The DCARPE™ Alliance is a global consortium of contributors to the Decentralized Continuous Audit & Reporting Protocol Ecosystem. Members of the Alliance seek to drive adoption of continuous audit and real time financial reporting using Auditchain. Membership is open to all enterprises in most global jurisdictions.

What are the benefits?

Membership in the DCARPE™ Alliance provides not only the benefit of being able to help prioritize and develop the direction of the Auditchain Network and Alliance, but also the opportunity to work closely with other thought leaders in the space, have advanced insights to tomorrow’s developments, and gain visibility as a leader. This includes:

• Participation at all general, annual and special meetings of the DCARPE™ Alliance; webcasts will tie the group together globally; regional meetings will bring participants together; international conferences will bind the group together.
• A voice in prioritizing the group’s efforts
• Speaking opportunities at DCARPE™ Alliance events
• Logo placement on the DCARPE™ Alliance website
• Enhanced access to expertise
• Members-only sessions on AI, analytics, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, continuous auditing, data level assurance, machine learning, smart contracts and other emerging topics, available live and on-demand.
• Opportunities to propose technical contributions to the Auditchain network
• The ability to propose and contribute to whitepapers
• Opportunities to represent DCARPE™ Alliance before analysts, journalists, regulators and other communities

Through participation, you become part of a larger group, whose point of view can be communicated to regulators, to standard setters, to service providers and others.

What are the requirements?

In the early days of the Alliance, we will form groups to bring consensus on the needs of each of the stakeholder communities and business supply chain groups represented. That will mean you will get out of it what you put into it. We will have peer discussions and then share the needs as a whole. We will also have educational sessions. This will include:

• Academic supply chain
• Analyst supply chain
• Auditor supply chain with internal and external sub-groups
• Enterprise supply chain
• ERP and software developer supply chain
• Financial reporting and investor relationships supply chain
• Technologist supply chain
• Regulator supply chain

Obligations beyond joining, identifying representatives to be on the mailing lists and calls, and agreeing to minimal intellectual property conditions are few. As the group matures, we will develop working groups to put the ideas into action. Groups of domain specialists will identify market needs; communicators will drive a marketing subcommittee; ambassadors will help drive Alliance meetings regionally.

What are the costs?

There is no cost for membership until our DCARPE launch Conference in 2019. Costs related to leadership, administration and communication will be borne by Auditchain and other sponsors for that period. Physical meeting costs will be cost recovery only, and may be borne by volunteers or sponsors.