The electronics Giant, Sony announced that it is planning to launch a blockchain platform to manage educational documents.
Sony has worked on this blockchain platform for the last month to prepare it for commercialization.
The idea behind it is simply using blockchain technology to store and manage educational documents.
Believing it prevents cheating and counterfeiting, Sony also promotes this blockchain platform to increase accessibility to educational records.
It means that, resumes could be distributed between academic institutes and hiring companies.
Additionallay, distributed structure of Blockchain makes it impossible to manipulate the data.
Applications of SONY blockchain platform
It may have many advantages in the process of hiring job applicants.
For example, When google wants to hire you, does not require your educational records or resumes.
Because they are already available in a permissioned blockchain platform.
This option facilitates the interview process and let google to design newer instruments to evaluate applicants.
Moreover, this innovation is capable to be combined with the artificial intelligence which allows greater analysis of educational records and recommends better curriculum.
SONY blockchain vision
Applications of this blockchain product still should go a long way.
However, sony is hopefully wants to utilize it in the next mathematics challenge.
According to the sony global education section, this IBM based blockchain with fabric hyperledger would not be the last blockchain project of this Electronics company.
They also look for potential applications in the areas Internet of things, digital assets, logistics, digital content, property registration and cryptocurrencies.