Academic science is indeed the victim of the nefarious relationship between funding and academic institutions.

Decentralized education and academic accreditation is one of my obsessions. Universities are corrupted since day one. The whole system was setup as a partnership between church and bourgeoisie, power and money. Power changed but the nasty relationships remains. Witches were burned because they were practicing medicine without the approval of the universities, without the academic accreditation. (Broom to keep their place clean, cat to get rid of the pests)

I truly believe that a decentralized education network can be implemented and that a protocol can sustain a collective aggregated academic accreditation process. I have developed a fair amount of ideas (a network spanning from introductory classes to research and startup funding, virtual and brick and mortar, with built in workplace recruitment tools) only to realize the magnitude of the task… but I was thinking dApps and tokens. Thinking relays, clients and custom NIPs is opening a new set of possibilities, with a lot of the work already being done.

The key component I am trying to tackle (conceptually) now is aggregated trustworthiness as it is key to the academic accreditation process. At lit review stage, looking for ways to turn the kind of interactions I foresee on the platform into quantitative data that could be processed to assess trustworthiness, then use the aggregation to rate teacher, tutors, assessors, locations, equipment providers, employers, aggregators…. and so on, and weigh the quality of the feedback they provide.

My problem is that my brain works quite well conceptually, but I am not the best at building 😅 I think I was the most effective when my work was mainly to be a brain and I had arms and legs that I could lead. 🤣