Emerging Tech Open-Source Scoring System (ETOSS) | Cecilia & Justin | CHAOSScon EU 2020
Channel: CHAOSS
Date: 23/02/2020

Emerging Tech Open-Source Scoring System (ETOSS)

This is a framework used by the UNICEF Innovation Fund, to evaluate and track the strategic position and growth potential of the early stage startups in its portfolio. The focus is on startups building open source frontier tech: Blockchain, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality. It classifies the startups into four quadrants, based on two dimensions: the software developed (technology), and the financial sustainability of the project (business sustainability).

Essentially, each startup gets a final scoring for each of the two dimensions that helps position them in a matrix-kind of graph. When placed in the top right corner of the graph, the startup would have a high level of development in both dimensions. The final scoring is calculated through the weighted average of the score given to a series of key performance indicators depending on how strong they are. In the case of the ‘technology’ dimension, the calculation includes: GitHub Code Activity (Stars, forks, Commits, Contributors, Pull requests, Issues Tracking); Code Test Coverage; Open Source License Status; User Testing #; Prototype Readiness. In the case of the ‘business sustainability’ dimension, the calculation includes: Revenue, Expenses; Profit Margin; Number of Users and User Growth; Amount of funding received and number of third party funders (aside from them and UNICEF); Team sustainability (including tech and business skills as well as gender diversity).

Slides: https://chaoss.github.io/website/CHAOSScon/2020EU/slides/chaoss_fund.pdf

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Cecilia Chapiro
Investment Adviser & Blockchain Portfolio Manager - UNICEF
@ceciliachapiro

Cecilia is the investment adviser for the UNICEF Innovation Fund where she leads the sourcing and selection process of open source and frontier tech start-ups in developing and emerging countries. She also manages the blockchain portfolio of investments and developed the measurement model to track the progress of all companies in our portfolio (including extended reality, IoT, drones, blockchain, data science and AI).

Before UNICEF, she founded Yunus & Youth, supported by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus where she has helped grow social businesses in more than 40 countries. Cecilia has eight years of work experience in the for-profit sector (Johnson & Johnson), the non-profit sector (Junior Achievement, Ashoka, AIESEC, ‘Techo’), and the international field (Organization of American States, Grameen).

Originally from Argentina, Cecilia has lived and worked in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, England, Germany, Spain and USA. She holds a Licentiate in Business Administration from ‘Universidad de San Andres’ and a Master’s in Public Administration from NYU where was a founding member of the first NYU student led Impact Investment Fund and she attended as a Fulbright Scholar.


Justin W. Flory
Open Source Contributor
@jflory7

Justin W. Flory is a creative maker. He is best-known as an open source contributor based in the United States. Since 2018, Justin is a leading member of the LibreCorps program of the FOSS@MAGIC initiative at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was the first, full-time co-op placement to work exclusively on community issues for UNICEF Office of Innovation. This was work he did in concert with UNICEF personnel and Red Hat Open Innovations Lab on UNICEF’s MagicBox effort. Since then, Justin led workshops for UNICEF’s Innovation Fund to introduce over 20 international start-up teams to the Open Source way. Currently, he works as a consultant for open source projects and community-building. Using Justin’s initial efforts with MagicBox as a starting point, RIT’s current LibreCorps mentors build interactive resources for clients.

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