Open Passport

= "project aims at establishing a native, distributed, open trust infrastructure based on a network of Open Badge Passports (OBPassport) that seamlessly issue, receive, share and display badges".

URL = http://openpassport.me/

Description

"While Open Badges have been described as the “New Currency for Professional Credentials,” the true value of Open Badges is the trust they embed, the trust that badge holders receive from badge issuers.

The project aims at establishing a native, distributed, open trust infrastructure based on a network of Open Badge Passports (OBPassport) that seamlessly issue, receive, share and display badges. Fully OBI compliant and open source, the OBPassport will provide users and organisations with their own backpacks and create the conditions for the emergence of new services through the provision of an open API.

The OBPassport will address a number of issues elicited from the current implementations of the OBI:

• User unfriendliness — badges will be received and displayed with one click
• Power unbalance between issuers and holders — everybody will be issuing and receiving badges
• Data fragmentation — different data types will be hosted: Open Badges, xAPI statements, evidence and more
• Data exploitation — new services, trusted by the owner, will have access to the OBPassport through an API
• Data management — user-defined rules and policies will be enforced (a must have, for trust networks)

The OBPassport will provide social features, such as the creation of badge aggregations at group, network, organisation or business levels, the display of badges earned by friends in one’s activity stream, or the search for people with a specific badge, sharing evidence across passports.

Eventually, the OBPassport will empower their owners to create a new type of ePortfolio, a trustworthy and distributed passport." (http://openpassport.me/?page_id=2)