Headline : Akowe wants to fix Africa’s broken certificate system with blockchain

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The crypto industry has long been criticized for its disconnection with the real world, but there are players who try to show that the underlying blockchain technology can solve some of our most pressing challenges in today’s society — especially in regions where basic infrastructure is lacking.

Akowe, a Lagos-based startup that is part of TechCrunch Disrupt’s 2023 Startup Battlefield 200, has developed a blockchain-based platform for issuing verifiable academic records. Speaking with TechCrunch in an interview, Akowe’s founder, Ayodeji Agboola, suggested that there’s a big demand for digital certificate verification systems in sub-Saharan Africa partly due to the difficulty of reissuing academic records and universities’ possessiveness of them.

“The university prides itself on the fact that a student passes through their school and that the certificate is issued to that member. They issue the certificate usually only once. If it gets lost, most times they don’t want to reissue; what they would give you is an affidavit. That singular nature of universities makes them very protective of certificates,” Agboola said.

In 2018, the founder, who ran a digital marketing business, started training a cohort of small business owners to use Facebook. By 2019, the program had trained 30,000 individuals and needed to prove people’s completion of the course.

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