Abstract: Globally, education is regarded as a stepping stone towards country’s success and achievement of its goals. Academic qualification is considered as enough evidence of the possession of necessary skills and knowledge and a prerequisite for personal success in life. It is also viewed as an essential tool for establishment and progression of career which opens many opportunities in one’s life. Due to this essential value attached to academic qualification, academic credentials as a symbol of academic qualification in Kenya and across the world are subject to falsification, forgery and other fraudulent means. Academic dishonesty may have been contributed by lack of decentralized qualification depository system for verification of authenticity of academic certificates in addition to the lack of realization of the benefits of Blockchain technology in this area. Studies revealed that in India such system was successfully installed to curb fake and forgery of academic certificates. Currently, there are methods, projects, and commercial systems present in the related domain, such as digital signature, eCert and Europass. However, they don’t satisfy the verification requirements sufficiently due to their various design purposes. The objective was to design a trustable national depository system for managing certificates for Kenya National Qualifications Authority using a Blockchain technology approach, the research design is mainly quantitative involving the use of questionnaires and a few qualitative aspects from interviews which are to be filled by different stake holders and their response to be analyzed. The anticipated results of this study aimed to curb forgeries of academic certificates and scripts by building a system using a Blockchain technology that will provide permanent secured certificates and facilitate the process of verification of authenticity of certificates thus ease the accessibility by the stakeholders.
Keywords: Blockchain Technology, Kenya National Qualification Depository Management System.
Title: KENYA NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS DEPOSITORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: A BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY APPROACH
Author: FATMA KHAMIS ALI, DR. ELISHA O. OPIYO
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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