Team updates
General
- Fund 8 Proposal status - voting phase
- Team members participated in the Ariob Incubator 3-day bootcamp
Research team
- Refined project focus
- Scholarship content: programming - tailored after market needs
- Collaborating with companies as a goal
- Income-sharing agreement as a potential future model
- Collaborator meetings
- Catalys
- Kenyatta University
- Our Program is very welcomed at the university and the fact that it uses the blockchain technology is positive. It’s an area Kenyatta university would really love to incorporate in the university.
- Advisor meetings
- New member
- Ananya Bhadauria
- International higher education professional having worked in conjunction with top tier Russell Group universities in the United Kingdom for recruitment, policy advisory and expanding market presence to help understand, enhance and provide assistance in the Indian subcontinent.
- Scholarship Programme Lead: Ananya will design and lead the programming course that the scholarship is designed for and collborate with different EdTech providers.
Tech team
- Plutus Pioneers - 2 developers on Week 8
- Atala PRISM Pioneers - 1 completed and 1 in progress
- Built a dummy smart-contract that allows withdrawals conditional on the presence of a certain NFT. Issued that NFT on the test-net. (One step away from being able to say we have a functioning smart-contract on the test-net)
- Progressed our understanding of how we may be able to allow a smart-contract to read verifiable credentials. In particular made contact with Tony Rose from IOHK and are in discussions with him about the components we will need to do so.
- Created a architecture drawing for our blockchain/DID interactions https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO5IRQ1Y=/
- New member
- Kajsa-Lotta Georgii Hellberg
- Has a strong background in data analytics and will be commencing a PhD in Copenhagen this fall.
- Product Research: Will be responsible for conducting product research and designing our next web product