Izobraževanje z verigo blokov: mojstrski tečaji Binance dosežejo 400,000 Afričanov

In January this year, Nigerian computer software engineer Opeyemi Olabode was one of 1,000 people to join a free, eight-week masterclass for blockchain developers, hosted by Binance, the world’s leading crypto exchange by volume. The course was well oversubscribed, with over 10,000 applicants.

Končno je diplomiralo 300 študentov - eden od njih je bil Olabode. Danes je sam razvijalec blokovnih verig za podjetje tveganega kapitala in podjetje za pospeševanje Brinc. Osemtedenski mojstrski tečaj je »presegel moja pričakovanja,« je dejal. "Moral sem se naučiti toliko tehnično kot tudi poslovno."

The course he attended, Masterclass Developers Edition, is just one of around 700 events Binance has launched during the last two years—taking in everything from blockchain basics to crypto safety and careers. Over 400,000 Africans have participated in the events to date.

Kar zadeva kriptovalute, je »danes Binance največji izobraževalec v Afriki,« je povedal Emmanuel Babalola, direktor za Afriko pri Binance in ustvarjalec programa Masterclass. Dešifriraj. Globlji potop je pojasnil, zakaj so bili dogodki tako uspešni in zakaj je izobraževanje o kriptovalutah tako pomembno za Afriko.

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Babalola je samouk, razvijalec programske opreme, ki je izdelal številne finančne produkte in dapps. Je tudi začasni izvršni direktor Bundle, aplikacije za socialna plačila, usmerjena v Afriko.

Prior to becoming Binance Africa director, he was the company’s business development manager and is based in Nigeria, a tehnološko središče, known for its savvy youth (the povprečna starost je 18 let).

Nigerija dosledno vodi na lestvici Bitcoin iskanja v Googlu in mojstrski tečaji so se tam začeli v začetku leta 2020 - sprva za boj proti napačnim prepričanjem mnogih Afričanov, da so vse kriptovalute prevare, in za premagovanje ovir za vstop, pravi Babalola.

Zasnovani so bili tako, da zapolnijo praznino na trgu z brezplačnimi, kakovostnimi vsebinami. "Na celini, kot je Afrika, ima blockchain in kripto potencialno največ primerov uporabe," je dejal.

In Africa, mobile payments and a flourishing fintech ecosystem have unlocked new fields and markets in e-commerce and crypto. They’ve found room to grow on a continent unencumbered by outmoded infrastructure or monopolies. But fragmented infrastructure still means that Africans pay the najvišji stroški nakazila in the world, and are the second-highest unbanked population (after China).

Pandemija COVID je izkrivila načrtovano turnejo mojstrskih tečajev petih držav, ko pa so se dogodki preselili na splet, je Babalola ugotovila, da je zanimanje še večje, saj so ljudje izgubili službo in dohodek, zato so morali ostati doma.

V skladu s tem trendom vse leto 2020 so se mojstrski tečaji Binance v veliki meri osredotočili na trgovanje s kriptovalutami in pokazali ljudem, kako bi lahko s kripto ustvarili bogastvo. Letos pa je ekipa želela pokazati, kako lahko zgradijo kariero, in predstaviti številne možnosti, ki niso na voljo za trgovanje s kriptovalutami.

»Če pogledamo Afriko z ravnjo brezposelnosti in podzaposlenosti, je bilo to smiselno. In dobili smo ogromne, ogromne povratne informacije - imeli smo približno 36,000 ljudi [na otvoritveni dan], «je povedala Babalola.

Otvoritveni dogodek, ki je predstavil kariero blockchaina, je bil pred mojstrskimi tečaji razvijalcev, predstavil pa ga je izvršni direktor Binance Changpeng "CZ" Zhao.

And the final event was a demo show by the most outstanding attendees, including Olabode, who displayed the skills they had mastered in the form of newly built products for Pametna veriga Binance (BSC). Njihovi projekti so se razširili v obseg primerov uporabe, vključno z kmetovanjem vlog in donosom, stabilnimi kovanci in zavarovanjem.

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V Afriki vseprisotnost mobilnih telefonov pomeni, da za 25 USD kupi telefon z brskalnikom in možnostmi WhatsApp, zato dostop do učnih vsebin ni težak, je dejal Babalola.

Language barriers can present less surmountable obstacles, although that hasn’t stopped Binance, which hosted its first-ever masterclass for French-speaking Africans last July. The class, which dealt with crypto basics, such as the easiest ways to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, and how to make passive or active income, had 3900 attendees.

Binance now plans more work in countries such as Senegal, Cameroon and DRC.

"Želimo iti tja, kjer obstaja resnična potreba, zato se širimo po celotni francosko govoreči regiji," je dejala Babalola. "Videli smo potrebo po večji lokalizaciji."

In keeping with this strategy, the team is also launching “Moj razred Binance,” a series of events for those who want to be blockchain educators themselves. The goal is to decentralize crypto education through the creation of smaller learning communities.

Other initiatives in the pipeline include a million-dollar hackathon, focused on Decentralised Finance (DeFi)—a major driver of company business. And always on tap are webinar replays on YouTube, and the Akademija za binance, which contains over 280 postavke covering everything from computer security to economics in 21 different languages.

Africa’s overall trading crypto volumes are a tiny dva odstotka svetovnih količin, but cryptocurrencies have created some life-changing value here, compared to other regions, as Akin Sawyerr, a US-based crypto investor and ecosystem builder told Dešifriraj konec lanskega leta.

»Ljudem je dovoljeno upravljati podjetja, kjer prej niso mogli; mladim je dovoljeno, da imajo določeno raven suverenosti in neodvisnosti, in jim omogočilo, da ustvarijo vrednost - da bodo za to plačani - to je ogromno, «je dejal.

Morda bi to pojasnilo, zakaj se je letos Binance udeležil njegovih dogodkov, pa tudi afriških registracij na svoji borzi. Morda se bodo nekateri med njimi pridružili Opeyemi Olabode in se lotili kripto kariere.

Vir: https://decrypt.co/81672/blockchain-education-binance-masterclasses-reach-400000-africans