Cardano Smart Students DApp

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Market: Cardano Smart Students DApp project will enable a huge number of people around the world - Latin America, Africa, Asia (over 600 million in India and China) to obtain a higher education degree in Informatics and Computer Science with a "European diploma" without leaving the family and work environment. Тhe project represents the evolution from "bricks" (buildings) to a Virtual electronic University (VeU) - a web-based environment that models the learning process in the Cardano Smart Students Dapp. This model has many advantages over traditional universities:

• Saving costs for transport, accommodation, visas, etc.;

• Virtual E-library, access to E-resources, articles, etc.;

• Bringing education closer to the student, instead of practice;

• Adaptation of the student to the university.

By adhering to the concept of Cardano Smart Students DApp, the potential users of educational services will be:

• People who have not had the opportunity to study so far;

• People who need to master Informatics and Computer Science in order to keep their jobs and income at the moment;

• People who have difficulties in obtaining a visa to study in a member state of the European Union;

• Progressive European educational institutions with a view to the future development of the world and the imposition of blockchain in the educational process.

Product: Cardano Smart Students Dapp's purpose is to ensure highest level of communication between European educational institutions and students. It is designed to be scalable and to easily process huge databases with profiles, learning materials and educational content using the principles of parallel information processing. The platform will be built in modules, which will allow adding, removing or editing individual parts of it without affecting its overall functionality. The highest security standards will be set for both the profiles and the available data. The platform will have algorithms for Artificial Intelligence (AI), which will be employed for a more complete user experience, analysis of the usage of the platform and predictions for future actions.

Acquisition: Downloading, registration and reviewing some study materials on Cardano Smart Students Dapp will be for no cost. When the student decides to join particular educational program - all the tuitions, fees and necessary learning materials will be paid in application tokens based on Cardano blockchain.

Monopoly: The use of the Cardano Smart Students Dapp will get more stronger with the widespread acceptance of decentralization and cryptocurrencies as a means of payment.

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ROADMAP - KEY MILESTONES OF THE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT:

• In two months: Platform design. This stage includes the creation of a user interface in accordance with modern requirements and UI / UX.

• In six months: The platform will not be developed from scratch (it was developed for our internal purposes 5 years ago) and it is constantly catalyzed. At this stage of development API will be added, which will allow data transfer with third-party scalability of the platform. Another key step will be creating a mobile application for Android and iOS. Adding of mobile applications is becoming necessary because, according to studies, it is the preferred way of working by over 75% of users. And last but not least is the integration of the platform with the Cardano blockchain. The final stage is the testing of the platform, for which we will be grateful to the Cardano community if will be allowed to join.

• In nine months: Promotion and marketing of the platform and Cardano. This stage is divided into two parts. The first envisages the presentation of the platform to the university and the academic community. The second part is the promotion of the platform in front of potential future students. This will be done through ads on social media, Google Ads, through partners, etc.

THE BUDGET AND HOW IT WILL BE SPENT:

The initiators of the Cardano Smart Students Dapp project estimate that for its successful implementation a total budget of $160,000, of which $ 80,000 own funds are already spent in development of the project and $80,000 grant under the Cardano Catalyst program is needed.

According to analysts on average, a development team needs 1,000 hours and more to build the basic functionality for an online e-learning platform. As Cardano Smart Students Dapp is a blockchain project and it will have unique features, so the final estimate may exceed twice or more times the hours needed for development of the platform.

The Cardano Catalyst grant of $80,000 will be spent as follows:

• Design of the platform

• Web and API development (Landing page, features for teachers, features for students, admin panel)

• Mobile App Development

• Marketing of the Cardano Smart Students Dapp (campaign in various communication channels

IT Akademia JSC:

Atanas Kostov - CEO

Developers - 5 people

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Key performance indicators (KPIs):

• Users acquired: 1000 enrolled students and 50 educational institutions registered on the platform in the first year, 10 000 students and 300 educational institutions in the second year.

• Products capability built: Creating a sustainable platform based on Cardano blockchain.

• Performance benchmark reached: Listing as No 1 decentralized online learning platform based on reliability, trust, security and efficiency of Cardano ecosystem, which will be superior to existing centralized online learning platforms.

• Network stability achieved for X amount of time: The Cardano Smart Students DApp is a long term project and the number of users – students and providers of educational content will increase gradually with the mass adoption of blockchain and Cadrano in the years to follow.

Putting the educational blockchain system into schools, colleges and universities will make all students' educational data integrated into blockchain ledgers. The immutability feature of blockchain technology will remove the possibility of modifying educational record and the Cardano Smart Students DApp will serve as a reliable intermediary in the educational process.

The proposal was presented in F7 but was not funded:

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/383736