{"title":"Using Blockchain to Store Teachers' Certification in Basic Education in Mexico","authors":"A. L. F. Velázquez, Cristina Cárdenas, A. Almazan","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2019.00070","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain has the potential to transform the financial services industry, institutional functions, business operations, and other areas such as education. The current paper focuses on one real-world illustration of Blockchain's potential - a pilot project that used a Blockchain (hosted by Ethereum) to store certifications for 1,518 teachers who participated in a teacher training in Mexico.","PeriodicalId":356549,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2019.00070","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Blockchain has the potential to transform the financial services industry, institutional functions, business operations, and other areas such as education. The current paper focuses on one real-world illustration of Blockchain's potential - a pilot project that used a Blockchain (hosted by Ethereum) to store certifications for 1,518 teachers who participated in a teacher training in Mexico.