Leveraging Technology
Built for the Public Good.
Two tracks, run at once. We press government to adopt systems that can be audited by the people they govern, and because that takes years, we build the tools communities can use now.
Government Advocacy
Public institutions are not short on intent. They are short on infrastructure that lets a citizen check the work. These are the three changes we press for.
Digital Democracy & Verifiable Voice: A vote every four years is a poor instrument for governing a country continuously. We advocate for auditable participation tools (cryptographically secured, independently verifiable) that let citizens weigh in on legislation as it moves, not years after it passes.
AI-Enabled Governance: Most delay in government is procedural, not deliberate: forms that route through six desks because they always have. We advocate for AI-run process audits that find those loops and remove them, so a housing permit or a support payment moves at the speed the situation actually requires.
The Public Ledger: Every tax dollar tracked on a public ledger that cannot be quietly amended. Transparency announced is a promise. Transparency built into the accounting is a fact.
Policy change takes years. OneCivic is what gets built in the meantime: one platform, one account, carrying civic services, community, local commerce, mobility and food, so the money and the activity stay in the place that produced them. Built by VertAcc Solutions, live first in Guyana, and coming to Canada.
One platform to launch, connect, and grow local life
OneCivic
One city. One app.
One app, one account
Every module reachable from the same login a resident already trusts.
Local commerce, kept local
A neighbourhood stall taking payment and shopfront through the same platform.
The public space it funds
Staple Box revenue and civic tools back the parks and markets residents already use.
Civic Suite
The Counter, Reopened
Permits, licences, requests, appointments and status tracking on one path instead of four counters.
One trusted place. City services and public information without the runaround.
Status you can see. A request you can follow, not a form that disappears.
Community
The Local Square
A local layer where residents, organisations and public pages share what is actually happening nearby.
Reach without an algorithm. Local visibility that isn’t auctioned to the highest bidder.
Public pages. Institutions can reach the people they serve directly.
Marketplace
Discoverable Local Business
Local businesses become findable in one place, with products and offers built around city-level demand.
Found by neighbours. Relevance set by proximity, not by advertising spend.
Margins stay local. Fees calibrated so the shop keeps the value it earns.
Ride-hailing
Coordinated Mobility
Riders, drivers and fleet partners connected through a local mobility layer built for trusted movement.
Drivers keep the fare. No 30% skim between the work and the wage.
Carrier marketplace. Request, compare quotes, book a verified carrier.
Food
Local Ordering
Restaurants brought into local ordering with delivery and pickup that make discovery and repeat orders easy.
Kitchens keep their margin. Local dining that doesn’t lose a third of every order.
Built for repeat. Menus and discovery designed around the regulars.
Advertise
Attention, Kept Local
High-visibility local advertising, so businesses reach people when attention is already on the neighbourhood.
Local-first inventory. Neighbourhood shops aren’t drowned out by global brands.
Funds the Staple Box. A fixed share of revenue buys and distributes staples.
The Philanthropic Cycle
The platform is meant to pay its own way back into the neighbourhood. A fixed share of what the local ecosystem generates is recycled rather than extracted.
Local Business Ad Ecosystem: Advertising on OneCivic is reserved for local businesses. We provide a premium space for neighbourhood shops to reach their customers without being drowned out by global corporations.
Feeding Families: 100% of all profits made from local advertisements and the minimal social media commissions are used to purchase and distribute Staple Boxes.
Direct Sustenance: Each box carries the basics: flour, rice, oil, staples that store. It is distributed within the same neighbourhood that generated the revenue paying for it. The loop is deliberately short and deliberately local: the activity and the benefit stay in the same few streets.
Proven abroad, then brought home.
OneCivic launches first in Guyana, then comes home. The Canadian case is the one this institution has argued from the start: the systems people rely on every day are administered separately, and the seams are where people fall through.
One account, not eleven
A resident shouldn’t need a different login for a permit, a transit pass, a clinic appointment, and a municipal notice. One account is the least a modern state can offer.
Value that stays in the city
Every fare and order routed through a national platform exports a share of a local economy. Keeping that share in the neighbourhood is a policy choice, and this is what making it looks like.
Work without the extraction tax
Driving, delivering and trading locally should pay the person doing the work. Removing the commission is the difference between a gig and a wage.
A civic layer worth trusting
Public institutions get a direct line to residents that no algorithm sits between: the participation infrastructure our Democratic Renewal work argues for.
OneCivic is built and owned by VertAcc Solutions.