Team updates

General

• New website design
  • Launched our new website with a more fresh and minimalistic design and a new color theme. The link is the same as before, check it out below to have a look! DirectEd Development Foundation
• Twitter Spaces
  • Simon, our CEO, had an interesting talk with Bullish Dumpling on Twitter about what we do and the problems we are trying to solve. Link here

Research team

• Collaborator meetings
  • Springboard UIX team - website design
  • POA - stake pool operator
  • Snapbrillia - dApp design
  • Kotebe University - MoU discussion
  • SALT.dev - curriculum discussion
  • 180DC - non-profit consulting
  • The Room - ICT skill training
  • GeroWallet - NFT & wallet discussion
• New team members
  • Krittika Ray
    • Krittika is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Oxford. Her Interests lie in development, climate change, migration, labour, and risk-management. LinkedIn
  • Stephanie Bonds
    • Stephanie is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2022. Her research interests are at the intersection of development and labor economics, with a particular focus on issues of educational access in low-income settings. LinkedIn
• New advisor
  • Anne is CEO and co-founder ReDI School of Digital Integration, a vocational training program teaching programming and tech skills to refugees and marginalised people. She was awarded Best Female Social Entrepreneur of the year in Germany 2020 and Ashoka Fellow in 2021. LinkedIn

Tech team

• Smart Contract
  • Began coding the Smart Contract token-based MVP
• Collaborator meetings
  • Atala PRISM, Charli3 - initiated discussions on using an Oracle to enable identity-aware smart contracts.