Malta launches the next project, in which all evidence of education issued in the country will be stored in the blockchain.

According to the Malta Today local newspaper, the initiative is the expansion of a two-year experimental project, in which all national educational institutions participate.

The list of certificates will include certificates of secondary education issued by the state, church and independent schools. According to the report, the Maltese government signed a two-year contract with the Learning Machine software developer to implement a pilot project.

During the signing of the contract in Castile, the Prime Minister Joseph Muscat (Joseph Muscat) said that Malta would become the first country in the world, which placed all diplomas about education in the blockchain.

Back in January 2017, information appeared that the Ministry of Education and Employment Malta works with Learning Machine over the transfer to Bitcoin's Bitsoin all university diplomas, certificates and summaries using the open Blockcerts Standard. In the fall of 2017, MIT used Bitcoin blockchain to produce digital diplomas for more than 100 graduates.

To use the Blockcerts Standard for the release of diplomas at the blockchain, 16 countries of the Caribbean are also collected, which in the autumn of last year they launched a pilot project of the issue of electronic certificates, and the University of Bahrain, who declared its plans at the beginning of this year.

Blockchain and education sphere increasingly go hand in hand. In December, it became known that the business school in India began issuing diplomas at the Etherician Blockchain, and in November, a consortium from six Universities of Malaysia stated that it would create the E-SCROLL Blockchalter, with which it will be possible to verify the authenticity of the diploma and make sure A graduate of the scientific degree.