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Vision - An Innovative Management System Based on Private DLT

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Education is a crucial aspect of most nations. It is the backbone of society, but many regulations and multiple actors make it a complex bureaucratic system, lacking transparency and efficiency. Furthermore, the use of central databases in storing academic records raises concerns about security issues. In this paper, issues of the academic processes in the current system are pointed out, and the solution using private distributed ledger technology is proposed accordingly. A brief comparison with Blockcerts, which is a counterpart using public blockchain to facilitate decentralized certificate verification, is made to emphasize the benefits of the proposed system. Based on distributed ledger technologies, the solution we present aims to create a transparent system to support the institutions’ processes and lay a solid foundation for lifelong learning.

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    https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-2.2/.

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    https://www.blockcerts.org/.

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    Thien Pham, Alessio Bonti, Xuemei Jiang & Manas Palaparthi

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Pham, T., Bonti, A., Jiang, X., Palaparthi, M. (2022). Vision - An Innovative Management System Based on Private DLT. In: Bao, W., Yuan, X., Gao, L., Luan, T.H., Choi, D.B.J. (eds) Ad Hoc Networks and Tools for IT. ADHOCNETS TridentCom 2021 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 428. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98005-4_20

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