Open Badges 3.0 and Verifiable Credentials

Create verifiable records of achievements and skills, controlled independently from the constraints of third-party platforms.

Gold Seal With Blue Ribbon On A Certificate Of Achievement

What can Open Badges do for you?

Enhance portability: Store information in a verifiable credential held on the end user’s mobile device that can be controled and shared, either in full or select parts, anywhere and anytime.

Create verifiable records: Easily share details about certifications, qualifications, and achievements on social media or other platforms using interoperable verification technology.

Platform agnostic: Remove the need for a centralized Open Badges platform so users have control over their privacy and can consent to share their data in secure, privacy-preserving ways.

Fight fraud: Open Badges credentials are tamper-proof, privacy-preserving, and shared on encrypted channels tied to biometrics. There is no password to be stolen and these credentials can’t be forged or stolen.

Increase efficiency: Give users control of their data using privacy-by-design technology. Remove the need to check in with a third party and quickly share data across platforms.

Simplifying certifications for everyone

Education certificates, diplomas, and records

Simplify sharing of information related to an earned degree or the individual completed coursework.

Government permits and licenses

Create scaleable ways to share sensitive data and documents using privacy-preserving tools.

Machine-readable verification

Create faster, more secure ways to authenticate data automically and remove manual verification processes

How Indicio can help

Indicio offers ready-to-use Open Badges through Verifiable Credentials. The key difference between open badges using Verifiable Credentials and regular Open Badges is the ability through decentralization to hold and store your own badge.

Open Badges are often stored and managed on third-party providers or platforms. But what happens in 20 years if that provider goes out of business or you don’t communicate with your university anymore?

By storing the badge as a Verifiable Credential, it can be directly held and controlled by the person who earned the achievement, and removes the reliance on third-party providers or platform for both storage and verification.

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