Entry Date:
May 31, 2011

Provenance

Principal Investigator Abel Sanchez


Through the past year I have been thinking through a “transparent food” idea leveraging the web, crowd sourcing, and mobile devices.

The core of the idea can be grouped into 3 tiers:
(*) Tier 1: the local farms, farmers markets, honey producers, cheese makers, etc
(*) Tier 2: the relationships between producers and consumers
(*) Tier 3: the visibility of local inventory, its movement, and logistics

In the internet of things calling card style, “The What, When, Where, and Why.”

Having worked on RFID and supply chain systems and I am very excited about the possibility of building an equivalent infrastructure based on phone platforms and light weight web services, in a decentralized infrastructure. What’s more, the same type of approach has great parallels with the challenges of the developing world.