Jim Goodell: @Kimhd - I will scribe today ✪

Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/join ✪

Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request ✪

Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/ ✪

Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/ ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Project part of phase 1 of Ed Blockchain project ✪

Kerri Lemoie: What is going in in the ecosystem to inform a challenge, to be launched soon ✪

Kerri Lemoie: 40 Entities/experts interviews, lit review, online research ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Findings - 70 active initiatives, many in pilot stages, many academic and digital credentials, blockcerts ✪

Joshua Marks: I was supposed to scribe today, but got waylaid. WHo is scribing? ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Newer efforts using hyper-ledger, portfolios, CVs, prof. evaluations, identity protection, etc. ✪

Kerri Lemoie: This is a top priority - many understand this is important, and 2nd big theme was life-long-learning ✪

Kerri Lemoie: 3Rd theme - connecting ecosystems ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Many credentials not being used, need more success in leveraging power of connected ecosystems ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Underuse of digital credentials...lot of issuing, not use ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Questions remain - what does it mean to control? ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Digital divide - 29% dont't have smart phones, 46% don't have computers...need to consider who can't access digital creds. ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Can we find ways to pilot with groups that don't currently have access ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Standards still in development...good we are workingnn together to move forward. ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Privacy by design ✪

Kerri Lemoie: More adoption in higher ed than in K12 (some transcript uses in high schools)... Question is what value this brings beyond the status quo ✪

Victoria Feng: How long will it take for usage to take off? ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Open Badges has been in existence over a decade and is still underutilized... pilots for a couple more years, then not sure ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Directory of efforts: https://usedgov.github.io/blockchain/directory ✪

J. Philipp Schmidt: Asking about tension between centralized platform business models vs. decentralized models and self-sovereign ✪

J. Philipp Schmidt: Thank you! ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Business models not yet fully considered for decentralized...pilots often in private networks ✪

Kim Hamilton Duffy: What problems do solutions solve... interesting that many pilots are in private networks... What was your read on nuance behind "why" using blockchain? ✪

Loïc Jeannin: I'd like to ask a question, what is the process ? :) ✪

Kerri Lemoie: I think many are looking at centralized models, considering characteristics of blockchain that are useful (e.g. verification), but not enough use cases ....then can consider how ✪

Kim Hamilton Duffy: Recommendation from report: focus on ecosystems ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Other main use case is to encourage use of standards ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Greenlight is a private network that is working well because it improves processes for students, e.g to apply for college ✪

Kerri Lemoie: In Open Badges we said "It's not about the badge" , about how it is used ✪

Kim Hamilton Duffy: Q about Dalas Comm. College and Greenlight ✪

Kerri Lemoie: Joe May (sp?) started with seeing challenges for students to apply for multiple colleges ✪

Kim Hamilton Duffy: Interesting to see use case around student needs ✪