For the first half of 2025, Bowie State University will lead an initiative to get students and community members the skills, knowledge, connections, and mindset to obtain jobs supporting open payments that aid digital financial inclusion by aggregating materials and offering mentorship. We are recruiting major and class-standing agnostic students across campus at Maryland's oldest HBCU. This effort continues to grow the scope of impact from classroom to college to campus-wide to globally inclusive participation. Using the community-interledger.org posts, we aim to share the pathways process beyond the campus to other HBCUs. We hope the community contributions will encourage ramping to open payments to different universities and lifelong learners.
The 15-week+ pathways series is meant to help progress anyone from interest to contributor. This big, audacious goal builds upon successful efforts at Bowie State and in the Interledger / ILF community. Reflecting upon past and current work, I could not be more proud of my efforts at and beyond BSU. I'm enthusiastically serving as an ambassador and mentor for students seeking to make a difference in FinTech and an open web.
We continue to build a more inclusive financial system by providing tools that offer everyone the chance to join, knowledge, mentorship to grow, and the opportunity to build a career.
If you are here reading this post, you are in a great spot!
Here's the first week's challenge -
- What is the mission and vision for interledger.org?
- Consider how many ways a 1 (Euro, Rand, Dollar, Yen) can be sent to someone in another country. (Hint: ILP, Western Union, PayPal, Ripple (XRP), Venmo, Pix, FedNow, UPI, Twint, Bitcoin/Ethereum, Check, SWIFT) What are the costs - time, energy, security, transaction fees? (F I recommend creating a table to better under the various options)
- How are open payments different than closed payments? (Visa / Western Union)
- Check out some of the past work - https://community.interledger.org/andrewmangle
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