Using technology to improve our innovative business ideas, with focus on IoT and urban development. May 21, 2017 - Oasis500 Bootcamp session for Urban Development Startups

1. Mahmoud Jalajel | @mjalajel
Oasis500 Urban Technology Workshop
Building Blocks
for Technology
Innovation

2. Who Am Me? Working with:
● Jordan Open Source
Association (Technology NGO)
● Blue Kangaroo (e-commerce)
● Ligadata (big data for banks &
telcos)
● Mawdoo3.com (Arabic Content)
Working on:
● Analytics Platforms
● Search Engines
● Recommender Systems
● Fraud Detection
● Chatbots

3. Agenda
● Internet of Things
● Big Data
● Cloud Platforms
● Screenless interactions
● Crowdsourcing & Open Data

4. We’re more
aware
How many sensors did you own ten
years ago?
How many sensors do you own now?
How many sensors will you own in
ten years?

6. Rise of IoT
- You can’t improve what you can’t measure. And we can
measure a lot of things!
- We interact with technology in many ways in many places
- We want to automate everything as simply and easily as
possible
- Technology became cheap and disposable
- GPS-powered devices

7. Internet of Things
Giving things ability to connect to the internet, sense their
environment, send and receive information, and act
accordingly!
Things can be: a lamp, washing machine, heart-rate monitor,
car gps tracker, soil moist, water levels.

8. IoT Applications
- Wearables: Fitbit
- Home Automation: Phillips, Google, Apple...
- Health Care
- Urban Development: Smart Cities, Public Transport Apps
- Agriculture: nestrom

9. We’re more
insightful
What did your convenience store
know about you ten years ago?
What does your convenience store
know about you in now?
What will your convenience store
know about you in ten years?
How is it using this information?

11. Why Big Data?
● The more you know...
● Data Overload: Distinguish signal and noise
● Understand data and act upon it
● Discover hidden patterns and predict their future
occurrences

12. Big Data
A collective name for a set of tools to collect, analyze and
predict patterns. In the wider sense, it refers to business
intelligence, machine learning, and AI.
It is based on smart algorithms and applied statistics.

14. Big Data Applications
- Analytics platforms: ligadata
- Personalization engines for shopping, recruitement and
healthcare: SOUQ.com | Bayt.com
- Risk assessment and mitigation: Riskopy
- Marketing, Cybersecurity, fraud detection.
- Data Monetization
- Behavioral-driven profiling and advertising

15. We’re more
Capable
What’s the best computer you could
operate ten years ago? How many of
them?
What’s the best computer you can
operate now? How many of them?
What’s the best computer you can
operate in ten years? How many of
them?

17. Need for cloud computing
- Companies needed more computing power, but not
always
- Managing your own data center is too expensive
- A lot of technical skill and risk are involved (e.g. security)

18. Cloud Computing
A service offered by major IT companies where they take
care of managing infrastructure, security and data integrity
and rent you part of the service for a cheap price.
This enables businesses, especially startup, to access huge
processing powers with minimal cost.

20. Applications & Opportunities
● Use the cloud to minimize risk and cost
● Offering businesses conventional services on the cloud:
POSRocket
● Offering cloud middleware solutions

21. We’re more
Engaged
How did you interact with your
computer in the past?
How are you interacting with
technology now?
How will you interact with
technology in ten years?

22. ZERO-UI / SCREEN-LESS INTERACTIONS

23. Zero-UI Interactions
Zero UI removes the traditional graphic user interface (GUI)
from the equation and uses nature interactions of haptic
feedback, context aware, ambient, gestures and voice
recognition.
Technically, this involves sensor technologies, voice
recognition tools and machine learning.

24. But why...
- We move too fast, we’re just all over the place and we
can’t be disconnected!
- Because the world that has the word Nomophobia now
- We own too many devices and need synergy,
synchronization and access to information
- Because “Kids born today may never drive a car”

25. Productization examples
● Chatbots for automation and customer-care: Arabot
● Voice Personal Assistants: Mawdoo3
● Huge opportunity for automation

26. We’re more
Collaborative
How did you book a hotel in the
past?
Have you used Airbnb or Careem?
How will peer economy change our
lives in ten years?

28. The internet boosted the peer economy
● A lot of niche needs can’t be served by mass-market
products and services
● People use the internet to collaborate on many areas
● People use it to exchange products and service, and even
create their own currencies

30. ● Crowdlending: Liwwa
● Crowdfunding: Zoomaal
● C2C marketplaces: Etsy, Yadawii
● Food: Belforon
● Services: Khamsat, Awn
● Transportation: Careem
● Social: Boston citizens adopting fire hydrants
Examples

31. Open Data

32. Data value chain
● Raw data
● Rich data (merging multiple online and offline sources)
● Summarization (reports)
● Visualization (infographics)
● Data insights (trend analysis, seasonality)
● Access and search (maps, APIs, knowledge bases)
● Responsive data (Q&A engines)
● Proactive data (recommender systems, context-aware
systems)
● Predictions (risk management, early alerts)

33. Consider social enterprises
Social Entrepreneurship is a class of businesses aiming to
make profit while having a positive impact on society and
their surroundings.
“You can make money without doing evil”

34. Thank You!
Questions?
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Twitter: @mjalajel, @jo_osa
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