Rationale

The world economy is changing. A global pandemic, the rise of web3 and DAOs, remote working, and other trends led to some tectonic shifts in how people learn and work. For this new economy, we need better tools than just formal degrees and self-reported professional profiles such as CVs and LinkedIn. We need skill attestation systems that encompass an ever-changing, internet-native economy. We need globally recognizable, verifiable, user-centric credentialing systems. These systems won’t be built and owned by a single corporation. It will be a decentralized protocol. We are here to make it happen.

Objectives

1. Identify core challenges for professional identity products.

2. Design architecture and technical components required for the protocol.

3. Design an economic mechanism that incentivizes issuance and curation of professional identity data.

4. Outline governance mechanisms for the protocol.

5. Build required components and integrations.

6. Exchange on the vision of the professional identity in web3.

Issues we are working on

1. Cross-chain & off-chain identity interoperability

2. Dynamic skill taxonomies & ontologies

3. Privacy preservation & zero-knowledge

4. Decentralized issuer registry

5. Data models and schemas

6. Storage interoperability

Principles

• Co-creation should manifest itself not only in the common definition of the solution but also in the shared ownership over it

• Openness, composability, and interoperability as core design principles

• As more join this work, we will collectively refine and improve the principles of work

Get involved

Join our regular hands-on workshops and contribute to the design of the protocol.

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Previous workshops:

Workshop: 24/1/2022