ULB - The Missing Link

A Breakthrough Business Model

ULB CommunityLink is breakthrough business model which provides the opportunity to leverage off the integration of three existing open source software applications with over $25ml already invested by the UK government and private investors to deliver to an existing au Smart City client specification and create a solution which supports systemic change at scale and is exponentially more social, lean, integrated & circular.

CommunityLink provides the business model, organisational methodology, funding method and integrated project path start point for representative Regional, Industry, R & D , Charitable, Consumer & Government stakeholders to come together as an Innovative & Visionary Development consortium in the form of a commercial partnership to support a collective investment and grant fund raising to deliver to the smart city revolution underway and transition us to a smart and locally based sustainable society.

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The Business Case - Smart City Phase 1 - Systems re-engineering

The initial smart city application in Australia will enable the systems reengineering of $25bl p.a. of existing Council physical infrastructure expenditure to create client projected savings growing to $2-5bl p.a. nationally whilst creating a national digital data infrastructure network with $multi billion revenues to facilitate inter regional & industry data sharing and fund next generation social and economic functionality to support sustainable community ecologies.

The CommunityLink objective is to leverage the delivery of an existing smart city implementation to capture a working template. The CL system when completed will enable Council and local stakeholders to establish a locally based, owned and autonomously operated Community Development Centre (CDC) and no cost data hub infrastructure through the use of spare capacity.

This enables Councils to establish its internal IOT governance & multi vendor operating model with the CDC providing external governance. Councils can access specialist resources outside their current expertise and outsource functionality which is essential for data sharing with other autonomously operated regional & industry hubs within the national smart network. Efficiency dividend benefits are returned to the community via a unique revolving fund methodology. A true win win win!

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The Investment Case - Maximise profits through system efficiencies

The Investment case to support the Smart City Phase 1 business case is built around a collective investment methodology and elegantly simple but sophisticated Portfolio Asset Management approach which separates commercial risk from the enabling system governance infrastructure. This system is called the Social Capital Investment Trust (SCIT) and it meets the entity requirement in the recently released Australian Government, PM’s Department, Smart City grant guidelines.

The Social Capital Investment Trust methodology was designed to solve the problem of “how do we raise money to secure the necessary IP and funds to enable the establishment of CommunityLink as a decentralised autonomous network that cannot be privately owned or controlled”.

It creates an internal system “bank of funds” to fund transition from the old disconnected system to the new inter-operable system. We call this transition Data Transvestment. The Smart city Phase 1 case systems reengineering start point is a practical example. So a win win win for the community as a whole along with partners, investors and IP providers.

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