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What is IELE and why does it matter?

We are entering the next phase of money when it becomes programmable. This in a nutshell is the promise of Smart Contracts, and has the potential to be a major revolution similar in impact to the invention of the printing press. But there are challenges to making Smart contracts reliable and secure so that you…

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Africa Special Summary

TLDR; of the Africa Special #CardanoAfrica 5m users for digital IDs, 30m in pipeline for Ethiopia New telco in Tanzania, 50% price, 2x speed @WorldMobileTeam 5 new African countries by 2021, 20 countries 2022 100m loanbook after Alonzo doing #RealFi Plus: SingularityNET partnership: building AI in Africa iceaddis: the pan-African technology incubator Cardano Foundation: working with…

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Ethiopia overhauls its education system with IOHK blockchain partnership

Big news, and we got this a bit early. From the CityAM article today: Global blockchain research and development company IOHK has announced a unique partnership with the government of Ethiopia. The link-up will implement a blockchain-based national student and teacher ID and attainment recording system to digitally verify grades, remotely monitor school performance and…

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Africa Special

This one has been a while in the making. We are likely to get some significant news this week when the Africa Special airs this Thursday 29th April 16:30UTC. You can register on the site for news and updates.

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IOHK on Sky News

IOHK Media Director Rod Alexander was recently on Sky News, and talked a little bit about block chains potential. Good to see IOHK getting some more coverage from the main stream media channels.