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TEduChain: a blockchain-based platform for crowdfunding tertiary education

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  • Abstract: Blockchain is an emerging technology framework for creating and storing transaction in distributed ledgers with a high degree of security and reliability. In this paper, we present a blockchain-based platform to create and store contracts in between students and their higher education sponsors facilitated by intermediary brokers denoted as fundraisers. The sponsorship might be in any form, such as scholarship, donation, or loan. The fund will be arranged and managed by a group of competitive fundraisers who will hold the distributed ledgers and act as the miners in the blockchain network.
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    Mahmood A. Rashid, Krishneel Deo, Divnesh Prasad, Kunal Singh, Sarvesh Chand, Mansour Assaf. 2020. TEduChain: a blockchain-based platform for crowdfunding tertiary education. The Knowledge Engineering Review 35(1), doi: 10.1017/S0269888920000326
    Mahmood A. Rashid, Krishneel Deo, Divnesh Prasad, Kunal Singh, Sarvesh Chand, Mansour Assaf. 2020. TEduChain: a blockchain-based platform for crowdfunding tertiary education. The Knowledge Engineering Review 35(1), doi: 10.1017/S0269888920000326
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TEduChain: a blockchain-based platform for crowdfunding tertiary education

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Abstract: Abstract: Blockchain is an emerging technology framework for creating and storing transaction in distributed ledgers with a high degree of security and reliability. In this paper, we present a blockchain-based platform to create and store contracts in between students and their higher education sponsors facilitated by intermediary brokers denoted as fundraisers. The sponsorship might be in any form, such as scholarship, donation, or loan. The fund will be arranged and managed by a group of competitive fundraisers who will hold the distributed ledgers and act as the miners in the blockchain network.

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    • The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions to improve the quality of the paper. They are also grateful to Prof. A. Sharma, Dr K. Chaudhary, Prof. S. Naidu, Dr A. Sharma, and Dr T. Sarker for their support and guidance during the implementation and writing phase of this work.

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