Team updates

General

• Donation portal & DirectEd Lions NFT Collection

  • Lion Hero sample
  • Our donation portal premiered together with our DirectEd Lions NFT Collection fundraising campaign
  • Newsletter subscribers were invited to the soft launch. Subscribe to the DirectEd monthly newsletter to participate in the next & future releases

  Read more about the collection:

  DirectEd Lions Collection (internal)

• Multisig

  • During our smart contract development, all proceeds from the DirectEd Lions fundraise for the Kagumo High Djed Scholars will go to a multi-sig controlled by known community members

    1. Darlington @lidonation

       One of the co-founders of Lido Nation, and one of the Cardano over Coffee hosts. He has the brains of an engineer and the heart of a humanitarian and has been using his skills and experience to help small businesses use a wide range of technologies

    2. Dr. Adam Rusch Teaches courses on Information Science and researches blockchain systems. He is also a Founding Core Contributor of ADAO community and Summon Platform working to create tools for decentralized governance and coordination on Cardano

    3. Nadim Karam is a consultant and strategic advisor in the blockchain space who has been part of the Cardano ecosystem since 2017. He also is co-founder of the Cardano MENA community, and a long-standing core contributor to Project Catalyst

• Whitepaper

  • You can now read all the details about our project in our whitepaper v1.0
  • DirectEd Whitepaper

• Vlog series

  • Simon's behind-the-scenes vlog series has covered a lot of the on-the-ground updates
  • Link: YouTube series

• Podcast/Twitter spaces guesting

  • Simon has been participating in several channels to talk more about DirectEd

  Some of the recordings:

  Cardano over Coffee Twitter Spaces

  Cardano Hotel Podcast

Operations team

• Kenya
  • Meeting with Dr. George Kosibembei, Head of Party YALI EA Region and later with Proff Maina, Director Chandaria Business, Innovation and Incubation Centre, Betty Githani, Deputy Chief of Party and Head of partnerships. Our meetings were centered on how best can we work with YALI and Kenyatta university respectively.
• Ethiopia
  • Recruiting tutors.
• Other collaborator meetings
  • PLP
  • The Room
  • ALG
  • Web 3 User Group

Tech team

• Smart contract
  • Check our repo to see the current state of the dApp and smart contract
  • DirectEd-Development-Foundation · GitHub

What have we done this year?

In the second half of 2022, we have made significant progress across all areas of operation. Here's a list of our main achievements:

• Memorandum of Understanding and initial feasibility study at Kagumo High, Kenya
• Memorandum of Understanding with Kotebe University of Education, Ethiopia
• COTI sponsorship: Kagumo-Djed Scholars 2023
• Collaborative project: Atala PRISM, Charli3, Proofspace, Book.io, Studentreader, IAMX.id and Emurgo Academy
• Advisory and partnership discussions: MLabs, Snapbrillia, Anvil,