Team updates
General
Operations team
- MoU Kagumo High
- Moses, our Kenya lead, together with Lido Nation visited Kagumo high and signed a MoU with the principal and deputy principal. Students were also asked to fill in a questionnaire to help us develop the programme. In the latest national rankings, Kagumo high ranked 6th in the national university entry exams. We are hoping to launch the first pilot in January, right after the final year student’s exam results have been released
- MoU Kotebe University
- MOU with Kotebe University of Education has been finalised and is being signed next week
- New team member - Kidus
- Kidus is born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and has a Bsc in Computer Science. He is currently studying to become a learning experience designer at the LXD Academy in Ethiopia. Education is his passion and he enjoys learning, teaching and designing Learning experiences, as such he is passionate about providing quality education to students.
- Will be working on our programme curriculum design
- Collaborator meetings
- EBU
- Springboard
- LXD
- SIDA
- Malengo
Tech team
- Initiated partnership with Orcfax to create demo of non-DID based scholarship contract
- Created state-machine based contract for disbursing funds based on presentation of milestones
- New team member - Edmund
- Edmund Ebiyenrin is a Software Developer and a community builder. He received his B.S. in Computer Science in Federal University Makurdi, Nigeria. He is a former google developers’ student’s clubs lead and currently a team lead for Google developer groups in Benue. He has interest in Web development and a core focus on building the tech community with the knowledge he acquires in tech. Using tech as a tool for social liberation he focuses on building and raising young youths to become tech enthusiasts under GDG.
- Will be working as our website and dApp frontend developer
- Collaborator meetings
Next up
- November
- Simon our CEO will attend Cardano Summit 2022 main event in Lausanne, Switzerland
- Rohan, CTO will attend the London Cardano Summit 2022 hosted by Upstream
- Simon traveling to Nairobi, Kenya