Mi Primer Bitcoin has a aim of reaching greater than 300,000 Salvadorans with its training program this yr and to offer out at the very least 7,700 presentational diplomas.
El Salvador’s Ministry of Schooling has partnered with the nonprofit, nongovernmental group (NGO) Mi Primer Bitcoin (MPB which interprets to “My First Bitcoin”) to introduce Bitcoin training in public faculties by 2024.
The MPB diploma program was launched in 2022 with its first cohort starting their journey in Bitcoin training in Might. It was based by American activist and author John Dennehy with the assist of Bitcoin proponent President Nayib Bukele’s authorities.
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Talking with Cointelegraph, Dennehy revealed that the Ministry of Schooling’s program so as to add Bitcoin to the general public college curriculum will likely be carried out with help from MPB and Bitcoin Seashore. He added that the Mi Primer Bitcoin program would function the first supply after all materials.
“As the primary nation to undertake Bitcoin, El Salvador will likely be an instance for the world. High quality training is our greatest probability to make sure that that instance is a optimistic one.”
This system is scheduled to start on September 7 and can start with the coaching of 150 public college academics from 75 faculties. After gaining primary data about Bitcoin, the academics will return to their faculties prepared to show from the brand new curriculum. Relying on the success of this system, it may up being applied in each college within the Central American nation.
“If profitable,” Dennehy mentioned, “this system will likely be rolled out to each college within the nation subsequent yr […] When My First Bitcoin started two years in the past, one of many goals was to teach a nation. This can be a vital step towards that.”
Taking Bitcoin Schooling to the World
Mi Primer Bitcoin has a goal of reaching greater than 300,000 Salvadorans with its training program this yr and to offer out at the very least 7,700 presentational diplomas. MPB Chair Dalia Platt believes that as “the primary Bitcoin nation”, El Salvador is uniquely suited to spearhead Bitcoin training worldwide.
Bitcoin Seashore neighborhood chief Roman Martínez revealed that greater than 25,000 college students within the Latin American nation have already been taught about Bitcoin within the classroom. MPB founder Dennehy says the group’s focus goes past El Salvador. The final word aim is to carry Bitcoin training to the world.
“El Salvador is main the best way with public Bitcoin training, and we anticipate different nations to comply with. The world is watching,” mentioned he.
The founder additionally revealed that MPB is at present in talks with two different nations within the area which are searching for to undertake the same strategy as El Salvador in direction of educating native college students about cryptocurrency. On September 4, Bitcoin Cuba announced that it was taking functions for its first version of Mi Primer Bitcoin.
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