Sony Corporation and Sony Global Education, a subsidiary of Sony focused on global educational services, have developed a new blockchain-based student education records platform.

Developed using IBM Blockchain, the new solution will enable school administrators to consolidate and manage students' educational data from several schools, as well as record and refer their learning history and digital academic transcripts with more certainty. It uses blockchain technology running on the IBM Cloud to track students' learning progress, as well as establish transparency and accountability of scholastic achievements between students and schools.

"Blockchain technology has the potential to impact systems in a wide variety of industries, and the educational sphere is no exception when educational data is securely stored on the blockchain and shared among permissioned users. We are pleased that we have worked together with IBM to build a new system which can help effect real change in the education sector," said Masaaki Isozu, President of Sony Global Education.

The platform will provide students with a digital, trusted record of their achievements that can be easily and quickly verified by any future employers or educational institutions. The data recorded on the platform is verified using IBM Blockchain and can be shared with interested parties including school administrators and prospective employers.

In its official release, IBM explained that the platform can also be used by educational institutions to share data to help teachers more determine and implement unique teaching methods for each student, as well as help vendors target offerings based on verified needs.

The platform is built on IBM Blockchain, which is delivered via the IBM Cloud and powered by Hyperledger Fabric 1.0, a blockchain framework and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation.

"Blockchain offers a new approach to how the lifetime history of data related to a person, place or thing is shared and managed. In effect, data tracked on a blockchain becomes a single source of truth," said Yoshiki Minowa, Vice President, Partner - Cognitive Process Transformation, Global Business Services, IBM Japan. "We are delighted to have supported Sony Corporation and Sony Global Education to build up a new blockchain-based platform for innovations in education."

Sony Global Education plans to launch the blockchain-based service in 2018.

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