Interesting - the W3C is about to charter a WG for 'Verifiable Claims' - which are intended to be essentially the same thing (I think). OpenBadge, Pearson and ETS are contributors with one purpose to publish OpenBadges via blockchain - which is very similar to the educational credentials objective at MIT Media Labs. *Andrew Hughes *CISM CISSP Independent Consultant *In Turn Information Management Consulting* o +1 650.209.7542 m +1 250.888.9474 1249 Palmer Road, Victoria, BC V8P 2H8 AndrewHughes3000@gmail.com ca.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-hughes/a/58/682/ *Identity Management | IT Governance | Information Security * On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:41 AM, j stollman <stollman.j@gmail.com> wrote:
MIT Media Lab is proffering a standard for blockchain-secured certificates:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/mit-media-lab- releases-code-for-digital-certificates-on-the-blockchain-1465404945
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