OS University Monthly Report: February 2018
We are happy to announce that right at the beginning of February we welcomed a new advisor on the team, attended educational and tech events and received wide recognition.
Team
OS University is happy to welcome Aly Madhavji as our Senior Strategy Advisor!
Aly Madhavji is the Founder and Former CEO of Global DCX, an innovative technology company launching secure digital currency exchanges across the globe starting in India. He is also an avid investor in early stage companies, digital currencies, and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Want to know more about our team? Read here: www.os.university/team
Events
Sofia
We had the great opportunity to attend important local and international events such as HR Industry 2018, University Business Forum Sofia, Educational Symposium at the House of Commons and London School of Economics Science Festival.
HR Industry 2018 helped us reach out to recruiters and we got them familiar with the benefits of our project. Many were very impressed and left a lot of positive feedback about our mission to provide instant access to a global pool of talent with traceable credentials, enabling smarter recruitment.
Next we were present at the University Business Forum Sofia which is part of the European Commission initiative to support closer and better cooperation between higher education and business in the EU.
London
On Feb 28, a special Education Symposium was hosted by Mike Kane MP, Shadow Minister for Schools, for Manchester Metropolitan University at the House of Commons. The aim was to stimulate a national debate on teacher education policy with academics, legislators and stakeholders in the education sector.
Open Source University was present at the symposium, given the opportunity for the platform to provide distributed learning programs with credentials verified through Blockchain. Such programs would help the teachers’ professional education, upskilling and reskilling, given the flexibility they will provide, and the opportunities for professional development on a global scale.
Not only, but OS University’s project lead was a guest at the annual Science festival at the London School of Economics and Political Science, dedicated to the work of the former LSE Director William Beveridge.
LSE offered a series of academic discussions to shed light on the “Five Giants” identified in the Beveridge report of 1942, re-cast for the 21st century and for the global context. Originally described as Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness, today’s ‘social giants’ are framed as the challenges of poverty; health and social care; education and skills; housing and urbanisation; and the future of work.
Marketing
Community
We’ve opened a Telegram Bounty on February which finished successfully and our community has significantly grown. To top it all, our Telegram Airdrop will be announced in a few days so stay tuned for updates!
Listings
Apart from finally being listed on ICO Holder, ICO Bench confirmed that our project is going to have a great impact on education, by giving us an impressive rating of 4.9! We are more than happy to receive almost 30 reviews from many experts worldwide worth reading.
Media
OS University received not only a high rating from ICO Bench but also a positive review from Crypto CatchUp! They did a very comprehensive explanation of what our project is like and what benefits it offers. Watch the video below.
Our Project Lead, Hristian Daskalov, shared an article which is worth reading — “What is the benefit of blockchain for universities”!
Awards
OS University project was nominated among ‘’The best IT projects of 2017" by the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies (BAIT). The award ceremony took place on Feb. 27 and received amazing recognition and also it was the first tech nomination for the project.
What’s next?
Stay tuned for many updates from our side. In March alone we are going to attend more events — some of them are betabreakfast, Computational Law + Blockchain Festival and Cloud and blockchain tech forum in Sofia and others.
Last but not least Out CTO and main blockchain developer will inform the community with the latest updates about the Alpha release of the Core and the website. Stay tuned!
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