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Saturday Star reports that the University of Johannesburg (UJ) is the first South African institution to enhance the security of its certificates by adding blockchain-based security features to them.
This comes as the tertiary education institution has recognised the need for universities to continuously increase their security features. Dr Tinus van Zyl of Central Academic Administration at UJ explained that this was related to the certification processes, as well as to prevent certificate fraud and counterfeiting, and to avoid fraudulent representation of qualifications. He explained that the university was the first SA institution to offer its graduates digital certificates back in 2019 to enable its graduates to access their qualifications digitally. The new blockchain-based certificate features would enhance the security of certificates even more, he added. “The digital certificate system, which was introduced a while back for our graduates, gave graduates access to their certificates digitally and assisted in securely sharing these certificates with third parties or prospective employers, at no cost. Certificates issued from this year on will have QR codes printed on them, which anybody can scan with a smartphone to verify whether the information on the certificate is correct and has been issued legitimately by UJ,” Van Zyl explained.
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