▄▄▄WHAT IS THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARYThe Universal Library is a decentralised resource data base aiming to act as the base for educational research and learning in the future. It is a search engine that will facilitate a rating system with incentives in order to promote the most accurate results associated with the search term. In simpler terms, it is Google but only for educational resources, and displays results that are a lot more accurate.
▄▄▄VISIONAs educators ourselves, the Universal Library team is a firm advocate of accessible education. Not everyone can afford to attend educational institutions, and this is more evident in less financially well off countries. However, if motivated enough, anyone should have access to the materials required in learning, and that's what we aim to create and pioneer.
▄▄▄TEAMThe Universal Library team consists of multiple Australian University figures who educate for a living. Currently, we have members from the University of Sydney (founding institution of the UNI project), University of Melbourne and Swinburne University of Technology. We are currently still expanding and are in final talks of recruiting 2 more senior educators with IT backgrounds from another major Victorian University. Both our website and whitepaper have more details on our individual team members. Jonathan Thong, an economics and data Doctor at the University of Melbourne (formerly Sydney) manages the PR aspect of this project, and most enquiries are answered by him, unless other specific members are contacted.
▄▄▄PROGRESS AND DETAILS-This project was brought to light and founded at the end of the Academic year of 2017, through the interests of University of Sydney staff. Through former colleagues, interstate educators with a passion for the idea were also recruited from Victoria. We are rapidly gaining traction in terms of interest from other domestic educational institutions, and expect several more team members over Australia to join our team in 2018. Currently we have 9 members.
-Currently, our time and effort put into this project is not compensated, and all the work completed so far is out of project interest. This is not sustainable throughout the academic year of 2018 due to University commitments. We will be working on the project 7 days a week: Weekdays outside of our University commitments, Weekends FULL-TIME.
-We have received a grant from the Australian Government as of last month for $700,000 AUD, and the remainder of the required project funds will be acquired through our crowdsale.
-Our current website and whitepaper are NOT final, we expect a completely new website and completely re-written whitepaper with more intricate details to be released after we begin working full time 7 days a week on the initiation of this project (Academic year will begin in March 2018, we hope to work full time between now until then)
▄▄▄CROWDSALE DETAILS:-Hardcap: 3000 ETH, Initial fundraising goal of $2.1M USD ($2.7M AUD)
-Rate: 2000 UNI Tokens/1.0 ETH
-Crowdsale officially public as of today 04/01/2018, and will conclude when hardcap is reached, or 28/02/2018
THERE IS NO PRESALE
Note: If acquired funds after the crowdsale concludes exceed our goal of $2.1m SUBSTANTIALLY, tokens from our reserve will be airdropped to contributing addresses, the number of UNI tokens depending on contribution amount.
▄▄▄COMMON QUESTIONS AND THEIR ANSWERS:Q: How will your project differ from the collections of books by Google? I think the whole problem is copyright, how do you want to cope with this problem? (Asked by user 'Ted King')
A: Google is a centralised search engine which is not limited to just educational resources. The UNI search engine will be a decentralised resource database ONLY, it is a peer-reviewed encyclopedia which aims to be extremely accurate in displaying what resource you are looking for. We are in the talks with a very successful project also operating on the Ethereum network which targets the issue of digital ownership, they are also out advisors. Existing resources will be fine to upload onto our network given that the appropriate referencing is done (as for all works nowadays).
▄▄▄LINK TO WEBSITE:
http://universal-library.net/▄▄▄LINK TO WHITEPAPER:
http://universal-library.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/WHITEPAPER.pdf ▄▄▄LINK TO CROWDSALE:
http://universal-library.net/index.php/crowdsale/If you have any enquiries about the project, our email is
admin@universal-library.net, if you have a question which relates to the project in general, please post it below and we will answer it and edit this post for greater visibility.
