Banzai Signed the Project Unicorn Pledge

Project Unicorn is an initiative focused on making it easier for different education systems and tools in K-12 education to share and work with data smoothly and securely. Their main goal is to create a community of forward-thinkers who promote the need for secure sharing in education.

As schools rely more and more on digital tools and platforms for educational purposes, the need to protect student data grows increasingly prevalent. Which is why Banzai has officially signed the Unicorn Pledge to join the hundreds of other edtech vendors in the common goal of striving to create safe connections for data systems to communicate and work together seamlessly and securely. 

What the Project Unicorn Pledge Means for Banzai Moving Forward

By signing the Project Unicorn Pledge, Banzai has made a commitment to increase secure access, privacy, and interoperability—ensuring different computer systems or software can easily share and use information with each other—in our products. Here are some of the key points that Banzai is committed to improve within our own system processes after signing this pledge:

1. Ensuring that students, teachers, and families have the right technology, resources to succeed in classrooms where lessons, assignments, and communication are increasingly online and interconnected.
2. Push for better data interoperability or raise awareness about the importance of the ability for systems to share and use information across different platforms. This benefits schools by making data management smoother and helps teachers access the right information quickly, ultimately improving the learning experience.
3. Strive to ensure a level of commitment toward creating software or tools that can communicate with other systems seamlessly, leading to better functionality and user satisfaction.
4. Promise to strive for high-quality educational materials that meet established data standards, making it more reliable and effective for teachers and students who have access to them.

Why Interoperability Matters in Education

Everyone educated to teaching financial literacy is no doubt working toward the same goal: to ensure students get the most out of their educational experiences. Seamless data integration provides opportunities for learning in any classroom to be personalized and innovative and prevents common challenges associated with lost or stuck data.