OYG TEAM IS AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

OYG began as a collaboration of community activist and data scientists to use online technology to engage people in our own community in preserving our communities, in particular those people who don’t believe their voices count, for instance, those who rent their homes and don’t pay attention to local government.

We deided to use a for profit business model when we saw that the software we had designed is needed everywhere in the world and we would need private investment to facilitate scaling a complex set of technologies globally.

Our Team

EXPLORING API UI INTERFACES

OYG initially worked with 8th Light on a project for Bogota, Colombia. They brought to OYG the experience of an international team of bright young software developers.

Working with 8th Light engineers, we tested our theories and virtual presence strategy.

ONBOARDING - VANTO GROUP

AI can help improve knowledge with vetted information but the ability to understand information is more difficult to teach. OYG depends on people of diverse backgrounds learning to hear and listen and understand. 

OYG starts with the common commitment in a community. We reached out to Vanto Group and ThinkVirtues for guidance for a hybrid workshop for onboarding a community when launching a platform in a new community.

– THEN WE LOOKED AT THE BIG PICTURE -

– CONSENSUS INSTEAD OF GUNS –

#1 Capability

We are billions of interdependent individuals living in 1000s of communities around the world. A scalable communication technology, can unify global acceptance of a common commitment, one community at a time.

#2 Local Solutions

Data science can help people and communities to create  solutions to persistent problems like homelessness, mass shootings and global warming. Technology can enhance personal capability and interdependence in communities.

#3 Good Government

Decentralized community networks can close the gap between government and people without overtly changing or challenging national or local laws, or social or economic and political hierarchies.

– INTERDEPENDENCE –

LOCAL SOLUTIONS FOR GLOBAL PROBLEMS

CONSENSUS GOING GLOBAL

Michael Winn

CEO

Michael Winn began his professional career making films used in public schools to teach elementary school children music, economics and physical science. He made  commercial media for City of Chicago, Lego and SCAG, and documentary films about Puerto Rico and Antonio Gaudi. He wired a large new building in LA with an Ethernet LAN and designed a fiber optic network for the Wilshire Boulevard corridor. In San Diego, he led  surveys of school children to inform city government about needs of children. He authoried Architectronics McGrawHill (1987) a book about digital technology for architects and co-led a year-long demonstration of high speed commercial offshore transportation for Caltrans. After retiring to focus on music in 2008, he returned to work a few years later to help reduce global warming

Norm previously developed backend architectures for web-scale consumer-facing apps and cloud-based scalable web services hosted on AWS and Azure with Kubernetes and Docker Containers. His projects include a patient-centric interoperability platform for health data retrieval, harmonization, visualization and data sharing, subscriber management systems supporting millions of users’ PII and credit card data for identity protection and exposed data matching, a data warehouse with ETL from multiple business units, and a social network for traveling nurses. 

Most recently, VP Research and Development at Seqster, Norm achieved success in several companies across multiple markets; including healthcare, consumer products, financial services and defense: Sony Electronics, Orincon, acquired by Lockheed Martin in 2003; CSID, acquired by Experian in 2016 and AMN Healthcare. He provided engineering support for the San Diego Police Department’s New Technologies Unit, and research labs at UCSD and CMU.

Norm Katz

CTO

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