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Woolf

Paul — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000

Woolf will be the first fully accredited, borderless, blockchain-powered university. Woolf will use blockchain technology to enforce regulatory compliance, eliminate or automate bureaucratic university processes, and manage the custodianship of sensitive financial and personal data. As the first university built entirely on a blockchain architecture, Woolf promises to disrupt the economics of higher education by providing new opportunities for both students and academics. Woolf is currently developing an accredited platform on which students and teachers can connect, anywhere in the world. Woolf focusses on Oxbridge-style tutorials that prioritise personal interactions between teachers and students. Although the Woolf software platform is online, it will support both in-person and distance teaching. Woolf has appeared in news outlets globally in ten languages, including Forbes, Nasdaq, The Times, CoinTelegraph, and Bitcoinnews.
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PiggyCoin

Paul — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000

Piggycoin is a new crypto currency! Our goal is to be the coin of youngsters and newcomers.
Remember when you were young and started learning about money with piggybanks? Every day you were so excited because you had a newcoin to put in you Piggybank! Piggycoin aims to be the equivalent in the crypto world.

A simple and friendly coin newcomers won’t be afraid to get. Oink!

Pigzbe

Paul — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000

Pigzbe is a London-based fintech company that enables micro-financing for families worldwide by giving parents and children access to products and services that accelerate financial literacy.

We are a team of award-winning designers, thinkers, and makers who have delivered products and services to millions of people for brands like Apple, Google, NASA, Primo, and Kano.

We know the world is changing and our mission is to give families the tools to help children become financially knowledgeable, confident, and independent.

For more information visit pigzbe.com and join us on Telegram t.me/pigzbeico

Learn about money through play

The Pigzbe App lets the whole family send money to your child’s Pigzbe from anywhere in the world, instantly and securely. For kids, the App is a playful interface for more advanced activities, like setting savings goals, learning about budgeting, sharing and spending.

Amply

Ronald — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000

Amply is a project originally launched by 9Needs in South Africa, which is now the Ixo-Foundation.

It is a digital identity blockchain application being used to replace an existing paper-based system to register children for a government funded pre-school subsidy in South Africa. Service providers use the mobile app to verify children’s attendance at classes and to capture other useful information. This will increase trust in the funding mechanism and make funding available to more children who need it. It will save administration time and costs..

The Cape Town organization, which is running a pilot with South African preschoolers, creates immutable digital identities to help children in Africa receive educational services and subsidies.

Project Amply strives to revolutionize early childhood development in Africa. Combining mobile and blockchain technology to increase impact and accountability of public services and generate real-time data.

OUR MISSION
Amply is a digital identity protocol that builds trust. We provide every child with their own self-sovereign digital identity based on the blockchain. This will enable children to receive benefits and services that they might have previously been excluded from.

In our pilot project, Amply is being used to replace an existing paper-based system to register children for a government funded pre-school subsidy in South Africa. Service providers use a mobile app to verify children’s attendance at classes and to capture other useful information. This will increase trust in the funding mechanism and make funding available to more children who need it. It will save administration time and costs. And it will provide really useful information about how and where services are being delivered.

Amply is unique in that it places each individual child at the centre of their relationships with Early Childhood Development services in a way that is ‘self-sovereign’ and directly beneficial to them. This means that a child’s digital identity and personal data are privately owned and controlled by the individual (with some help from their guardians). Over time, their life records become a rich source of data and value that can be used to receive services and insights that will become more predictive, precise, personalised, preventive, and participatory.

With consented access to personal data and identity assurance, entirely new classes of innovative applications can be developed for both local physical and distant virtual services. This is a big deal for growing a web of trust around children, to meet their developmental needs.

We use digital identities to
– gather real-time data and link it to sovereign identities
– increase efficiency and quality of public services for children
– create accountable blockchain based subsidies management platforms

Bankymoon – Usizo

Ronald — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000

Reading Time: < 1 minutes South Africa-based blockchain startup, partnered with Usizo to enable cryptocurrency monetary payments for bitcoin-compatible smart meters located in remote areas.

BitDegree

Paul — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000

BitDegree is one of the global leaders in the field of Blockchain in Education, recognized as one of the leading EdTech startups in Europe and in 2019 has won the World Summit Awards by the UN in the Education category, given to solutions that improve society. BitDegree has developed a global blockchain credentialing system that can be used by online & traditional education institutions. Moreover, the system allows for transfer of economic value tied to educational achievements. In response to the Prize, BitDegree has developed BitDegree Scholarships. It is an open-source autonomous global credentials and scholarships solution that learners, educational institutions / charities and donors can use today.

BitDegree Scholarships Showcase was launched on the BitDegree Platform (570k learners) in August 2019 and has already received significant interest. Learners can request micro-scholarships tied to courses on the BitDegree Platform and get it once they complete learning as proven by a blockchain certificate. Education donors can choose to sponsor individual learners with a micro-scholarship and know for sure that the learning has happened as the funds will leave the smart-contract only once the blockchain certificate was issued. This Showcase completely eliminates intermediaries from the education donations and allows for Peer-2-Peer donations with full transparency and traceability.

The autonomous nature of the solution enables micro-scholarships to become the catalyst for education donations and online learning, similarly to how micro-financing was to financial inclusion. Moreover, the Showcase is focusing on reskilling and up-skilling into digital careers, which is an enormous need and an opportunity globally, especially in the context of inclusion of the disadvantaged populations. The European labour-force also needs to transform itself to remain competitive in the Digital Age and it must do in a way that does no leave out the most vulnerable ones, such as refugees.

The Prize is encouraging BitDegree to innovate beyond what investors are comfortable with and, if won, will be used for further Scholarships solution development beyond the state-of-the-art and global scaling of it. Lastly, the Prize would give awareness and credibility to the solution for it to be adopted by the masses.