Blockchain is not just about creating tokens and trying to replace FIAT. World has moved far ahead of this greed where the tokens are trying to fight the FIAT and failing every year in the bear market. But the use case of the blockchain is in the educational realm. Where the various educational functions can be integrated into the blockchain.

Paper and the plastic documentation has been troubling the society for ages. And the solution to modify or get duplicates or even make changes to minor things leads to the issues with the humans. And that is where the blockchain comes into the play. Most of the educational institutes have already added the digital data from the paper documents. They have managed to put up this data into the cloud or the safe places already.

Now how can this data be used with blockchains and how come this data would be useful to the consumers? Here are some of the cases.

Educational Data: Historic Performance for Student

Let's say you enrolled into the educational institute where you are giving data to the board where standard 1 to 10th is maintained. They hold the year, dates and the student performance data. This data if required at any stage of your life for various purpose. That should be accessible through the digital means. Now how can you trust this data? By using the blockchain. As it is immutable and any appends are visible in the blockchain.

This data then can be used by the other future institutes for their own usage. This can be a good option for data analysis. It also frees the student and the institute from the tampering of such data like say grades, place etc. You may find that blockchain can be useful in this case as it solves the problem for both institute and the students alike.

Educational Certificates

Let's say you passed the graduation. And you have the paper or plastic documents for the degree or diploma that you have got. You want to show this document to the employer and for some reason it's not in access immediately for you. Like say you are in another city and kept somewhere else or you are losing the access etc. So here the blockchain based cloud access to the document ensures your employer can view it.

You can also show the authenticity based on the verification done and all the necessary checks that are about to be handed over there. You may want to think of the solution as a means for the future updates too. Like any updating certificate or grade would also help get updated there. So physical document loss or update of certificates means you can have the new document in digital form, like you never lost it.

Authenticity, Centralization and Access

As you already noticed the point of keeping the data of any person over a period of time within the cloud or the local database. You are going to have a value out of that access. Authority that issues the documents can sign it and also verify it. And have complete centralized control to avoid any form of the tampering. So not every random Decentralized person or place can issue those documents.

Now comes the access part, this is where the people can find some value of the document. You have your own data accessible based on certain criteria. And like say some govt app that allows you to access only your data based on the details and the verification that you do for the document. This is what most of the people would benefit from as the document would be original and trustworthy due to blockchain.

There are some of the governments that are already issuing these documents. e.g. Indian govt and it's educational sector is already issuing the digital certificates and the verification can be done online too. Likewise there are some other use cases of the blockchain with respect to the documents. I hope to cover that soon.

Does your govt or university has managed to use blockchain and cloud for the documents, certificates and other data?

Do you think this is a progress in the right direction?