Year after year e-commerce and sharing / gig economy platforms are increasingly becoming the first option to achieve many products or services, but at the same time these platforms are becoming more and more invasive regarding users’ privacy.
Through data analysis this companies are collecting patterns on every single operation users do, details about preferences, tracking of visited websites, behaviors that through AI can maximize marketing efficiency. Just because these companies know exactly users’ tastes, opinions and even psychological characteristics, this knowledge can be so profound to pursue even the manipulation of their needs and desires.
Company as Facebook, Google Amazon, Spotify, Uber (and many others..) radically changed the former idea of business. They have dematerialized their income assets and can maximize income thanks to data provided by users for free (or sometimes even paying).
Ok, so far nothing new, but…
When Globalized companies are mapping digital activities, linking information to extended communities, the priority for this companies can be synthesized with the terms of sharing through horizontal relationship their own digital platform.
This network effect gives free service to the masses and high centralized capital gains to this global companies.
In an ideal community when a data driven business reach a critical mass to become efficient, the company is able to create habits, limiting others businesses ability to join into competition. Today is difficult to listen to music in alternative ways when our friends always share us Youtube videos or Spotify links.

Data and the relationship between users creating and providing data to the platform are now the ground where this kind of business lays on. Unfortunately, this companies create an imperfect competition within each industry.
They have very little infrastructural cost by nature, thus the power of accumulation of capital is pretty fast and asymmetric. Many sharing economy services create a searchable and closed network that gives them high economical power to the data owners or providers on that single niche segment (e.g. Airbnb on room reservations or BlaBlaCar on transport sharing).
Moreover, the centralization of an industry lead to the destruction of local wealth. No taxi agencies can compete with Uber, and no chain store of libraries with Amazon, anymore.
“The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back. […] Apple makes its money off of good products, not off of you. As they say, with Facebook, you are the product.”
- Steve Wozniak
You’re probably familiar with Cambridge Analytica, the firm that harvested data on 87 million US Facebook users. This case is not alone, in recent years a batch of surveillance companies, operating in a far more clandestine manner in comparison to Cambridge Analytica and its partners, have been infiltrating all kinds of social media platforms.

These spy-tech vendors are offering services not only to co-opt and influence social media groups with sock puppet accounts, but will even deliver spyware via the fake profiles they create and send across different platforms.
“Big surveillance companies are only able to do this because they exploit a broader ecosystem. Fundamentally, Facebook and other companies have a responsibility to protect their users”
warned Edin Omanovic, head of Privacy International’s State Surveillance project.
Facebook changed its policies to stop allowing app creators to access data about users friends unless the user’s friends had also authorized the app, however some vulnerabilities are still there.
… is free service a fair compensation for users data?
… is the use of these platforms really free?
According to some data reported, a fan is worth less than 5 dollars a day (calculating that Facebook in 2016 recorded a growth of 51% of revenues with a turnover of 8.81 billion USD and an audience of 1.86 billion subscribers).
According to Social Flow, a fan is worth $14.17.
Services such as Value of a Like or Instagram money calculator show quite simply the value range of an Instagram page, a Facebook Like and the engagement that they can reach on their pages. This value is therefore real and is paid by users.
What is the currency to pay for these “free” services? Users attention.

The lack of trust is definitely justified as the right for privacy is mandatory.
“No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks”
- 12th article of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In 2017, the data flow was worth $200 billion and it will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.7%.
Data analysis can be useful and AI helps users to be matched easily with what they could like and need, but they should have a compensation and control over data they provide.
Is not acceptable anymore to be treated as unpaid data factories.
What we, as Localflow, want to structure is a radical change on the Data economy, giving users and businesses access and control on what they are providing and sharing, rewarding them for the growing of the ecosystem.
Localflow wants to bring a local decentralized ecosystem to life, making possible to local services to emerge.
We aim at revolutionizing the local economy: granting total privacy for users and by the other hand improving small local shops and entities visibility.
So that who really is moving local economy like shops, cinemas, groceries, plumbers and so on, will show they data, working hours, calendars, products or services provided, but users will be able to control shared data.
There will be no prerecorded personal data, and will be possible to erase completely search history and bot answers.
Localflow don’t want to know who you are and what you do, because we will not make value from selling personal data, they will not be given or sold to third party companies or organizations because they are never collected in relation to a single person. Data will be used only for anonymized general statistics without possibility to relate them back to specific users.
So in this model, it is not necessary to exploit personal information because the whole technological infrastructure will be sustained by small and fair fees on the local economic network, real sharing economy services and local marketing campaigns.
Blockchain technology can help to maintain online privacy, having digital identity connected with their id on telegram or in the Localflow platform and an anti-money laundering Digital certificate connected with subledgers. So legal compliance and privacy could match parallelly.
At the same time service provided now by workers in many gig economy companies, such us in transportations or delivery that are subjected to low gains and fractured work hours, could find a new more respectful working structure.

Decentralization as the core of privacy
Centralization of data: a company has in its hands our data and even our reputation. This lead to the effect of a single point of failure (SPOF) vulnerable to hacks and malevolent use.
The application of Decentralized Ledger Technologies is perfectly suitable to resolve the SPOF problem and the concentration of data. A distributed and decentralized data storage is key to take worth data off from companies that have been selling our information as their own cash flow model.
How to make it possible? How can an individual be part of a decentralized network? Localflow gives to local business and entrepreneur “user-friendly tools” to start this revolution and get involved into the local community and local chats.
The first tools the Localflow will provide are a network of chatbots, that can be considered as “Artificial Conversational Entities”.

This chatbots are small programs, that can be launched on many different mainstream platforms (Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Wechat, Amazon Echo, etc…), which can conduct a conversation via auditory or textual methods.
They are commonly used for B2C customer service, sales and marketing.
But as we know, the most of nowadays chatbot are centralized, leading that owner’s company can check and sell personal information to third party entities.
Localflow, instead, will use the protocol named Masked Authenticated Messaging (MAM) provided by the IOTA foundation to warranty privacy to consumers. Getting deeper, MAM is used as the message dispatching mechanism for any chatbots in the Localflow network.

MAM enables nodes to exchange data on the Tangle, fully authenticated and encrypted. When the network is extended and the community will have traction, a local sharing economy ecosystem will be created to be efficient, fair and local.
At least, it remains a big issue: why local business should be involved in this?
Well, tokens economy may be a good explanation. The ideas are the following: if individuals are participating in the network, they can gain some tokens that can be spent for other services in the network, from using EWA’s to push word of mouth influencer activities in the local communities or specific chatbot modules.
As Adam Smith pointed out:
“individual interest moves the economy”
The centralization of vital and personal information is the crucial business of many companies, but at the expense of individuals’ privacy. On the web, big players are selling our personal information to other companies that can altered our decision.
Our information’s are now given totally for free and users are not gaining nothing from it. Decentralized Ledger Technologies (DLT) can improve this situation, making individuals protected and owners of their own personal information, able to be rewarded if they want to share them.
Decentralization and distribution can so organize a competition against big players through the token advantage for participating into the community.
Make others understand the possibility ahead will be one of the greatest challenge.. but we like difficult games…

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I'm reporting a couple of articles that give numbers of the problem of weapons in the United States. The US is in fact the first, among the economically developed states, to have a higher number of voluntary killings, gun violence and weapons owners.
Problems of this kind can not be faced based on what people think of weapons or personal safety. It is a problem that needs to be faced by looking at the whole picture, evaluating on a social level what impact it has and how other states deal with this problem. Every American observing a high rate of violence will certainly think that having a gun is a good thing. Holding a gun will deter criminals from bothering you, right? Anyone will say that is better own a gun with a thief in front of him. But what we forget is that it is much more common that even the thief owns a gun and certainly the thief who owns it has psychiatric disorders or has good reason to shoot you and steal what you have. This idea belongs very much to a world made up of cowboys, far west and slavery in which every citizen does not trust the role of the state and the police but only trusts himself. The police are highly trained to intervene, a citizen, on the other hand, is not trained (even if they have a regular license for weapons). A policeman is trained to kill a criminal only if the criminal make an attempt on people's lives, not to shoot him for trying to steal. Let us remember that stealing others' things is a crime, but killing a person is something much bigger than a crime: it is an abomination. Are there too many junkies? Resolve the drug problem with political maneuvers (have you done a good job with cigarettes why not with drugs?). Do you have a problem with racism? Solve that problem (you were born immigrants). The Europeans, unlike yours, have suffered many wars and many violence over the centuries. We have suffered invasions, genocide, destructions and we are increasingly armed until we have understood one thing: more guns did not help, there was a need for more communication and to solve problems among people. We know what the value of peace is among peoples and among nations. We know well what an entire country is armed: to violence. For decades, the US has continued to arm and arm their citizens by being ready for a war that they are not suffering but are causing.
Arming people makes the state useless, which should be the only appropriate authority to protect the lives of its citizens.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/america-s-gun-problem-explained-1060655345
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#United_States
http://theconversation.com/u-s-gun-violence-is-a-symptom-of-a-long-historical-problem-92322

the USA is among the most violent western states with the highest homicide rate. Why? because in the US they give you weapons (not just guns) even when you are ordering an hamburger.... no other state has so many shootings in schools, cinemas and other public places. You are obsessed with violence. In Europe there are no problems with guns because only police can have them. You may have the misfortune of finding a thief in your house or someone who wants to hurt you and you may be killed. But this is life and allowing anyone to have a weapon is not the solution. Otherwise the US should no longer have problems with theft and violence, and this is not true, right?

certainly the possibilities of the AI ​​are still limited but the strength of this technology lies in its enormous potential! We have now reached a level unthinkable until a few years ago. In particular we are developing our AI with a technology called R.A.N. https://medium.com/assist/theres-a-dozen-ways-to-order-a-coffee-why-do-dumb-bots-only-allow-one-27230542636d

Here are some critical issues that this technology can improve:

• It allows the user to change their mind without going back, reducing the hassles of the intricate browsing of "old" chatbots;
• It detects all parameters required to perform an intent evaluating the CONTEXT of the sentence and not just the individual inputs;
• It works seamlessly with web views.

We do not want the AI ​​to take the place of a human being (at least for personal relationships). Most likely it will do so in the near future, but we aim to bring people together and create places of aggregation. Getting to know each other and looking at each other when they go to an event or buy a product in a store. We are not "Luddites", but we think that everything we do would be better if we only interacted a bit more with other people. Our bot gives indications to go to a place and meet people, make real personal relationships or buy a product by touching it with your hand. Our technology is not aggressive or intrusive, it does not replace man. It simply tries to connect people looking for something of quality with people who are opinion leaders in that area and in that local area. It's exactly like always having a good tip at the right time and in the right place.

We have also integrated the system of the bot also in the webpage (https://www.localflow.com). So while waiting for the tool to be trained better and better, there will also be a simpler system for researching and creating events or services.

As regards the protection of user data we are using IOTA M.A.M. technology https://blog.iota.org/introducing-masked-authenticated-messaging-e55c1822d50e?gi=ad6134b4e4a5. The data you insert in the bot in response to its questions will only be read by other network nodes consistent with your search criteria and will be permanently deleted at the end of the session. We do not care about the trends of your purchases or interests. Each time you will always have to answer the few questions the bot will ask you to look for what you want at that moment (hic et nunc)

This is an excellent observation and actually in the post is not explained in depth. The need to decentralize the whole infrastructure comes from some of the needs we have encountered in the real network of SMEs:

• difficulty in efficiently using modern tools for e-commerce and social networks. The ROI for a business owner not experienced in using digital media is quite low. We all know the difficulty in creating a winning strategy to promote your product or service online. The technology that should approach the public and make things simpler very often creates even more complexity;
• it is not just the technologies that are centralized. in fact, there is also a very dangerous centralization of both monetary resources (fee for food delivery services up to 30%) and information (often subtracted unconsciously or in an unclearly informed way). This thing in the mid-long term will continue to increasingly impoverish the local areas around large urban centers.

IOTA is not yet decentralized and clearly not even Localflow. To complete both projects as indicated on the whitepaper it will take time (not too much, just a little).

Decentralizing in our vision acquires a very concrete sense: to bring as close as possible the technology to people who need to use it (also the DLT). When we complete the first version of the platform we will open the possibility to all developers to create more specific chatbot modules that can meet any need (even in terms of ease of use). Decentralization therefore we mean it in the broadest sense: not only of the ledger but also of information and the design and use of technology.
The goal of Localflow is not to impose products created in one company to a huge audience, but to listen to who will have to use them. This idea is also enhanced by the overcoming of the pay-per-click dynamic: there will no longer be a competition for those who accumulate more visualization or more attention to the detriment of product quality, but for those offering the best service or product. In this way the focus is placed on the protagonists of local economies. There will no longer be any need to think about how to optimize your visibility by trying to become a digital marketing expert. to improve your visibility it will simply be necessary to offer a better service. No "likes" but LIVE witnesses, the success and quality of the event or product is determined by the people really present (try it now in our bot). Every worker and person in this world will be encouraged to do better what he does and what he lives for, having a technological means that helps him without imposing his scheme but enhancing that of people and relationships that bind them quickly, intuitively and without making them addicted.

Here you are a list of books and articles that might interest you, for other questions you can make them directly in our telegram groups https://t.me/localflow

• The attention merchants - Tim Wu
• https://www.forbes.com/consent/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/mnewlands/2017/10/20/micro-influencers-have-taken-over-social-media-marketing-heres-how/
• Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language - Robin Dunbar
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• Homo deus - Yuval Noah Harari
• Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - Nicolas Carr
• Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity - Hartmut Rosa

Hi Trumper, good comment! I'll try to answer you
Our token will be an index of the real transactions in the network we are building. It is not configured to be a security token or a short term investment. Leaving aside that in this period it is really difficult to think of a token that gives gains in the short term, we are trying to immediately distribute EWA token to the people who really help the project in a meaningful way. Not through simple airdrops but through LOCALDROP (15% of distribution). By making the token already in circulation and immediately giving it a real and concrete purpose, we try to make the value of the token less volatile and more compliant with harmonious growth. The project has many interesting nuances and manages to hit many areas: not only the best navigability through AI but also proposing a truly decentralized system based on the exchanges that humanity has always encouraged: word of mouth. Localflow is a project that proposes a highly innovative word of mouth 2.0, distraction free (just read the information you are no longer dependent on the smartphone), and that respects user data.
The ICOs of the last 2 years did great! But how many ICOs have failed? We believe that good projects can not be done quickly, with false numbers or with networks of a few influential people. We believe that the blockchain and this whole world is born open source and in the same way should continue to create great projects: with the feedback of everyone and with the help of everyone willing to listen this change

The social network has tweaked its financial product scam ban, now allowing ads that promote cryptocurrency and related content from pre-approved advertisers only.

I think it's not a bad thing. It used to provide information more focused on the various projects compared to the simple sale of tokens during the ICO. What do you think about it?

Grazie mille! E se conosci qualcuno che potrebbe essere interessato segnala pure 

trends are momentary, the big projects are forever

CHATBOT DEVELOPER

You will join the team creating AI assistants for Telegram, Messenger and WeChat,
covering use-cases for local economy and IoT-smart cities.
Localflow is boosting the local economy of tomorrow, enhancing personal
microservices, peer-to-peer exchanges and automatized businesses with artificial
intelligence.

Responsibility
Take part in the bot framework design and development
Develop specific bots around nich use-cases
Design robust conversational interfaces
Integrate third party API services

Requirements
Strong knowledge of JavaScript NodeJS (ES5, ES6)
Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, scalable software design
Passion for writing clean code and investigate new ways of doing things
Ability to abstract and generalize solutions
Being self-starter, a great communicator and a solid technical contributor
Comfortable with Agile development

Plus
You experimented with Telegram and WeChat bot API
You contribute to open source
You worked with NLP services and RAN models
You know of Python and Ruby

Contract
Open positions are for: freelance, fixed-term or permanent. Compensation and benefits
will be discussed according to the experience level.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary, Contract

Salary: €1,300.00 to €3,000.00 /month


DEVOPS DEVELOPER

You will join the DevOps team that maintains our CI environment, orchestrate the
chatbot platform deployment and integrations. You will be interacting with back and and
full stack engineers.
Localflow is boosting the local economy of tomorrow, enhancing personal
microservices, peer-to-peer exchanges and automatized businesses with artificial
intelligence.

Responsibility
Continuously develop and improve our CI pipeline
Collaborate across teams to improve integration & release process
Integrate the platform infrastructure with third party cloud applications

Requirements
Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructures
Proficient in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ruby and/or Perl
Experience with Rancher, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
Experience with Unix utilities, configuration and administration
Experience with Microsoft Azure is preferred
Self-motivated and enjoying a steep learning curve
Strong debugging and problem solving skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills

Plus
Exposure to software processes, unit testing, code analysis and code coverage
Experience with REST APIs
Contract
Open positions are for: freelance, fixed-term or permanent. Compensation and benefits
will be discussed according to the experience level.

Job Types: Part-time, Temporary, Contract

Salary: €1,300.00 to €3,000.00 /month


FULL STACK DEVELOPER

You will join the web development team, building the platform for modular chatbots
creation and deployment.
You will extensively work on the entire application stack, interacting with IOTA and
Ethereum integration experts, the devops team, the bot builders and UX designers.
Localflow is boosting the local economy of tomorrow, enhancing personal
microservices, peer-to-peer exchanges and automatized businesses with artificial
intelligence.

Responsibility
Take part in the design of the platform for modular chatbot creation
Extend and maintain the token rewarding architecture
Integration of the token wallet, iota and fiat payments

Requirements
Deep knowledge in the entire web development process (design, development
and deployment) across the UI stack covering HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6)
frameworks like AngularJS/ReactJS

Strong knowledge of Ruby on Rails
Strong knowledge of Postgres, mongodb and redis
Solid foundation in data structures and scalable software design
Passion for writing clean code and investigate new patterns
Ability to abstract and generalize solutions
Comfortable with Agile development

Plus
You like team working and contributing to open source
You like to help, teach and mentor your colleagues
You experimented with Elastic Search
Contract
Open positions are for: freelance, fixed-term or permanent. Compensation and benefits
will be discussed according to the experience level.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary, Contract

Salary: €1,300.00 to €3,000.00 /month


For any positions, please send me your apply and CV to: andrea@localflow.com

Artificial Intelligence is a concept that can be summarized in a simplistic way as “machines that can learn to perform certain tasks in an increasingly intelligent way”.
The AI ​​technology we are most focused in is Natural Language Processing (NLP), this technology gives the possibility to integrate the power of machine learning into messaging Apps, in order to understand requests from users expressed in common natural language.
This system will build new models to interface with IT, all made possible by neural networks that can be trained. A whole new level of marketing sophistication will be offered, particularly for influencer marketing, bringing a more scientific approach to influencing businesses and places to maximize return on investment (ROI).
There is undoubtedly a disparity between SMEs and large multinational corporations: the latter, with high budgets, are in a unique position to demand the attention of social platforms, while those who do not have large capital are in a disadvantaged position. Internet and share economy services are presented as available to anyone and able to bring about real changes and the possibility of increasing their visibility. But is this really true? According to Statista, social media marketing spending amounts to about $ 13.5 billion in the United States alone in 2017.
In 2018, brands will increasingly use their spending power to collaborate with social platforms, also to help them teach their traditional creative teams to develop social content. But are there any feasible solutions even for SMEs?
What will the marketing force of the future be? Microinfluencers

Ok, ok… but who are Micro-Influencers?
Micro-influencers are defined as people with a social media follow-up of around 1,000–100,000 followers, who maintain a medium or small audience, but they build an excellent trust relationship with their followers.
When determining friends and “nearer” acquaintances, 1,000 followers are enough to have a “weight” on Instagram for example. Unlike influencers, who count several hundred or millions of followers, micro-influencers establish themselves as opinion leaders in one or more specific sectors. Each of these micro-influencers will in turn be followers of other influencers in other areas of interest, structuring the entire digital network as a network where you can potentially find the right advice whenever you search it.
Between 20% and 50% of purchases take place behind the phenomena of the “word of mouth”.
Big influencers usually focus on a very large audience and make commercial agreements with third parties trying to expand their followers pool more and more. They do this through the release of smart contents or covert marketing campaigns aimed at making product placement by hiding it under the friendly image they have established with their audience.
Localflow allows to overcome what they call the “paradox of the authenticity of the influencer”, the idea that people with more followers are less authentic. It’s obvious that the people closest to you have more influence on the decisions you make, thus the more an influencer increases their follow-up, the less importance they have for their audience. Otherwise, any user who wants to become a micro-influencer in a local group of Localflow, remains clearly linked to its territorial area, limiting its ability to quit its role as an opinion leader of the territory. This approach, though with defined limits, actually goes to make the most of the ROI for the local promotion of services and events, reducing at most the possibilities of forcing the “ game ” of the visibility widening and consequently reduction of the relationship of trust that normally occur with social networks.
That’s why the rates of involvement diminish over the number of followers above 1k. According to a study conducted by Markerly, a profile with 1,000 followers records an engagement rate of 8%, while a base fan composed of 10,000 users drops to 4%. As the number of followers increases, the engagement rate decreases, reaching 1.7% with 1 million fans.


Instagram Like Rate vs. Followership (source Markerly)


Instagram Comment Rate vs. Followership (source Markerly)

It turns out that a profile with fewer than 1,000 followers gets around 6 times more comments and likes than a profile with more than 100,000 fans. They reach a more targeted audience.


Localflow is the first service that pays attention to local niches and to the network of advice and opinions that every member of that community can make available to the community. The role of micro-influencers in the most popular social platforms, however, is rewarded little, increasingly delineating a remarkable gap between the monetization that manages to derive the great influencer with a less trusted audience than the micro-influencer with a smaller audience but more trusted.


Our promotion system is based on including all the protagonists of a particular local area, developing these principles:

• Do not market to them, market with them. Using the Localflow chatbots you will be able to receive feedback on your products, naturally stimulated by the community. Influencers will manage conversations and promotion of your product or service by freely sharing their impressions and becoming an active part of the promotion chain. The rewards with EWA token will guarantee and stimulate a virtuous and correct attitude of the platform, keeping as many resources within the local areas;
• Smaller is better. Our micro-influencer are encouraged to act within the specific area where they work or spend most of the day, having the opportunity to meet their followers, during their events or through their services and to have a credibility that is not only virtual but real. Thus, even if every single local community could be smaller, overall they certainly have some impact;
• Break down barriers of consumer-created content. Each influencer is in turn a follower of other influencers, and each Localflow user is a content creator in the field. To get the most interesting content from consumers, we need to treat them as intelligent and experienced individuals who should be rewarded for their work. With Localflow the creation of events and services is fast and intuitive, allowing anyone to share their content. Localflow will also stimulate the creation of content through campaigns that will reward users for creating quality events;
• Authentic Relationships. To be effective, influencers must approve a product because they like it, not because they have been compensated. Feedback on influencers in Localflow is direct and conversational. There are no like, reported followers, or any number that defines each user as more influential. The influence must be conquered each time by participating actively in public or private groups, talking to their followers and proposing services or events to the community where everyone has the opportunity to get to know each other. The revolution of Localflow is to go from “show and appear” to “conversing and getting involved”: everyone is able to conquer the definition of opinion leader at any time if he is able to do so;
• Highly automated reward system. EWA token rewarding is done by both the main LocalflowBot chatbot, through the LocaldropTM distribution model and by each business according to the amount they allocated for their local promotion campaigns. The philosophy is that if you pay too much people, they may feel compelled to say something positive about your brand, whether that is their true feeling or not. The smaller the sphere of influence, the less likely it is that each influencer exploits it in a non-virtuous or honest way. Every micro influencer of the Localflow network is important, defining us as an empowerment company.

Crypto tokens are special kind of virtual currency tokens that reside on their own blockchains and represent an asset or utility. EWA is an Ethereum erc223 token created to power the Localflow network and aims to be used to buy the business' services, power the reward schema, and thin the exchanges of goods and services.

Localflow strives to be a collaborative platform to assemble and deploy decentralized domain- specific chatbots focused on small and medium sized businesses, their supply chains and on private individuals that offer services in their communities. Through Localflow people discover, contribute and use local information and offers without the need for a centralized intermediary.
People’s attention is rewarded with EWA tokens when they add or broadcast genuine content.
Businesses, retailers, and private individuals assemble their own modular bots from the component collection of the platform and can allocate EWA from their wallets to better rank their bots and related information in the local search index. Anyone is rewarded with EWA for creating meet-ups and high-quality social activities.


EWA token - circulation model for social activities.

Developers and data analysts are rewarded with EWA for publishing new bot components, enhancing language translations, maintaining the hybrid human-artificial intelligence engine, the Natural Language Processing module and any other contribution to the project.
Check the Whitepaper to see the other smart contracts with details.

Private microservices and businesses can activate two direct payment gateways, crypto (EWA, IOTA, BTC and ETH are the first to be supported) and FIAT (credit card). At the other end, chatbot users can access their wallet via chatbot, opting for paying for goods and services, choosing one of their preferred currencies. They can also redeem discounts using EWA tokens.
The wallet v.0.1 is currently available for testing in beta, you can follow the Telegram international group to know more about the beta testing program or send us an email to ewatoken@localflow.com

Localdrops are EWA tokens distributed through @LocalflowBot chatbot, consistently with the Localflow concept: when people make virtuous actions for their local economy, e.g. event creation, invitation of other people, quality content promotion, new business creation, etc they will receive EWA tokens in their personal wallet balance.
Community influencers are rewarded with EWA for reaching out to additional people for the Localflow and for motivating local businesses to build and deploy specific bots, promote them within interesting chat groups, and for sponsoring the Localflow ecosystem in other networks.

30% of EWA total supply will be dedicated to this, 15% before TGE and 15% after TGE across 2 years according to the business development plan. Ultimately, this geographically spread local token distribution won’t dilute the total market value, because business adoption and real commercial exchanges drive the token velocity counterbalancing volatility.


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EWA tokens will be generated and distributed simultaneously with the release of the service supporting real usage, namely the Localflow network. From now till the Token Generation Event (which is scheduled in the 3rd quarter 2018), people can reserve EWA tokens through a SAFT (Simple Agreement for Future Tokens), send us an email to ewatoken@localflow.com for more info.


Localflow allows the creation and customization of decentralized chatbots, immersed in your local communities. The resulting network is optimized to serve fast local exchanges and genuine untracked information production and sharing.
The connected world of private individuals and local businesses, indeed, lacks a tool for building flexible, effective and fast local profit accelerators that can provide granular access to goods and services with high privacy standards. A tool with which local activities, events, products and services can be promoted, sold and instantly delivered by and for the real actors of the local economy.


The purpose of Localflow is to foster local exchanges all over the world delivering an open AI-powered local search engine through a decentralized chatbot network connected to private services, business offers and the authentic activities run by the people.
We are building a secure AI, chatbot and blockchain tool, where local businesses can reach and serve customers more efficiently than traditional digital channels.
The infrastructure is based on the use of a decentralized structure: the IOTA Tangle, a direct acyclic graph structure (DAG), suitable for allowing users to make instant transactions with 0% fees.
Using MAM technology, Localflow guarantees the protection of user information with high standards of privacy using quantum-proof security.
Through the release of EWA token (an ERC223 standard utility token on the Ethereum blockchain), users are able to build their chatbots, manage their transactions with smart contracts and access special discounts within the network. The circulation of EWA tokens is driven by businesses and micro-influencers which promote the creation, sharing and access to goods, services and offers in a particular local area.

• Resilient because conceived, adopted and improved by the users themselves, people, microinfluencers and local businesses.
• Glocal because it is available worldwide but the use is local and invests in the territory.
• Simple because you can just write your sentence and let the Natural Language Processing do the rest. It’s not an App but it's already present in conversational Apps! Best interface is no interface!
• Enabler because it allows to design chatbots for economic activities (Bar, Shop or any service) coupling them to local communities.
• Decentralized because based on DLT like the blockchain and DAG.
• Distraction free completely automated and ad-free platform. The use of the platform encourages rapid and non-addictive use, in order to devote energy and resources to real life.

Localflow focus on the local economy as it allows local actors to regain those margins that today are kept by Gig Economy players, without exploiting user data.
Localflow brings attention to local exchanges, which during the digital revolution have increasingly suffered from a progressive impoverishment due to the high commissions and the exploitation of the personal data of the users. Localflow exceeds the keywords auction system for visibility purchasing, allowing to bring together “lost” customers with e-commerce.
The “pay per click" (PPC) auctioning system of keywords proposed, for instance by Google AdWords and other services (GAFAs) is not fully exploitable by SMEs, because it is too expensive in terms of money and time, and is not suitable for a more localized search for products and services in a given area.
Visibility is gained by creating and sharing real and quality events and not by paying a keyword (SEM) or by managing them through a SEO strategy, giving everyone the opportunity and freedom to promote their quality content at zero cost. Peers accessing the network are not tracked and the searched information not stored in any form.
Localflow brings also attention back to the territory by creating a GLOCAL network: fast, highly automated respecting user data. The service will also remain without advertising and without the need to be supported by energies that are outside the Localflow network.


Website: localflow.com
Telegram Group: Telegram international group
Localflow first chatbot: Localflow MVP
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Thanks to your attention,
the Localflow team

Stiamo costruendo una piattaforma di chatbot AI decentralizzati e personalizzabili facilmente dagli utenti per la loro attività, servizio personale e per incentivare gli scambi locali in tutto il mondo.
Ora vi spiego brevemente ogni singola parola di quella che di primo acchito potrebbe essere una descrizione alquanto confusa e complessa...

Cos'è un chatbot?
Un chatbot è un programmino che permette di rispondere automaticamente alle domande o risposte degli utenti. Li si possono integrare in molte delle App di messaggistica (Telegram, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, ecc) o web app. Quindi non serve scaricare altre App! I nostri chatbot saranno già raggiungibili direttamente dalle App già scaricate dagli utenti. Stiamo costruendo una rete di chatbot che ogni utente può costruire per il proprio business o servizio, tutte facente parte di un'unica rete e ricercabili attraverso un chatbot principale: quello della "ricerca locale" di Localflow. Quest'ultimo quindi sarà in grado, in base alle richieste degli utenti, di cercare il giusto chatbot tra quelli fatti dagli utenti, e quindi il giusto servizio per la ricerca effettuata. In ogni chatbot gli utenti potranno facilmente inserire il loro listino prezzi, i loro contatti, agende smart, gateway di pagamento e migliaia di altre funzioni spiegate nel nostro sito http://localflow.com


Perchè AI?
Perchè per rispondere o comprendere le domande e le richieste degli utenti, i nostri chatbot hanno bisogno di fare una cosa chiamata NLP (Natural Language Processing) ovvero l'interpretazione del linguaggio naturale. Abbiamo realizzato infatti un chatbot che comprende quello che gli utenti gli chiedono attraverso un normale messaggio, senza l'utilizzo di pulsanti o complicate istruzioni. Un po' come parlare con un assistente virtuale.

Perchè rete decentralizzata?
Perchè pensiamo che lo sviluppo, se condiviso, sia più rapido ed efficace. Il nostro codice sorgente sarà open source e chiunque vorrà arricchire la nostra offerta sarà ricompensato dal sistema.

Come sarà ricompensato e chi altro lo sarà?
I data analyst e i programmatori verranno ricompensati in EWA token, una criptovaluta creata ad hoc per il nostro sistema. In realtà verranno anche ricompensati tutti i protagonisti delle economie locali: quindi chi sarà in grado di proporre servizi ed eventi di qualità all'interno della nostra rete.

Il nostro alpha test inoltre è già online! Creando eventi dal nostro bot di Telegram https://t.me/localflowbot potrai già ricevere degli EWA token. Abbiamo infatti destinato parte della distribuzione dei token (15%) in forma di Localdrop, token destinati ad essere distribuiti ai primi utenti e agli early adopter in modo da incentivare un utilizzo virtuoso della nostra rete. Crediamo infatti che per definire il nostro token come perfettamente idoneo a rispecchiare le transazioni degli scambi reali locali dobbiamo costruire uno sviluppo del business il più possibile armonioso e sostenibile. Stiamo dando in mano ai nostri utilizzatori iniziali il token per incentivare da subito un prezzo non soggetto a grande volatilità e il più possibile parlamentato ale vere economie nel territorio.

Perchè puntiamo alle economie locali?
Come lo facciamo in tutto il mondo? Localflow ha pensato ad un sistema diverso rispetto a quello proposto dai GAFA per fare promozione e marketing dei prodotti degli utenti. Ognuno sarà libero di creare un proprio chatbot per censire i propri prodotti e servizi e questo verrà inserito nella rete di chatbot di Localflow. La ricerca di servizi per ogni utente sarà limitata nella sua area di ricerca e non in altre (a meno che non chieda per qualche altra area). La ricerca non sarà basata sulle keyword e relative aste di compravendita atte a mettere in competizione le varie attività. La nostra ricerca sarà invece LOCALIZZATA e guidata dalle esigenze dell'utente. Andiamo ad approfondire la richiesta stimolando il chatbot a fare ulteriori domande. Vi faccio un esempio: se un utente chiede un posto per bere stasera un buon cocktail a Milano, il chatbot risponderà chiedendo altre informazioni come per esempio il budget massimo, se vuole un locale con musica dal vivo, se lo vuole vicino a lui, ecc. Reputiamo che una interfaccia conversazione sia il miglior modo per esaudire una richiesta e non un sistema di aste che permetta la compravendita di visibilità e la forzatura del relativo gioco che sta dietro a questa dinamica. Il fatto che sia local non impedisce che sia replicabile in tutto il mondo. Vogliamo infatti costruire infinte nicchie "GLOCAL" in tutto il mondo.

Questi dati di ricerca degli utenti come vengono trattati?
Sempre prendendo l'esempio di prima, delle parole "cocktail", "Milano" e "stasera" cosa ce ne facciamo? Questi criteri di ricerca verranno fatte passare in una rete chiamata Tangle, la DAG (una specie di blockchain) di IOTA. Attraverso una tecnologia di IOTA, chiamata MAM, noi facciamo passare tutte le informazioni degli utenti in un sistema criptato e leggibile solamente dai chatbot pertinenti con la richiesta. Alla fine, quando l'output viene presentato all'utente, i dati da lui inseriti vengono eliminati senza lasciarne traccia o costruire inutili bolle di filtraggio. L'utente infatti ogni volta dovrà definire cosa gli interessa e cosa sta cercando parlando con il chatbot.

Che problema risolviamo?
I servizi ora presenti, benché dando un grandissimo contributo ai servizi locali, implicitamente ne sfruttano le risorse (sia di dati che di percentuali di commissioni) impoverendo gradualmente le economie locali. Inoltre, quanti sono i commercianti o i proprietari di business che veramente sanno utilizzare i nuovi strumenti digitali per potenziare la propria offerta? In che modo questi servizi si rendono veramente utili alle attività reali? Lo fanno definendo i loro servizi come gratuiti, ma sappiamo che in realtà non lo sono. Le nostre informazioni e la nostra attenzione infatti sono le risorse più importante che abbiamo. Noi proponiamo un'infrastruttura che faccia rimanere i dati totalmente all'interno di queste nicchie locali, uno sviluppo che sia decentralizzato e incentivato dall'aiuto degli stessi utenti, un sistema che ricompensa i veri protagonisti delle economie locali e delle percentuali di commissione sui nostri servizi nettamente inferiori alla concorrenza. Possiamo offrire servizi di reservation, food delivery, stock provisioning a prezzi nettamente inferiore proprio in virtù della nostra architettura snella e condivisa. Incentiviamo inoltre lo sviluppo delle economie locali attraverso gli stessi abitanti di tali aree. Cosa significa tutto questo? Che attraverso il nostro EWA token verranno ricompensate le persone che stimoleranno le call to action a particolari servizi, che sapranno ricoprire il ruolo di opinion leader all'interno della comunità locale e che andranno ad ottimizzare il ROI della promozione locale impersonificando il ruolo di "micro-influencer". I business possono allocare delle risorse finanziarie da distribuire automaticamente agli utenti che stimolano grazie ai loro consigli e condivisioni altre persone a comprare servizi e prodotti. Il tutto in modo altamente automatizzato, totalmente criptato e in grado di ridurre a zero le distrazioni.

Che pagamenti integreremo nella nostra rete?
I chatbot e i servizi di Localflow saranno acquistabili tramite EWA token il quale, come detto prima, sarà anche il token che ricompenserà l'utilizzo virtuoso dei servizi di Localflow. Inoltre supporteremo pagamenti in IOTA e FIAT tramite un nostro wallet multi-valuta già realizzato e in fase di testing interno.

Perchè utilizziamo IOTA?
Perché le transazioni in IOTA sono istantanee e a 0% di fee. Inoltre tramite alcune tecnologie di IOTA come i flash channels possiamo usufruire di canali preparati ancora più veloci. Noi reputiamo che la tecnologia DAG sia l'unica adeguatamente scalabile e idonea al pagamento all'interno delle economie locali reali.

Per ulteriori informazioni visitate:
Website: localflow.com qui potrai già utilizzare il bot e la ricerca locale!
Gruppo Telegram internazionale: Gruppo Telegram International
Gruppo Telegram italiano: Gruppo Telegram italiano
Il primo bot di Locaflow: MVP di Localflow
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Grazie della vostra attenzione,
il team di Localflow

We are building a decentralized and easily customizable AI chatbot platform for users by their business, personal service, and fostering local exchanges worldwide.
Now I will briefly explain to you every single word of what at first might be a rather confusing and complex description ...

What is a chatbot?
A chatbot is a software that allows you to automatically answer questions or answers from users. You can integrate them in many of the messaging apps (Telegram, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, etc.) or web app. So you do not need to download other apps! Our chatbots will already be accessible directly from the Apps already downloaded by users. We are building a network of chatbots that every user can build for their business or service, all part of a single network and searchable through a main chatbot: that of Localflow's "local search". The latter will then be able, based on user requests, to look for the right chatbot among those made by users, and then the right service for the search carried out. In every chatbot users can easily enter their price list, their contacts, smart agendas, payment gateways and thousands of other functions explained on our site http://localflow.com


Why AI?
Because to answer or understand the questions and requests of users, our chatbots need to do something called NLP (Natural Language Processing). We have, in fact, created a chatbot that includes what users ask for it through a normal message, without using buttons or complicated instructions. A bit like talking to a virtual assistant.

Why decentralized network?
Because we think that development, if shared, is faster and more effective. Our source code will be open source and anyone who wants to enrich our offer will be rewarded by the system.

How will it be rewarded and who else will it be?
Data analysts and programmers will be rewarded in EWA token, a cryptocurrency created specifically for our system. In reality, all the protagonists of the local economies will also be rewarded: therefore, who will be able to offer quality services and events within our network.

Our alpha test is already online! By creating events from our Telegram bot https://t.me/localflowbot you can already receive EWA tokens. We have in fact allocated part of the distribution of tokens (15%) in the form of Localdrop, token intended to be distributed to the first users and early adopters in order to encourage a virtuous use of our network. We believe that in order to define our token as perfectly suitable to reflect the transactions of real local exchanges we must build a business development that is as harmonious and sustainable as possible. We are giving to our initial users the token to immediately incentivize a price not subject to great volatility and as much as possible parliamentary to real economies in the territory.

Why do we focus on local economies?
How do we do it all over the world? Localflow has thought of a different system than the one proposed by GAFA to promote and market user products. Everyone will be free to create their own chatbot to register their products and services and this will be included in the Localflow chatbot network. The search for services for each user will be limited in his search area and not in others (unless he asks for some other area). The research will not be based on the keywords and related sales auctions aimed at competing the various activities. Instead, our research will be LOCALIZED and guided by user needs. Let's go to deepen the request by stimulating the chatbot to ask further questions. I'll give you an example: if a user asks a place to drink a good cocktail in Milan tonight, the chatbot will answer asking for other information such as the maximum budget, if he wants a bar with live music, if he wants it near him, etc. . We believe that a conversation interface is the best way to fulfill a request and not an auction system that allows the sale of visibility and the forcing of the related game behind this dynamic. The fact that it is local does not prevent it being replicable all over the world. We want to build infact "GLOCAL" niches all over the world.

How do users search this data?
Always taking the example of before, the words "cocktail", "Milan" and "tonight"... what will their destiny be? These search criteria will be passed into a network called Tangle, the DAG o IOTA. Through an IOTA technology called MAM, we pass all user information into an encrypted systemand readable only by the chatbots relevant to the request. In the end, when the output is presented to the user, the data entered by him are eliminated without leaving a trace or constructing unnecessary filtering bubbles. In fact, the user will have to define what he is interested in and what he is looking for when talking to the chatbot.

What problem do we solve?
The services now present, although giving a huge contribution to local services, implicitly exploit the resources (both of data and percentages of fees) gradually impoverishing local economies. Also, how many merchants or business owners really know how to use the new digital tools to enhance their offer? How are these services really useful for real activities? They do this by defining their services as free, but we know that they are not. Our information and our attention are in fact the most important resources we have. We propose an infrastructure that makes data remain totally within these local niches, a development that is decentralized and incentivized by the help of the users themselves, a system that rewards the true protagonists of the local economies and the commission percentages on our services that are significantly lower than the competition. We can offer reservation, food delivery, stock provisioning services at much lower prices precisely because of our lean and shared architecture. We also encourage the development of local economies through the inhabitants of these areas.

What does all this mean?
That through our EWA token will be rewarded people who will stimulate the call to action to particular services, which will play the role of opinion leader within the local community and that will optimize the ROI of the local promotion by embodying the role of "micro -influencer". Businesses can allocate financial resources to be distributed automatically to users who stimulate other people to buy services and products thanks to their advice and sharing. All in a highly automated, totally encrypted and able to reduce the distractions to zero.

What kind of payments will we integrate in our network?
The chatbots and Localflow services will be purchased through EWA token which, as mentioned before, will also be the token that will reward the virtuous use of Localflow services. We will also support payments in IOTA and FIAT through our own multi-currency wallet already built and in the internal testing phase.

Why we use IOTA?
Because IOTA transactions are instantaneous and 0% fees. Moreover, through some IOTA technologies such as flash channels we can take advantage of even faster prepared channels. We believe that DAG technology is the only one that is adequately scalable and suitable for payment within real local economies. For further information visit:

Website: localflow.com
Telegram Group: Telegram international group
Localflow first chatbot: Localflow MVP
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Give us your feedbacks!
Thanks to your attention,
the Localflow team

CHATBOT DEVELOPER

You will join the team creating AI assistants for Telegram, Messenger and WeChat,
covering use-cases for local economy and IoT-smart cities.
Localflow is boosting the local economy of tomorrow, enhancing personal
microservices, peer-to-peer exchanges and automatized businesses with artificial
intelligence.

Responsibility
Take part in the bot framework design and development
Develop specific bots around nich use-cases
Design robust conversational interfaces
Integrate third party API services

Requirements
Strong knowledge of JavaScript NodeJS (ES5, ES6)
Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, scalable software design
Passion for writing clean code and investigate new ways of doing things
Ability to abstract and generalize solutions
Being self-starter, a great communicator and a solid technical contributor
Comfortable with Agile development

Plus
You experimented with Telegram and WeChat bot API
You contribute to open source
You worked with NLP services and RAN models
You know of Python and Ruby

Contract
Open positions are for: freelance, fixed-term or permanent. Compensation and benefits
will be discussed according to the experience level.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary, Contract

Salary: €1,300.00 to €3,000.00 /month


DEVOPS DEVELOPER

You will join the DevOps team that maintains our CI environment, orchestrate the
chatbot platform deployment and integrations. You will be interacting with back and and
full stack engineers.
Localflow is boosting the local economy of tomorrow, enhancing personal
microservices, peer-to-peer exchanges and automatized businesses with artificial
intelligence.

Responsibility
Continuously develop and improve our CI pipeline
Collaborate across teams to improve integration & release process
Integrate the platform infrastructure with third party cloud applications

Requirements
Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructures
Proficient in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ruby and/or Perl
Experience with Rancher, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
Experience with Unix utilities, configuration and administration
Experience with Microsoft Azure is preferred
Self-motivated and enjoying a steep learning curve
Strong debugging and problem solving skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills

Plus
Exposure to software processes, unit testing, code analysis and code coverage
Experience with REST APIs
Contract
Open positions are for: freelance, fixed-term or permanent. Compensation and benefits
will be discussed according to the experience level.

Job Types: Part-time, Temporary, Contract

Salary: €1,300.00 to €3,000.00 /month


FULL STACK DEVELOPER

You will join the web development team, building the platform for modular chatbots
creation and deployment.
You will extensively work on the entire application stack, interacting with IOTA and
Ethereum integration experts, the devops team, the bot builders and UX designers.
Localflow is boosting the local economy of tomorrow, enhancing personal
microservices, peer-to-peer exchanges and automatized businesses with artificial
intelligence.

Responsibility
Take part in the design of the platform for modular chatbot creation
Extend and maintain the token rewarding architecture
Integration of the token wallet, iota and fiat payments

Requirements
Deep knowledge in the entire web development process (design, development
and deployment) across the UI stack covering HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6)
frameworks like AngularJS/ReactJS

Strong knowledge of Ruby on Rails
Strong knowledge of Postgres, mongodb and redis
Solid foundation in data structures and scalable software design
Passion for writing clean code and investigate new patterns
Ability to abstract and generalize solutions
Comfortable with Agile development

Plus
You like team working and contributing to open source
You like to help, teach and mentor your colleagues
You experimented with Elastic Search
Contract
Open positions are for: freelance, fixed-term or permanent. Compensation and benefits
will be discussed according to the experience level.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary, Contract

Salary: €1,300.00 to €3,000.00 /month


For any positions, please send me your apply and CV to: andrea@localflow.com

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Non sarà indispensabile ma è fatto molto bene.

ecco il link
sito https://tokenstats.io
Chatbot di Telegram: https://t.me/tokenstats_bot

Guy we are building the firs decentralized AI chatbot platform in the tangle.
0% fees transactions, flash channels and chatbots easy to set up for any use cases.

Check our website http://localflow.com

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