DISCIPLINA: Web of Trust

DISCIPLINA is an open-source blockchain. Any educational or recruiting service will be able to use it in their projects that store and process the personal data.

To protect the system from fictitious educational institutions, DISCIPLINA has an inbuilt Web of Trust, analogous to PGP, in its protocol. Each user will be able to choose the system participants they trust. The level of trust in the other system members will be calculated individually for each user. Our network thus has no “verification centres”, which have an unlimited right to register or refuse the registration of an educational institution.

Our Web Of Trust will allow recruiters to know which educational institutions are worth cooperating with and which are not.

The value of the grade given to the student will depend on the rating of the educational institution at the time the grade was awarded.

The idea of DISCIPLINA: how it originated

The DISCIPLINA project has made significant progress and continues to develop. Today, we would like to recall how it all began. A few years ago, Ilya Nikiforov, the company founder, was travelling along the West Coast of the United States. He decided to take surfing courses and started to search for the most suitable ones online. Having spent considerable time, Ilya faced the issue of fragmented information, since there was no single resource where one could find any course they need. He decided to take its development into his own hands — that is how the TeachMePlease marketplace was created. Analyzing the education situation and working on the project development, it has become clear that there are a lot of other critical issues to be resolved, including the invalidity of post-course certificates and the low value of academic education. Young people enroll in university to get a diploma, seeing no direct correlation between their education and further career development. It thus caus...

Cointelegraph: DISCIPLINA aims to change the future of information sharing

The internet is full of redundant information. People can obtain cheap knowledge more and more easily, but few people screen knowledge, and high-quality knowledge sharing has become increasingly important. High-quality knowledge is not often freely accessible by the public, so how can we obtain it? A direct and effective method is to pay for it. DISCIPLINA will use tokens to motivate knowledge sharers, who will be able to build a community and gather a following. DISCIPLINA will also use smart contracts to ensure a fair deal for those purchasing knowledge. Our token firmly unites knowledge sharers and their fans. Fans’ token holdings also represent their trust in the knowledge sharers as well as their willingness to pay. Education All over the world, young people continue to seek higher education with the goal of landing a job at well-known companies like Google. However, this concept is no longer relevant today. Traditional attitudes need to change. Prominent representatives of ...

How DISCIPLINA will change the education sphere

Education affects our lives and our professional and personal development. However, it is complicated to find an educational institution that provides high-quality services. That is why we either have to rely on online reviews or choose by trial and error. Sometimes you even have to do both, since the reviews can be easily falsified. Moreover, if 20 years ago a person that obtained a degree was considered a specialist with all the required skills, nowadays this is not the case. We have gotten used to the idea that a diploma is just a bullet point in our CVs that is meant to help our career. What is more important is to have necessary competencies, as you can survive without having a diploma. Thus, people prefer to develop their skills either practically or by taking intensive courses rather than by putting significant time and effort into studying at university. Sometimes people consider buying a diploma to be easier than getting it themselves and gaining experience to later become a d...

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