Ethiopia is pursuing an offensive digitization strategy. Now the state’s education system is to receive digital ID cards. Ethiopia relies on the Cardano crypto platform.
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson had already indicated it, now it is reality: The Ethiopian government and Hoskinson’s company IOHK have announced their cooperation. The aim of the collaboration is a blockchain-based ID card for the country’s students and teachers. The Atala PRISM identity solution based on Cardano is used here.
Cardano ID: More than just notes
The background to the initiative is “Digital Ethiopia 2025”, Ethiopia’s strategy for the digital transformation of the country. Among other things, this provides for a national ID system based on blockchain. John O’Connor, responsible for Africa business at IOHK, explained in a blog post about cooperation:
The government recently issued a national identity standard and the Atala PRISM Blockchain ID will be the first system to issue IDs based on this standard.
Far more than just school performance should be chiseled into the blockchain.
The use of Cardano enables precise tracking of individual grades, behavior, attendance and level of education in all kindergartens, elementary schools and secondary schools.
Teachers should also be able to use the system for administrative purposes such as managing timetables or transfers. In total, it concerns five million students, 750,000 teachers and 3,500 schools. In the future, the blockchain ID should also be extended to the academic sector.
ADA on course for recovery
The Cardano price (ADA) only hit its all-time high of $ 1.55 on April 14. The following two weeks were marked by profit-taking, which on April 23 even pushed ADA back below the US dollar mark for a short time.
The bulls have been setting the tone again since April 26, with ADA trading at $ 1.37 at the time of going to press. With a daily increase of 6.9 percent, ADA is one of today’s top performers among the coins with the largest market capitalization, along with Binance Coin.