Impact Verification Platform
Sela is a digital tool that improves how capital enters and is deployed in Africa.
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About Sela
Sela is an impact verification platform that connects funders, project managers, and communities to bring transparency, measurement, and accountability to development projects and their stakeholders.
Sela creates a digital environment allowing funders with capital to ensure projects are successful. Sela provides real-time automated information reporting by collecting verifiable data from the field
REAL TIME AUDIT
Sela Portal
Sela uses blockchain and artificial intelligence to track all transactions and impact-driven measurements, fostering trust among project stakeholders.
TRUSTED NETWORK
Sela Token and Reputation Score
Sela operationalizes impact methodologies by combining AI-powered objective data collection and stakeholder participation towards direct, measurable effects on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
SECURE PAYMENTS
AI-Powered Sela Wallet
Sela identifies and publicly rewards the right leadership with the Sela Token. Sela also engages communities to track their performance, measure impact, and celebrate success using the Sela Wallet.
Impact Measurement of Progress
The Sela Platform provides the tools to scale impact measurement and progress against the UN's SDGs in the emerging world:
- Computer vision to analyze satellite and drone data
- Real-time reporting of capital and resource deployment
- Token incentivization of local stakeholders
Roadmap
Oct 2017
Human-centered design pilot
May 2018
Pilot test
March 2019
Begin Sustainability Int'l Niger Delta project
July 2019
Begin $350m E. Africa affordable housing project
April 2017
Company founded
March 2018
Sela platform MVP
Nov 2018
Beta release
June 2019
Utility token launch
Oct 2017
Human-centered design pilot
May 2018
Pilot test
March 2019
Begin Sustainability Int'l Niger Delta project
July 2019
Begin $350m E. Africa affordable housing project
April 2017
Company founded
March 2018
Sela platform MVP
Nov 2018
Beta release
June 2019
Utility token launch
Leadership
Chi Nnadi
CEO
Hassan Kane
CTO
Julie Bissinger
COO
Kayode Ezike
Director Of R&D
Andrew Dell
Former CEO, HSBC Africa
Henri Erimodafe
Executive Director, UBS Nigeria
Tami Kesselman
Former Senior Advisor, UNDP SDG Impact Fund
John Simpkins
Former General Counsel, USAID
Honor Huyette
Honor Huyette
Ralf Kubli
Principal, Lakeside Partners AG
Gustav Simonsson
Core Dev Ethereum, Orchid Labs
Brian Fox
Architect, GNU Bash, Orchid Labs
Vivina Berla
Investment Professional, Emeritus Governor LSE
Alex Kehaya
Business Development, Orchid Labs
Boma Josiah
Product Designer
Ibrahim Illiyasu
Backend Developer
David Abimbola
Mobile Developer
Latest Updates
Sela kickstarts computer vision R&D efforts
Over January and February 2019, the Sela team officially kickstarted its computer vision efforts by hosting two MIT Interns, Myra Ahmad’19 and Jeba Sania ‘20, at Hatch in Geneva. They both worked unde...
Read MoreSela Platform Development Progress As At January 2019
# **Progress Report** Here are video previews of the state of the development of our web and mobile platforms as at the month of January, 2019. **Web Platform Progress** **** <iframe width="100%"...
Read MoreFirst use case of Beta platform for localizing sites for upcoming cleanup
This week, the team got to onboard our first user for the Beta platform which was released earlier in December. The user was tasked with uploading geolocalized, timestamped data about the location of...
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