iTrade Wildlife - software to detect illegal wildlife sales

将开展的工作将探索iTrade软件成功商业化和制定后续提案所需的关键途径。这将通过使用业务顾问来解决以下领域并可能确定我们可能尚未确定的其他领域来实现。具体地说，1。与设立合伙人/股权和公司有关的法律和法规要求(例如税务问题)b产品的使用(例如警察使用自动化系统)服务提供/与客户的合同协议2.市场研究了解竞争对手的基础，例如市场策略和向客户提供服务了解客户基础，例如向客户提供/服务的水平和收费(组织的预算限制)3.产品研究和开发将iTrade扩展到其他地区的潜力b将服务/产品扩展到其他非法贸易领域的潜力4.商业状况为讨论提供信息，以达成PI、共同PI、学院、大学和其他与我们有合作关系的大学员工之间的愿景、公平和关系，建立和发展业务形态。这应该在什么时候发生，以什么形式发生，例如，咨询公司，社区利益公司，有限公司C产生商业计划5。产品/公司的品牌和商标影响摘要：在跨国贩运方面，非法野生动物贸易仅次于毒品、人口和假冒伪劣产品，估计价值190-265亿美元。联合国一致认识到，环境犯罪是跨国有组织犯罪的一种新兴形式，需要各国政府做出更大的回应。在肯特大学，我们开发了一种名为iTrade的软件，它可以90%的准确率自动识别非法交易的物品，每10分钟生成一次报告。通常情况下，这种形式的网络犯罪的识别需要执法人员简单地手动查看数千个网页。ITrade会自动浏览所有这些页面，将它们或多或少地视为非法，从而为警察节省了大量时间。例如，一名全日制硕士学生花了6周时间在eBay上搜索，发现在这段时间里出售了199件象牙。这可以在很短的时间内通过软件自动完成。我们设想的商业模式是在生物技术行业使用的，在生物技术行业，公司提供建立丰富的分子文库的服务，从而为研究人员节省了相当多的时间；在我们的案例中，我们将向用户提供来自调查来源的非法出售物品的丰富清单。因此，许可和利用将根据被许可人的交易平台计算成本。换句话说，我们保留了软件并提供了情报服务。虽然我们将从非法野生动物贸易开始，但这项服务很容易扩展到其他形式的非法网络贸易。我们已经在警察(国家野生动物犯罪小组)、英国边境部队和国际动物福利基金会建立了合作伙伴，因此也有客户基础，罗伯茨博士已经与他们合作了10多年。已经与荷兰警察部队就这项服务进行了进一步的讨论。就我们的合作伙伴和我们所知，这样的产品或服务并不存在。PI在商业化方面的经验有限，尽管应该指出的是，肯特大学有一个专门的商业参与部和技术转移办公室。因此，对于私募股权投资公司和联合私募股权投资公司来说，有许多关于商业化的“已知未知因素”，可能还有许多“未知因素”。探路者将使我们能够通过制定后续资金提案，解决与我们产品的法律、财务、商业和营销方面相关的问题，这对我们的产品成功商业化至关重要。

The work to be undertaken will explore the critical pathways needed for the successful commercialisation of the iTrade software and development of a Follow-On proposal. This will be achieved through the use of a business consultant to address the following areas and potentially identify others, which we may not have been identified. Specifically1. Legislation & regulatory requirement related toa setting up partners/equity & company eg tax implicationsb product's use eg use of automated systems by policec service provision/contractual agreements with clients2. Market Researcha Understanding competitor base eg marketing strategy & offer to customersb Understanding customer base eg levels of provision/service to client & charges (organisation's budget constraints)3. Product Research & Developmenta Potential for expansion of iTrade into other regionsb Potential for expansion of service/product into other areas of illegal trade4. Business Statusa Inform the discussion to agree vision, equity & relationship between the PI, co-PI, the School, University & other university employees with whom we have collaboration related to the productb Establish & progress shape of business. When this should occur and in what form eg consultancy, Community Interest Company, Limited Companyc Produce Business Plan5. Branding & trademarking of product/companyImpact Summary: The illegal wildlife trade is 4th only to narcotics, human and counterfeiting in terms of transnational trafficking, and estimated to be worth $19-26.5billion pa. The UN recognised by consensus that environmental crime as an emerging form of transnational organised crime requiring a greater response by governments. At the University of Kent, we have developed software, 'iTrade', that automatically identifies illegally traded items with 90% accuracy, generating reports every 10mins. Normally the identification of cybercrime of this form involves law enforcement officers simply going through thousands of web pages by hand. iTrade goes through all these pages automatically weighting them as more or less likely to be illegal, saving officers a significant amount of time. For example a fulltime MSc student spent 6 weeks searching eBay and found 199 items of elephant ivory sold in that time. This could be done automatically with the software in a fraction of the time.The business model we envisaged following is that used in the biotechnology industry where companies provide a service of building 'enriched' molecular libraries thereby saving researchers a considerable time; in our case we will provide users with 'enriched' lists of illegal items for sale from sources under investigation. The licensing and exploitation will therefore be costed on the basis of the licensees trading platform. In other words we retain the software and provide an intelligence service. While we will start with illegal wildlife trade, the service could be easily expanded into other forms of illegal cybertrade.We already have established partners, and therefore a customer base, in the Police (National Wildlife Crime Unit), UK Border Force and the International Fund for Animal Welfare with whom Dr Roberts has been working with for over 10 years. Further discussions have already taken place with the Dutch police force regarding the service. As far as our partners and we are aware such a product or service does not exist.The PI has limited experience of commercialisation, although it should be noted that the University of Kent has a dedicated business engagement department and Technology Transfer Office. For the PI and co-PI therefore there are a number of 'known unknowns' regarding commercialisation and probably many 'unknown unknowns.' The Pathfinder would allow us to address questions associated with legal, financial, business and marketing aspects of our product essential for its successful commercialisation, through the development of a Follow-on Funding proposal.