Universities · Research institutions · Policy bodies
Research and academia
The regional evidence base on virtual asset crime is thin, and most of what is published about this market is written from datasets that do not include it. That is a research problem worth solving.
International financial crime research consistently under-weights the rails that matter most in East Africa. The result is that policy and compliance frameworks here are frequently designed around a threat picture drawn from somewhere else.
We work with universities both to build teaching capacity and to produce research using public chain data, which is one of the few genuinely open datasets available to researchers in this field.
What this includes
- Curriculum design and contribution for law, finance and computer science programmes
- Guest instruction and semester-long co-delivered modules
- Supervision of applied student research using public chain data
- Joint research on regional financial crime typologies
- Support to policy bodies on the evidence base behind regulatory proposals
- Access to methodology and tooling for academic use
How it runs
Academic partnerships work on longer timescales than commercial engagements and we scope them accordingly. Research collaborations begin with a question that is genuinely open rather than one where the conclusion is already assumed, and we publish findings whether or not they are commercially convenient.
What you receive
- A structured partnership with defined contributions on both sides
- Teaching material the institution owns
- Supervised research output suitable for publication
- A route for graduates into a field that badly needs them
Worth knowing
We treat this line as investment rather than revenue. The constraint on this industry in the region is the number of trained people, and universities are where that constraint is either relieved or not.
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