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Future of Education & Workforce Challenge Set

Welcome to the Future of Education & Workforce Challenge Set, sponsored by Job for the Future Foundation and Digital Credentials Consortium. This challenge set is part of the DIF Hackathon 2024.

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Key Objectives

Promote interoperability and adoption of decentralized identity standards

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Human-Centric Solutions

Demonstrate transformation possible with decentralized identity architectures

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Real-World Applications

Accelerate real-world use cases for decentralized identity

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Awareness

Growth, alignment with communities focused on similar challenges

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JFF Plugfest: Fostering Interoperability in Digital Credentials

Goals

  • Demonstrate functional interoperability of decentralized identity
  • Document interoperability “profiles”
  • Promote adoption of open standards in education and workforce

Standards

  • Verifiable Credentials (VCs) and Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)
  • Open Badges 3.0 standard
  • Credential exchange protocols (CHAPI, OpenID, etc.)

Artifacts

  • Credential issuance and verification playgrounds
  • Wallet implementations
  • Schemas

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Challenge Overview

Verifiable Learner/Worker IDs and Records Challenge

Powerful New VC Tools

Feature Enhancement

[Bonus Design Challenge] Establishing Credibility in Digital Credentials

Future of Education & Workforce Track

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Challenge 1 - Verifiable Learner/Worker IDs and Records

Student IDs

Demonstrate transformative potential of user-controlled data using Verifiable Credentials for Student IDs

Employee IDs

Use Verifiable Credentials for Employee IDs to showcase user-controlled data potential

Employment History

Explore applications such as applying for new jobs using employment history Verifiable Credentials

Essential Skills

Demonstrate essential skills and enable selective disclosure using Verifiable Credentials

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Challenge 2 - Powerful New VC Tools

Multiple Language Support

  • Enable cross-border mobility for education credentials
  • Build tool for constructing VCs in any language
  • Must use renderMethod attribute
  • Focus on non-Latin script support

Browser Integration

  • Improve convenience for displaying and verifying VCs
  • Build a browser plugin
  • Must use VC renderMethod attribute

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Challenge 3 - Feature Enhancement

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Learner Credential Wallet

Add support for VC renderMethod attribute. Enable rich displays of credentials in the application.

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VerifierPlus

Allow use of renderMethod attribute. Support rich displays, including PDF.

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Bonus Design Challenge

  • Establishing Credibility in Digital Credentials.
  • Context: Verifying digital credentials involves multiple checks.
  • Challenge: How to ensure human confidence in verification results?
  • Goal: Explore integration of VCs into organizational processes.
  • Focus: Human-understandable verification validity.

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Prizes

Challenge 1 Winner

$2,250

Challenge 2a Winner

$2,000

Challenge 2b Winner

$2,000

Challenge 3a Winner

$1,250

Challenge 3b Winner

$1,250

Bonus Challenge

$500

5 Honorable Mentions

$150 each

Total of $15,000 USD

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Additional prizes for 2nd & 3rd place

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See Hackathon site for details

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Submission Requirements

  • Open source (MIT license)
  • Meet JFF Plugfest technical interoperability standards:
  • For additional resources, visit the JFF Plugfest 3 site
  • Requirements for all tracks:
    • 3-minute video describing what the app does and provide a URL to a public code repository
    • Text description of the project’s features and functionality
    • Explanation of how requirements were used in the project

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Participate