Expercoin: Upskilling the Unemployed by Creating A Community

in unemployment •  6 years ago 

Overview:
It is a decentralized network of market place for the advanced learning powered by AI and Blockchain, which is aiming to educate and upskill the unemployed people in their specializations, works with tokenization model and backed by well experienced team and advisors.

Problem:
Traditional education to employment system has many issues in the recent trends, as the technology is growing, and people are not able to cope with the fast-changing technology, nearly 30-45% of working age population in the world are unemployed due to various reasons like lack of skills, lack of resources. With the advanced features in work places such as artificial intelligence and machine learning it is threatening the existing jobs, to sustain in the advanced technology person should be extreme talent.

The curriculum in the school and demanded skills required for the companies has absolutely no relation with each other. There is no practical education as such in the existing system

Solution:
To solve the issues of unemployment, it has come up with AI based training and market place which is completely decentralized and highly scalable ecosystem with nearly 30,000 experts. It allows individuals and organizations to create their specialized market places. Educator are aiming to upskill the employees in both education and work for that specialization.

It uses smart contracts which contains all the details about course price and course review, listings, and student performance which ensures security and transparency in the course.
Expercoin pillar or custom front decentralized applications (dApp) which has learning market place, jobs market place, assessment platform, mentorship platform, cooperate academy and peer to peer financial aid.

Token economy:
Expercoin issues Ethereum based token called “EXPR” which can be used in the internal ecosystem of the platform for the services availed and rewards in the platform.

Token details:
Token symbol: EXPR
Token type: ERC20
Total supply of tokens: 2.75 Billion
ICO Price 1EXPR=$0.04
Hardcap: $26.5 million
Pre-Sale: 1st June to 30th Sep 2018
Crowd-Sale: 01st Nov 2018

Team:
Dr. Harpreet Singh – CEO & Founder
Dr. Singh works at the intersection of Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning, developing Advanced Cryptoeconomic Systems, Roadmaps, Algorithms and Data Products. He completed his masters’ and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Previously, worked with Citigroup, FX Alliance and Creative Stride. He’s having expertise in Cloud Computing, Consulting, Big Data, Analytics etc.

Sarabjot Kaur – Co-Founder
She drives the overall product vision, strategy and growth of the Experfy Platform. She’s having expertise in AI, Blockchain and IoT Industry. She was a CEO of Boston based Digital Agency named Creative Stride for more than a decade. She led ambitious technology initiatives for organizations such as Harvard, EMC and Computer Associates. She has also served in various strategic and consulting positions at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), Citigroup and Fidelity eBusiness.

Jothi Periasamy – Head of AI, Experfy
He’s a MIT Sloan and MIT CSAIL learning facilitator for AI for business courses taken by global leaders and executives. Previously, he served as a Managing Director and Innovation Leader at KPMG’s North America Advisory Practice and Innovation Center. Also, he held a leadership positions at Blue Shield and Deloitte.

Verdict:
Pros:
• Idea of the project looks great, as it is benefiting the many un employed and unskilled people in the world
• Social media hype is very good, its telegram community has 38k+
• It has clients like TATA, Deloitte, Gulf, Vistaprint, Cigna, Duracell, Eurig Green Mountain
• MVP is available in their website and it is user friendly
• Roadmap is very clear about their future milestones to be achieved till 2019
• Partnered with Riveles Wahab LLP and JVL Taxlaw.
• Executive members are experienced in AI, Big Data, Cryptocurrency, Machine Learning, IoT and Blockchain Technology.
• Investors and advisors are experienced in Business Development, Economics, Finance and Blockchain Technology.

Cons:
• Its service cost is bit high
• No statistics mentioned about past achievements

Links:
Website: https://www.expercoin.com/
Whitepaper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yjLTsnUEFKj70VXI1sp5LhdSlPwbptkd/view
Telegram: https://t.me/Expercoin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/expercoin
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Expercoin
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Expercoin

Bitcoin talk Username -anushkamehta0902
Bitcoin talk URL: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2039767
ETH Address – 0xd1c62C22C078A0C6B1E42F7200F0b082EE81a64a

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