— Which advantages does Dataeum have over Datum, Datawallet, Essentia, Biotron, Opiria and PDATA etc.?

The activity of Dataeum has no competitors so far. While most of them are dealing with personal data or data produced by individuals, Dataeum focuses on physical data (stores, POI, road signs, ATMs etc.). Individuals are rewarded to collect it.

Currently, Dataeum is the only solution dedicated to this particular data market, enabling the collection of 100% of physical data in the world.

Moreover, Dataeum’s solution offers an instant way to reward its data collectors. We enable individuals to be rewarded for their instant actions which is not the case for the aforementioned services.

— Most data is generated by platforms used on a daily basis that are owned by large corporations. In what manner does Dataeum practically aim to compete with these platforms, besides using the Blockchain technology?

As we’ve mentioned, we aim to disrupt the existing paradigm, by enabling individuals to collect data and get rewarded for their actions. So by placing the humans at the center of the data generation, we will involve them in the value they create.

What will it change? Currently, large corporations own the data and are using users to generate it by tracking their actions and behaviors. However, this does not allow to gather all of the data and does not guarantee its accuracy. This is especially the case for physical data (stores, shops, ATM, road signs etc.)

By using crowdsourcing, Dataeum is the only solution that makes it possible to gather and verify 100% of any physical data.

That’s why we will change the current situation. First of all, because humans will be rewarded for the value they create. Secondly, because this solution will enable to generate a kind of data quality never reached before!

— I think your solution may be mostly interesting for the so-called third world countries, as in the western world most maps are already quite accurate. What markets will you target first after launch?

Indeed the demand is high in third world and developing countries for a simple reason: the data almost doesn’t exist! The solution does as well concern the western world too. Indeed, a lot of data remains uncollected or is rather highly inaccurate. It appears that at the worldwide scale, 70% of data is not displayed on any maps (30 to 40% in big cities), while at least 30% of the maps contain wrong information.

We’ve already tested our solution in London, Barcelona and Paris. In these cities, while comparing the data displayed on the maps with what we’ve collected, it appears that 28 to 40% of the physical stores were not even displayed. So yes, the solution concerns the world, for the collection and the accuracy of data.

— What languages will the project support?

If you mean the languages that the Dataeum app will support after the ICO, then you can find this information on the website dataeum.io in the Roadmap section. The “data expansion” subsection displays all the areas of the world that Dataeum is aiming to reach.