroWorth to further enhance the Linkedio platform.
At present all development and capabilities are funded by our team both monetary and time.
We require funding to permanently employ qualified people to manage the organization, programs and technology to further extend Linkedio technology solutions for communities.
Funding Support Required:
Linkedio will achieve the following milestones to build the complete system once LinkedioX is production-ready:
Phase 1:
- LinkedioX: Generative AI Branding Solution (Current Funding Request)
- LinkedioTrade:
Launch an open-source trading marketplace enabling registered and verified members to trade goods using barter, digital currencies, and cash. - LinkedAccount:
Develop automated transactional accounting integrated with third-party online accounting and CRM systems for small businesses.
Phase 2:
LinkedCommunity:
Establish community management team and committees, register a community as an NGOs to receive donations, create programs and projects, promote small businesses, and collaborate with local governments to enhance community economics using Linkedio platform data to recommend effective methods, investments and movements for improvements.
Phase 3:
LinkedSocial:
Facilitate real-time community interactions through posts, chats, forums, billboards, and listings. Utilize social media engagement to promote and support local projects and foster global collaborations and movements.
"With Linkedio's GenAI solutions, SMEs will pivot, as our technology learns their business voice, automate content and distribution, generates business leads combined with integrated accounting to facilitate trade and automate administration, all free of charge." GroWorth Trust
Administration
- Management and administration
- Funding management
- Marketing & content management
- Legal & regulatory management
- Partnerships management
- Volunteer enablement
We have costs associated with the Linkedio Platform such as management, hosting, development & integration, quality control, support, data and other related costs.
- Code quality of the platform
- Compliance to global legal frameworks and practices
- Manage regulatory requirements
- Decentralization of architecture
- Develop community based service automations of the platform
- Develop core platform capabilities such as blockchain, security and access control
- Ensure regulatory compliance (finance & administration)
- Employ Linkedio platform & integration delivery team (Open-Source projects & integrations)
- Employ our core GroWorth quality source control team (Linkedio platform central source control)
- Ensure all global legal and privacy requirements (Governance, Risk, Compliance)
- Build community enabling technology solutions
- Run open-source projects for integrations
- Support the Open-Source systems we host both technically and community supported
- Produce documentation and training content for the system's ease of use
- Build and integrated trade network directly with Agri-Farming communities (suppliers, buyers, producers, distributors)
- Enable the Agri-Farming community to trade with any currencies directly with communities and supply chains
- Develop the GroWorth mobile trading application
We have marketing costs to ensure we attain momentum on the platform and expand it's capabilities globally free of charge
- On-line
- Events
- Market to the Agri-Farming community to build our community
- Market to communities
We have supplier and partnership related costs to ensure we have the necessary partnerships in place to ensure the deployment of the platform solutions to both businesses and communities
- System integrators (ICT suppliers)
- Technology vendors & providers
- Government integrations
We truly hope you see value in our services and trust you will support us to grow independent thriving communities.
Funding Budget
Our objective is to secure continuous funding to employ some our volunteers into permanent positions.
Phase 1: Core Team
Our core team will work on Open Source community and project management
- Leadership
- Administrator
- Auditor (Outsourced)
- Funding Manager
- Senior Business Analyst
- Open Source Community Manager
- Open Source Project Manager
Phase 2: The following volunteers will join the Core Technical Team
- Solution Architects
- Infrastructure Architects
- Security Architects
- BlockChain Architects
- Support Specialists
- Full Stack Developers
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