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FINALIST

SOS

SOS Connect

Abstract

SOS Global Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that builds coordination infrastructure for disaster response. Our platform has operated since 2024 across five disaster responses, covering intake through multiple channels, identity and household resolution, partner supply and inventory, a matching engine that shows its reasoning, delivery tracking, and outcomes confirmed by the recipient rather than the provider. It was designed, built and funded entirely at private expense.

Our proposed solution addresses Working Group 2 of the existing DS-MRN initiative: the secure, interoperable digital infrastructure supporting operation of a Digital Stockpile. We make no proposal on clinical acceptability or accreditation, which belong to Working Group 1.

We propose two additions to the coordination engine we already operate. First, an emergency agreement layer that stores pre-negotiated industry-government agreements encrypted, evaluates their trigger conditions against declared events, and moves committed capacity into the matching pool without requiring an official to remember the agreement exists. Title VII of the Defense Production Act already authorizes voluntary agreements of this kind; what is missing is the operational layer to run them. Deactivation is treated the same way, so the network stands down when primary supply recovers. Second, demand capture and activation, because a shortage is a demand-side signal of requests rising while coverage falls, and that signal cannot be derived from a manufacturer registry.

We also propose to serve as the Technical Data Package store, with licence terms recorded as data, transmission gated on the recipient's executed data agreement, every transmission logged with recipient, version and authorizing person, and royalty accrual computed from that same record.

We do not propose to build the whole system. Physical custody and condition tracking belong to Global Distributed Tracking. Facility capability assessment belongs to Open Hardware Manager, built on the Open Know-Where and Open Know-How standards governed by the Internet of Production Alliance. We would integrate with both rather than duplicate them.

Our team is led by Jonathan Greenberg, founder, who built the platform following Hurricane Helene, and Victoria F. Jaqua, RT(R)(CT), RCIS, Director of Development at Open Source Medical Supplies, whose coordination of the COVID-19 open-source PPE response is cited in this challenge's resource materials. Three core developers maintain the platform. Advisors cover emergency management practice, intellectual property law, insurance and nonprofit governance.

We are early, and we would rather say so. The coordination engine described above exists and runs today. The agreement layer, the manufacturing-domain integrations and the security certifications named in our paper are proposed work, and we have marked them as such throughout.

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Jonathan Greenberg, Victoria Jaqua

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