Live Learn Innovate Foundation

Enable members to securely aggregate their personal data from many sources to a not-for-profit cloud repository to farm for insights (like a digital personal file cabinet).
Offer opt-in access to member data for profit companies that will pay members to receive relevant advertisements or solicitations.
Offer members an option to donate access to their data for well meaning profit and not-for-profit organizations to provide personal and community insights.
Participate in a sustainable not for profit data marketplace of members and private companies rooted in individual privacy and control that benefits members and businesses alike.

The initial Minimum Viable Product MVP is to build a scalable secure multi-tenant capable logging platform that will collect time, location, environment, activity, sleep, heart, and weight data from other clouds in addition to a new smart speaker voice interface. The underlying technology will be like that used in the security industry (Security Information and Event Management SIEM) to monitor and baseline network, security, and application infrastructure to better operate and troubleshoot outages, attacks, and performance issues. The leading open source software product is Elasticsearch supported by Logstash for collection and Kubana analytics and visualizations. The user experience will be to log into a dashboard at www.lifelogger.org (or others like www.wikiliving.org) and connect to the sources of data in existing clouds like FitBit, Google, Amazon, etc. where most of the data will be acquired by API. The voice interface skill will be loaded where an LLIF member will be able to invocate the skill ‘life log’ (or similar) various events like ailments (migraine, headache, diarrhea, pain, etc.) and ingestion (basic food groups, drinks, supplements, medicines). For example, invoke the voice assistant “Alexa”, invoke the skill “life log”, and then provide the event name like diarrhea, headache, stomach, migraine, or an action “Alexa, life log I ate turkey, ham, cheddar, almonds, and edamame.” Each log event will include base environment data based on location.

From this MVP, members will be able to get short and long-term trends, make queries, perform searches, run single variable correlations, and get manually set threshold alerts. A good example of a single variable correlation is whether melatonin provides better sleep. If I took melatonin 30 times last year, I’d be able to query sleep data for nights that I echo life logged “I took a melatonin” to compare REM and deep sleep for nights with and without melatonin. We would essentially give members the ability to run their own A/B test on themselves. In later phases, insights like this could be made against big data meaning across many members. Is melatonin broadly effective across large populations?

Two of our board members have started and sold companies in the IT SIEM industry and the healthcare data industry. Our estimates are that a reasonable multi-tenant platform can be built for a few million dollars with the long term platform evolving over a longer period of time using B2B and open source development. As founder, I’d put aside some of the required funding. However, in order to maintain public charity status, 30% of receipts must come from donors that contribute no more than 2% of total receipts each within 60 months of 501c3 approval which for LLIF was 12/2018.

Team

I, Jim French, created Live Learn Innovate Foundation in 2018 with some initial seed money with the intention to retire and work it full time when it worked. From 1997 to 2017, I was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco and then moved to become an Architect at Zscaler. Zscaler engineered and operates a multi-tenant security as a service cloud with tens of millions of enterprise users which has given me some understanding of what it takes to architect, engineer, and operate such a cloud. My vision is grounded in extrapolating technologies commonly used in enterprise IT to individuals and communities. Dave Frampton co-founded as we spent countless hours discussing the initial concepts. Dave Frampton ran product lines within all three of Cisco’s primary businesses and then left to found start up FactorChain to fill an industry security analytics gap. At FactorChain, his team built the first cloud native multi-tenant security analytics platform which led to FactorChain being acquired by Sumo Logic where he is currently the VP of Security Solutions. We also have Brian Gilbert, who is also ex-Cisco, has a proven track record of success in building successful teams in Fortune 10 technology leaders like JPMC, Cisco and GSK and an entrepreneurial founder of both for profit and non-profit healthcare startups. Lastly, we have a part time software developer and architect in Paul Lesiak who is a Cisco Principal Engineer working on an application networking, security, and analytics platform. Our intention is to hire a couple of more full time engineers and leverage outsourcing when needed.
https://llif.org/team/

We wrote the requirements and business plan and partly completed demo product to take to business to donate/invest. We've hired engineering firm and got other developers donating time. Q4'2020 we enter fundraising. We build production in 2021.