About LabTrax
LabTrax accompanies a student from the submission of their application to the creation of their company. Between the two: 11 stages, three collegiate bodies and one principle — every decision must remain demonstrable years later.
The scheme
The startup degree lets a student have their business project recognised as their final-year work, then obtain its label and create their company. LabTrax keeps the register of it for Université pilote (TEST): the applications, the deliberations, the deliverables, the defences and the documents issued.
The software replaces no human decision. It records who decided what, on what date, and on what grounds — and it refuses to let a stage be crossed whose conditions are not met. That is all that is asked of it, and it is already a great deal: the worth of a degree rests on the traceability of what preceded it.
A project may be carried by several students — up to six — who defend it together. They are members on equal footing: the project is shared, and each nevertheless receives their own documents, in their own name.
What the institution keeps at home
The instance is sovereign. The files, the names, the marks and the minutes live on the institution's server and do not leave it. No outside service is called to display a page: even the styling is embedded.
A single channel goes out, and it carries only numbers: how many files, how many defences, how many graduates. No name, no address, no individual mark. And a counter covering fewer than 5 people is not transmitted at all — because in a cohort of twelve students, "one rejected application" designates someone.
What LabTrax deliberately does not do
It does not supervise the institution: the incubator declares the universities and hands them their right of use, it opens no access inside them. It does not grant the label — that is applied for on the ministry portal, and LabTrax merely records the date of the request and that of the reply. It computes no average and invents no mark.
Finally, it never stops of its own accord. An expired licence is signalled on every screen, but it interrupts nothing: cutting off a service that carries student files over an administrative dispute would make the student pay.
The author
Dr Hamid MADANI — doctor of general medicine and of ophthalmology; engineer in computer science and operations research, graduate of the CNAM in Paris; holder of a research master's in bioinformatics from Paris 13. These qualifications have been recognised as equivalent by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
It is from that crossing — medicine on one side, software engineering and operations research on the other — that LabTrax was born. A practitioner knows what a file commits; an engineer knows what data becomes. The software carries both demands: to make the institution's work simpler, without ever making it lose control of what it holds.
LabTrax is developed in Algeria, in Mostaganem, and rests on a library of sovereign components designed and maintained by its author. No building block depends on a foreign service to work.
Contact: drmdh@msn.com · Mostaganem, Algeria · author's site: www.amia.fr