Open Recognition Wallet
Description
1. Via ChatGPT:
"In January 2025, discussions around developing an Open Recognition Wallet emerged, aiming to provide individuals with a decentralized platform to store and manage their credentials securely. This initiative seeks to enhance user control and privacy in the digital credentialing space."
(https://blog.weareopen.coop/towards-an-open-recognition-wallet-327fff86b0d5)
2. Doug Bellshaw:
"Now that the latest version of the Open Badges specification is aligned with the Verifiable Credentials data model, there’s a new way to store your credentials: digital wallets. Instead of your badges or credentials being stored on someone else’s platform (usually the issuer’s) you store them on a wallet on your mobile device. In other words, you, as a learner or earner are fully in control."
(https://blog.weareopen.coop/towards-an-open-recognition-wallet-327fff86b0d5)
Characteristis
Doug Bellshaw:
"a wallet should:
- Recognise learning across all contexts, not just formal education
- Empower individuals to control and showcase their diverse achievements
- Be inclusive of often-marginalised and excluded groups
- Support lifewide and lifelong learning pathways
- Enable recognition from multiple sources, including self-issued and community endorsements."
(https://blog.weareopen.coop/towards-an-open-recognition-wallet-327fff86b0d5)