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SideMeet welcomes socially engaged entrepreneurs, creatives, and individuals. LET'S MEET ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ We are also looking for: - Experts to join our board - VC's to invest in our program - Partnership with third-party platforms - Artistic UI / UX designer with affinity to the adult industry or LGBTQ+ community. DO YOU FANCY BECOMING A VOLUNTEER? Are you a technical expert or a passionate graphic designer? Would you like to put your linguistic talents to good use? Join our voluntary team. There is something for everybody! CURRENT COLLABORATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS In collaboration with a Belgian high-tech IT company and various social worker organisations, we want to bring a NO B(ia)S and human image of the very diverse sex worker industry. The below snippets provide an overview of some of our current collaborations and partnerships. VERIFIABLE CREDENTIALS We are building a platform where identity verification will play a significant role. In this regard, we are setting up a partnership with Professor David Chadwick from Verifiable Credentials (verifiablecredentials.info) and Crossword Cybersecurity (crosswordcybersecurity.com). Verifiable Credentials allows users to selectively disclose their personal details, for example, revealing only their age if this is all that a particular site requires. Age verification is just one of many applications Verifiable Credentials has to offer. Its unique solution provides privacy protection for users + is built on existing standard protocols and cryptography; it has a low TCO + is easy for admins to understand and install. https://verifiablecredentials.info/presentationshttps://verifiablecredentials.info/how-it-works Here is a recent article he wrote and which recently got published: https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/bankings-identity-problem/ HET NIEUWSHUIS MAIL: am K. Dauvillé, researcher at the television production house 'Het NieuwsHuis'. We are currently working on a new documentary series of 5 episodes on sex work in Belgium for 'TV Eén'. By following several sex workers in their daily lives, we want to give the sector a correct and honest face and thus break the taboo and clichés. A few months ago, sex worker Sigrid Schellen went public with her story. Together with 'VRT', we came up with the idea of making a series of documentaries about how things work in the adult sector. Without clichés, without well-trodden paths. We want to show that escorts, for example, are just people of flesh and blood like every other person. We strongly believe that this programme can influence public opinion, just as we did with a few other programmes. I, therefore, hope that you will consider a collaboration. ✅ RESEARCHERS MESSAGE: Hello Veronique, I got your phone number from Daan (Utsopi). I am P. Struyf, PhD researcher at the VUB. My doctoral research focuses on the police and sex workers (specifically outcall and incall escorts). I think it would be interesting if we could meet (digitally) and have a chat. Would you be open to that? I would love to hear about it! Greetings, Pia. --> Of course, we will gladly assist in any research that can advance the situation and understanding of the sex workers industry. We also advised Pia to contact Professor Weitzer, one of our board members, as a researcher who has been researching the industry for over 20 years. Sidemeet will launch first in BeNeLux and gradually advance through neighbouring countries in Western Europe.