The document outlines Socio-Tech Academy's mission to promote social accountability in technology, emphasizing the need for responsible innovation to protect society from mass surveillance and data misuse. It proposes implementing frameworks to ensure harmony between society and technological advancements through community training and developing a socio-tech toolkit. The initiative aims to foster civic-minded technology leaders while ensuring privacy and preventing human rights abuses, ultimately creating a balanced regulatory model.

1. Copyright © 2017 Socio-Tech Academy LLC

2. We are on a mission to develop and disseminate solutions that
ensure social accountability for technological advances.
Our goal is to make innovators responsible for the changes they
produce on society.
Our Purpose (why)

3. Mass surveillance and big data industry, without any meaningful
checks and balances makes our society less safe and less free.
Traditional social control systems:
Is technology helping or hurting social trust, accountability and
harmony?
Social Problem
Religion Politics Media
Reference: Bruce Schenier

4. Society and Technology at Crossroads
Reference: Bruce Schenier
Tech Companies Society
Services
Personal data
No regulations /
No accountability
Social control and our privacy is being transferred to tech
companies. Moreover technology systems are getting more
complex, hence the ways to hack them proliferate. Society is not
yet fully aware about the implications of such threats.

5. Our Proposed Solution (what to do)
Tech Companies Society
Services
Data
Implement frameworks to ensure that society and technology
work together in harmony
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Socio-Tech
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6. Our Approach (how to do it)
STA
Knowledge
Base
Socio-Tech
Champions
Community
Organization
STA Toolkit
Training
Certifications
Certified
Product
Development
Socio-Tech
Harmony!
Socio-Tech
FrameworkAwareness

7. Split revenue from workshops, training and software development
contracts with STA Champions. (near term)
Consulting, licensing and auditing of Socio-Tech frameworks. (long
term)
How do we make $$?

8. • Creating an On-demand Workforce
• We train and foster civic minded technology leaders.
• Pioneering STA Frameworks
• Along with protecting personal privacy and preventing human rights abuse,
we have a holistic approach to ensure accountability and effective
regulation globally.
What Makes Us Innovators

9. Pioneering Socio-Tech - Six Month Milestones
*Further the state-of-
the-art in media,
infrastructure, banking
and defense sectors.
*Online STA Portal
with training module.
*Recruit and train 5
Socio-Tech
Champions globally.
*Socio-Tech
workshops in
Colorado Springs USA
and Hyderabad, India.
*Develop Toolkit for
communities
worldwide.
*Design metrics for
Socio-Tech
benchmarking.
Knowledge Base
Training
Community
Organization

10. Founding Team
Management
Karthik Krishna – CEO
Giuliano Meroi - COO
Advisory
Christopher Gorog – Company Guru
Akhil Krishna Komandur – Technology
Frank X. Gearhart – National Defense
Our Philosophy
“work hard, play hard and pray wholeheartedly!”