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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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Cardano and Africa

CH talks in this video about goals for Cardano and Africa, and the goals to increase blockchain adoption. He explores some of the projects that have been initiated. Nice 10 minute intro if you are new to Cardano and aren’t familiar with why it’s a bit different to the rest of the Crypto projects.

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Blockchain deployment in Africa

One of the goals from the earliest inception of Cardano has been to push power to the edge of the financial system and start to provide the same benefits and opportunities enjoyed in Western countries to the rest of the world. So we were really pleased to see a report this morning on Crypto News…