Name of Project
Edubuk
Proposal overview
Edubuk is an creating a Full-Stack Customized & Decentralized Skilling Ecosystem which is Globally Scalable using AI & Blockchain. The Full Stack skilling ecosystem has 5 steps: 1.) Passion Discovery & Career Mapping using AI driven assessments; 2.) Customized Learning Plans (as per chosen career goals); 3.) Online Skilling Courses (in Extra-curriculars and Emerging Technologies Skilling); 4.) Student’s & Learner’s Blockchain profile (Digital & Verifiable Skill-Profile including hard and soft skills records on the blockchain); 5.) AI driven Job assistance as per Blockchain based profile of the learner.
Edubuk’s ecosystem is globally award winning by MIT University, Harvard University, IIT, IIM, NASSCOM, TiE Delhi, TiE Mumbai and other reputed organizations. Founders are Gold Medalists, Toppers with rich experience in Education field and are passionate about building decentralized Edtech which is globally scalable.
More Details about the Project:
The plan is to have a fully decentralized skilling verification system on the public blockchain network to verify the skills, Leaner’s Intelligence Type, Interest Type, Credits, Grades, Subjects, Courses, Certificates. The Linked front end of the website (hosted on Moralis) with Smart Contracts deployed on Harmony testnet will be linked here (MVP of skill verification)(full front end with great UI/UX is being built, shall be completed: by 2Q 2022).
Smart Contracts created for Skill Verification by Institutes for Students, by Companies for Employees, by Experts/Teachers for Learners (on our video first online skilling platform) has been Deployed Successfully on the Harmony Testnet (tx hash and other details of the contract deployment presented below) .
Current Traction and Plan Going Forward:
1.) At present we have 15,900 users on our Web-based platform their age group is from 11 years to 26 years (from class 6th to college level students). These are the students who have taken our globally award winning MIIT Screening (Multiple Intelligence & Interest Test: 2 part: 100 + 30 questions to determine their dominant intelligence types, interest types and top 3 most relevant career paths for them). They have also taken our Customized Skilling Plans in 3 career paths, which comes as a complete package. This is till today. And all the current profiles of these students (their top 3 intelligence types, their top 3 interest types, their 3 career paths, their 3 customized learning plans, their certificates they got via online learning, their offline certificates will all be migrated to the blockchain based Edubuk profile, so essentially these existing users will have their current profiles, moved to the chain as well).
2.) in last 2 months, we have inked 4 B2B Partnerships and are in advanced talks with 2 more Education/Ed-tech corporates in 3 countries: India, UAE and Egypt as mentioned below:
- India: Zee Learn (3 year deal): where we will get access to 25,000+ students (Class 6th to Class 12th) across 120 Schools in India which come under Zee Learn’s corporate ambit. This starts with new academic session in Feb 2022.
- India: Classbazaar (3 year deal): and [Class Bazaar] where we will have access to all students 2,600+ that come each month on Classbazaar’s platform to take various online courses (they have used our API to integrate our MIIT screening for the students on their platform). Already started since past 7 months, got 900+ students for 3 years consecutive sign-up. Revenue has started coming in.
- India: Parentingplus (3 year deal): [Parenting Plus] where we will have access to 1,200+ students that come each month to take some courses and counselling services via this platform: (they have also used our API to integrate our MIIT screening for the students on their platform). Already started since past 1.5 years, conducted 100+ tests in Dubai UAE already (AED payments received).
- UAE: Panworld LLC (3 year contract): which is taking our product to the MENA region including UAE and Egypt (with Ministry of Education, MoE, Egypt) where they have 20 million + students who are already enrolled into Panworld LLC’s ERP based LMS that they provide to various schools.
In all the above B2B Collaborations, they have thoroughly tested our product and also know that we will create a decentralized profile for each of these students on the Blockchain (Edubuk profile).
- Additionally, we are in talks with Next Education which have access to 18,000+ schools in India in the K-12 segment (they are also testing our product as of now, 3 calls have been done and the talks are progressing very well). Lastly, we have Smart Schools Online by which we will have access to 6,000 K-12 segment schools in India.
- Also, since we are a part of State Government of Telangana and NASSCOM’s AI accelerator, Cohort-1 (top 40 startups pan India selected from 1,000+ applications): ([Cohort 1 – Telangana AI Mission (T-AIM)] Started in October 2021, we will be getting access to state school students, and corporate tie-ups via TASK (Telangana Academy of Skills & Knowledge) will give us access to 45,000+ college students in the state (which are registered under TASK, singed letter from Dept. of Education, Telangana state we already have for conducting pilots in 10 model schools and then expand the program state-wide in schools).
3.) So, these are the B2B MoUs and deals + potential more deals that we are in advanced level talks which combined together will access to huge student database; more than 40 million in India, UAE and Egypt (combined together). All these students will have all their profiles (their top 3 intelligence types, their top 3 interest types, their 3 career paths, their 3 customized learning plans, their certificates they got via online learning, their offline certificates will all recorded on the blockchain based Edubuk profile.
Essentially, the customized Edubuk profile for each student on the Blockchain with all their 360 degree skills, interest, intelligence, career path, learning medium, customized learning plans, certificates, transcripts, grades will all be on the chain, recorded in the tamper proof manner:
4.) We will create a skill verification process on the blockchain for example: whenever a user uploads a certificate, it will have to be approved by the certificate providing authority and only then it will be approved on the chain. All the student will be issued Edubuk tokens as an incentivization program (rewards) every-time they upload a certificate, get their skills verified or complete learning milestones by learning on our video-first skilling platform. These Edubuk tokens can be used on our platform to purchase future courses at a discount. Finally these customized Blockchain based Edubuk profile will be used to suggest most relevant job opportunities in the market in sync with each learner’s Edubuk profile.
5.) Deployed the Smart Contracts on the Harmony Testnet : Tx Hash: 0xd11ce7eb226a6e5801e621daf2e28d8855ff0d253e5489c112ef1f3d9e954533
and Contract address this: 0xc86E33af729F125a311Cf9b540437b116aeB87Ba
from wallet address this: one169f9lkeh7xt9kz5zzehhnq8529mf0yglfx37ty (One)
or (Eth wallet address) this: 0xd1525fdb37f1965b0a82166f7980f4517697911f
Edubuk’s Smart Contract deployed on Harmony testnet image here:
Proposal ask
We are applying for a $50,000 grant. Please consider for Bounty Program as suggested by Harmony Team. It will take 2 person for 12 weeks to completely onboard our customer base from web2 to web3 (15,000+) and this includes both backend (solidity + nodejs + web3js) and front end (using React) development: so 2 person * 12 weeks * 6 days of work per week = 144 man-days. and if they work 6 hours a day then: 144 * 6 = 864 man hours.
Metrics for success
Milestones:
1.) Complete our new website: with MIIT Screening & career mapping linked and 20+ active Skilling Courses linked to our ecosystem’s 2 other websites
2.) Deploy the smart contracts on the Harmony Mainnet
3.) Linking the front end of the website with Smart Contracts deployed on the Harmony Testnet on our Moralis hosted website
4.) Having migrated the complete profile of 500 students from the existing website database to the Blockchain based solution.
5.) Having migrated 1000 students from the existing website database to the Blockchain based solution.
External links
Website: http://www.edubuk.io/
Github:GitHub - edubuk/Edubukio-blockchain-code: Edubuk's Smart Contracts Blockchain code
Twitter: https://twitter.com/edubukindia
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edubuk-ai-driven-customized-and-decentralized-skilling-ecosystem-on-the-blockchain-802964188/
Happy to answer any of your queries.
Thanks,
Apoorva