General Updates

Fundraising

• Secured two Access Scholarship donors ($500/each)
• Continued talks with YellowCard and other parties for Kenya sponsorship

Partnerships

• Continued discussions with IBSI impact evaluation partnership
• Initial talks with representatives from Gimbalabs to develop Cardano developer pipeline

New members

• Stanislaw Malinowski joining to streamline data collection processes
• Raymond Ezra, joining as a student intern. First project is to build a metadata preparation tool.
• Randy Mungai, joining as a student intern. First project is to build a metadata preparation tool.

Team updates

Programme

• A successful alumni meetup was held at Kenyatta University. Around 26 students to both discuss the formation of the DirectEd Kenya Alumni Network, work on startup ideas and get more inspiration.
• A second Ethiopian Intro Course was held along with an in-person exam that was organized at Addis Ababa university computer lab.

Marketing

• DirectEdDev had 14.9K impressions in November with engagement rate of 2.9%, 224 likes and 68 rewteets.
• SimonSallstrom, CEO, posted vlog videos posted from the DirectEd team’s Cardano Summit attendance in Dubai, amassing 37.8K in November, with total of 711 likes and 4.9% engagement rate!

Tech

• Designs for the new combined website is underway.