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goal of this design challenge is to further the ongoing discussion regarding a potentially universal LER and credential survivability and longevity. Issuing bodies such as universities and private companies shutter each year, leaving learners without ongoing access to their digital credentials. No centralized LER exists for documentation and validation of such credentials.
The Challenge Statement: How might we decouple the verification of a skill from the existence of its issuer, creating a digital credential that is as permanent, portable, and owned by the learner as a physical certificate/diploma, yet remains machine-readable and instantly verifiable by any employer globally?
Success Criteria for the Solution:
- Self-Sovereign: The learner must be able to hold the data file and share it without asking the issuer for permission or paying a fee.
- Issuer-Agnostic Verification: The mark of authenticity must survive even if the issuing body dissolves.
- Semantic Interoperability: An employer's system must not just see the file but understand what the skill means within a standards system
- Standard-Verified: A governing body or bodies issue standardization for credential value
