{"id":8156,"date":"2021-10-28T11:55:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T11:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/?p=8156"},"modified":"2021-10-28T11:55:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T11:55:54","slug":"ethiopia-and-cardano-partnership-named-among-the-most-influential-projects-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-and-cardano-partnership-named-among-the-most-influential-projects-in-2021","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia and Cardano partnership named among the most influential projects in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press-Ethiopia<\/p>\n<p>Cardano has so far\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/hoskinson-discusses-cardanos-plans-for-africa\/\">targeted Africa<\/a>\u00a0to take advantage of its huge potential. Earlier this year, Cardano\u2019s Input-Output HK\u2019s identity management solution, Atala Prism announced a partnership with Ethiopia\u2019s Minister of Education to set up a blockchain-powered system. According to the announcement, the idea was to perfectly monitor the performance of students in schools. This includes the accurate tracking of students\u2019 grades, behavior, and attendance across all kindergartens, elementary, and secondary schools.\u00a0Along the line, this culminated into a national digital database called Atala Prism.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PMI, John O\u2019Connor, Input Output\u2019s Director of African Operations, the initiative could later include a Learning Management System.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the future, we may also integrate learning management systems, so students can use the system to figure out what homework they need to do\u2014and do it on the tablet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmi.org\/most-influential-projects-2021\/50-most-influential-projects-2021\/atala-prism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent development<\/a>, the project has been hailed by Project Management Institutes as one of the most influential projects in 2021, placing 14th position. The team has also made a decision to plan a proposal to the Ethiopian government to introduce a blockchain solution for a national ID system.<\/p>\n<h3>Cardano founder on an Africa tour<\/h3>\n<p>The team behind Cardano has sought not to leave the other African countries behind as they are lobbying various leaders to introduce similar solutions to them. As part of the efforts to expand the network base of Cardano in Africa, Charles Hoskinson, Cardano co-founder, has embarked on an African tour to meet the leaders of South Africa, Burundi, Kenya, and Zanzibar.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And before Burundi, we had a wonderful meeting about the Blue Economy with President Hussein Ali Mwinyi in Zanzibar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes we signed a great MOU today <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6scKzs33EH\">https:\/\/t.co\/6scKzs33EH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2wjavkxhZM\">pic.twitter.com\/2wjavkxhZM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IOHK_Charles\/status\/1453126702054445057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press-Ethiopia Cardano has so far\u00a0targeted Africa\u00a0to take advantage of its huge potential. Earlier this year, Cardano\u2019s Input-Output HK\u2019s identity management solution, Atala Prism announced a partnership with Ethiopia\u2019s Minister of Education to set up a blockchain-powered system. According to the announcement, the idea was to perfectly monitor the performance of students in schools. This includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[485,486,484,487],"class_list":["post-8156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-cardano","tag-crypto-currency","tag-ethiopia-and-cardano","tag-zanzibar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ethiopia and Cardano partnership named among the most influential projects in 2021 - Ethiopia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa-Press-Ethiopia Cardano has so far\u00a0targeted Africa\u00a0to take advantage of its huge potential. read more here.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-and-cardano-partnership-named-among-the-most-influential-projects-in-2021\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ethiopia and Cardano partnership named among the most influential projects in 2021\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press-Ethiopia Cardano has so far\u00a0targeted Africa\u00a0to take advantage of its huge potential. read more here.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-and-cardano-partnership-named-among-the-most-influential-projects-in-2021\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ethiopia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-28T11:55:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/sites\/50\/2021\/10\/DcRMZ3MW0AA2wvz.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-and-cardano-partnership-named-among-the-most-influential-projects-in-2021#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-and-cardano-partnership-named-among-the-most-influential-projects-in-2021\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ethiopia and Cardano partnership named among the most influential projects in 2021\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-28T11:55:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-and-cardano-partnership-named-among-the-most-influential-projects-in-2021\"},\"wordCount\":320,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-and-cardano-partnership-named-among-the-most-influential-projects-in-2021#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/sites\/50\/2021\/10\/DcRMZ3MW0AA2wvz.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Cardano\",\"Crypto Currency\",\"Ethiopia and Cardano\",\"Zanzibar\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-and-cardano-partnership-named-among-the-most-influential-projects-in-2021#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-and-cardano-partnership-named-among-the-most-influential-projects-in-2021\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-and-cardano-partnership-named-among-the-most-influential-projects-in-2021\",\"name\":\"Ethiopia and Cardano partnership named among the most influential projects in 2021 - 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