History
Early years:
Dinis Guarda
founded ztudium Limited in 2011, a group focused on building
software, research products, and service solutions using
blockchain, AI, and digital transformation DNA for businesses
and governments.
openbusinesscouncil
The global open business platform, openbusinesscouncil.org was
created in 2013. This is a vertical under Ztudium Limited that
serves as a global business directory, resource, marketplace,
and digital blockchain AI certification for businesses,
organisations, and professionals.
openbusinesscouncil is now a global digital certification
directory and marketplace working with business networks,
governments, tech ecosystems, leading universities, and
organisations.
openbusinesscouncil allows its users to grow their own
businesses, find trusted clients and partners, digitally
transform their companies and finance international trade. With
its digital transformation platform, SMEs can improve their
productivity, lower operational costs, access business
intelligence services, and generate economies of scale and of
scope.
It provides a business and trade directory, digital identity
certification, and a marketplace for more than 400 million
businesses and SMEs around the world. Its directory, resources,
and marketplace help businesses connect with each other to
enhance their respective digital transformations and improve
their outreach.
The platform has global collaborations and partnerships with
University of Oxford, The EU AI Alliance,, Department for
International Trade, Etrade Alliance, United Nations Global
Impact, Billion Strong, PHD Chamber of Commerce of India, USAID,
Technology and Management Centre for Development, to name a
few.
The platform has a significant digital footprint, having access
to global audience, including more than 10 million views on
YouTube Podcast.
The platform was spun out into a separate company Open Business
Platform Limited (Company number 12420445) in January 2020 in
the UK.
citiesabc
The Founders of Ztudium Group also created citiesabc, a platform
to Empower cities and their stakeholders with sustainable
bridges and corridors between physical and virtual realms. To
this day, the platform offers a wiki database of all cities and
regions, the latest indexes, like the ESG Global Index, digital
twins of landmarks and regions, metaverse integrated
marketplace, and digital profiles of personalities and key
individuals.
In 2022, Citiesabc introduced its latest feature,
smartcitiesabc, a digital transformation platform to guide and
index cities and create the best policies and technologies for
smart cities. It creates new solutions and empowers smart(er)
cities 360. The platform launched its “Blueprint For Smart
Cities A Social Contract”, a research report by Prof Kiran
Fernandes with Atunu Chaudari and Ashish Kakar produced by the
University of Durhan and citiesabc.com indexdna in collaboration
with openbusinesscouncil.org in March of 2022.
The citiesabc platform was spun out into a separate company
Techabc Limited (Company number 12552774) in April 2020 in the
UK.
fashionabc
fashionabc: Launched in 2019, fashionabc is a social impact
blockchain fashion directory platform that focuses on solving
the biggest challenges of the $3 trillion industry of fashion
(representing 2 % of the world’s Gross Domestic Product). The
platform introduces the 4IR - Fourth Industrial revolution in
fashion through: Creating inclusive digital transformation tools
for fashion professionals and businesses. Building a digital
profile and IP solutions for fashion businesses. Tackling issues
such as provenance and counterfeiting in the supply chain.
Building a meritocratic fashion inclusive certified circular
economic system.
Meta Directory marketplace for fashion textile businesses SMEs
fashionabc offers a global meta Web3 AR VR wiki directory
marketplace for businesses worldwide.
fashionabc highlights a powerful collection of business
ecosystem segments fashionabc provides a wide range of services
and solutions to support the lagging issues challenging most
global business, SMEs and start-ups.
fashionabc is a Leading Global Digital Fashion Business created
by a team of global thought and business leaders with more than
20 years experience of working with governments, business
networks, tech ecosystems and universities. Fashionabc offers a
retail metaverse submission, digital blockchain AI certificate
for businesses and professionals.
fashionabc lists and connects businesses seeking to have better
profiles and augment their outreach. The platform can connect
them with other companies, professionals, services and solutions
from companies that have experience and qualifications in
specific industries.
Corporate Digital Identity, Registration, Licences to operate
and standards.
The platform was spun out into the company Fashiondna Limited in
2022 owned by ztudium Limited in the UK.
blocksdna
In 2013, ztudium introduced a network of technology-based
solutions: FinTech solution blocksdna, iDNA a SAAS platform to
create indexation of ID, financial services, marketplaces on DLT
with AI, the media and publishing division, and lifestyle and
healthcare platform as a service software lifesdna.
Blocksdna indexdna is a single solution for all types of social
and enterprise data. It is a strong NoSQL Data Lake engine that
allows organisations and their customers to get the most out of
digital transformation projects.
iDNA can be described as a blockchain-based mobile app and a
white-label technology that brings together P2P Messaging,
support for crypto and FIAT wallet, payments, digital ID, a
reward engine and a marketplace.
Its main purpose is to facilitate simple and fast communication
between companies and their clients, making them as smooth and
hassle-free as they can be. To do so, it features a state-of-art
back-end platform with the latest AI technology.
Its aim is to “help businesses and organisations to connect with
their users where they are.” Its integrated technology allows
for users to interact with each other directly through messaging
amidst being able to send/receive money from their customised
wallets. As a special feature, blocksdna’s wallet will allow
users to pay using both Fita and cryptocurrency securely. An
open marketplace is already integrated within the app, taking
mobile e-commerce to new standards.
The blockchain platform on which iDNA is based plays an
important role in the app. Blockchain is well known lately for
its safety and decentralised characteristics. Companies can
benefit greatly from this as the back-end technology is ready to
use while its front-end can easily be modified depending on
their needs.
Media publishing divisions
The digital media and publishing division was further segregated
into a network of specialisations:
intelligenthq: It
is a digital innovation business network that provides
intelligence, and education for professionals, businesses,
startups and universities. The platform offers business
insights, tech, 4IR, digital transformation and growth,
executive education, and change through social media for
businesses - both startups and corporations.
Hedgethink: It is a
digital meeting place for fund managers and investors all over
the world. Its focus is firmly on thought leadership,
technology, and where the industry is headed, encouraging
transparency, and fostering dialogue between hedge funds and
accredited investors. HedgeThink is a primary destination for
financial innovation, fintech, alternative investors, ESG and
hedge funds.
Tradersdna: A leading
digital and social media platform for traders and investors,
tradersdna offers premiere resources for trading and investing
education, digital resources for personal finance, market
analysis, and free trading guides.
Metaverseabc and
MStudios
Metaverseabc offers cutting-edge marketplace NFTs & Metaverse,
minted on the top global marketplaces using smart contracts. It
empowers citizens, organizations, businesses and cities by
providing a platform for new and advanced digital solutions for
artists, producers (music, film, and writers), designers,
entrepreneurs, collectors, gamers, athletes, and
personalities.
The metaverseabc platform provides them with an NFT & Metaverse,
“out of the box” digital certification (identity and
authenticity) to support:
Creators, artists, designers, gamers, cities, and institutions
Music artists and labels
Films creatives and production independent filmmakers
Sports, wellbeing/wellness teachers, coaches professionals
Business, property, digital assets certifications, and
collectives
Crowdfund solutions
Payment solutions (Fiat and Crypto).
The key to the metaverseabc's distinctiveness is that it is
primarily focuses on cities and their entrepreneurial citizens
and creative residents, rather than just being another
speculative trading platform.
Integrating emerging and transforming digital technology,
ztudium Limited announced its meta-city augmented reality
virtual marketplace Metaverse, FreedomX, in 2022.
The Group also announced its cutting-edge Digital Twins, AR, VR,
Mixed Reality tech solutions: Metaverse Studios and Metaverseabc
in 2022. Metaverseabc provides AR, VR, and visual metaverse
programming interfaces for architecture and iconic buildings,
with the capacity to scan and reproduce the exteriors and
interiors of cities, and districts. It also offers 3D solutions
for fashion and retail brands and proprietary-tailored avatar
solutions. Metaverse Studios offers a building block of
metaverse programming technology with hyper-realistic avatars'
facial expressions.
Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast Series - Powered by citiesabc and
openbusinesscouncil
Dinis Guarda Youtube Podcast Series
- Powered by citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil is a
fast-growing, thought leadership channel focused on profiling
leading global CEOs, authors, technologists, academics. Dinis
Guarda is author of books such as "4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech
Reinventing a Nation" “How Businesses and Governments can
Prosper with Fintech, Blockchain and AI?”, “Blockchain AI Crypto
Economics”. He has been listed in the global fintech,
blockchain, AI, and social media industry top influencer
rankings: Top People In Blockchain by Cointelegraph 2019, The
Artificial Intelligence Power 100.
