Here Comes AmazonVesta!ĪmazonVesta goes into Beta-testing in a matter of months, and within six to nine months, AmazonVesta will be on the market. Litter will not wait for our respective sources of funding to be “secure” or for our market to “mature” so that we can come to a shared understanding about our respective capacities, synergies, and compounded network effects. We know just how much harder it is to track a plastic bottle or a styrofoam cup after it has been chopped to bits by a lawnmower who thinks he’s speeding up the “natural decomposition” process whereas, in reality, those lawnmowers are churning out microplastic faster than any of us can count, individually and collectively. But from CleanApp’s perspective, we are all on the same side, we are all on the same bigger team.ĭespite our varied motivations, as frontline CleanAppers, we are united by something far greater than ourselves: We know the true cost of inaction. We may have slightly different angles of approach, jurisdictional bounds, and outlooks on what to do with all that data we’re gathering. Whether a part of Litterati, WorldCleanupDay, Littergram, OpenLitterMap, SwachhBharatApp, JustGrabBits, SeeClickFix, and so on, we’re all CleanAppers, all doing CleanApp activity. We all know the risks of failure, and yet we keep laboring away under an incentive far greater than some uncertain future payout, general fame, or network recognition. We all know that it’s not a matter of “if,” but a matter of “when” Google/Amazon/Apple release their respective CleanApp-type offerings, which can wipe out the numerous smaller teams that are working so hard - day and night - in this space. Nonetheless, the CleanTech/IoT nexus opens up some very lucrative markets, and everybody in the space understands the importance and wisdom of various levels of IP protection - in offensive and in defensive terms. It’s at the very heart of everything we’ve done and will continue to do at CleanApp. That underlying Wikian commitment to transparency, collaboration, crowdsourcing, citizen science is our DNA. We wanted streaming data to be available on an open-source, non-exclusive basis to as many responding parties as possible, and to as many researchers as possible. “To Open-Source or Not to Open-Source?” -CleanApp (Photo by Artem Sapegin)
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