Unlocking Digital Credentials for Educators across Europe.
How BCdiploma and walt.id enable educators like universities to adopt digital credentials based on Europe’s emerging digital identity standards.
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BCdiploma is a blockchain-based service for issuing 100% digital and secure credentials that has convinced over 100 universities in 18 countries.
The Challenge.
BCdiploma offers its customers “Digital Credentials' cutting-edge blockchain technology” to digitize academic degrees and credentials, and has decided to work hand-in-hand with walt.id on issues related to "Self-Sovereign Identity" or "SSI" (aligned with the emerging European Digital Identity Ecosystem: EBSI/ESSIF). BCdiploma’s leadership team realized that adopting SSI is a huge opportunity, because this new paradigm is on its way to becoming the new standard for digital identity, including any type of digital educational credentials.
As a result, BCdiploma which is very active in France (e.g. working with the University of Lille) has decided to adapt its products and extend them with SSI.
Given the variety of challenges - from the technical implementation to the design of easy-to-use solutions - BCdiploma has chosen to work with walt.id in order to build up knowledge and create real-world solutions quickly and effectively.
The Solution.
BCdiploma screened the market for solutions that would allow them to adopt SSI fast and without much complexity. Specifically, they looked for a solution that is
open source under a permissive license (e.g. Apache 2),
compliant with the EU’s new identity standards (EBSI, ESSIF),
easy to use and integrate,
complemented by expert support.
Walt.id was the only vendor that checked all the boxes and soon, BCdiploma will offer their +100 customers the ability to digitise, issue and verify any type of education credential (like education records, student IDs, ...) based on walt.id’s open source products.
The Results.
By using walt.id's solutions, BCdiploma estimates that it has saved about 6 months of ramp-up time, allowing it to consider an ambitious timeline for evolving its products and adopting SSI. Not to mention the value of maintained, robust and scalable open source libraries for production use in the future.
Also, BCdiploma has been able to quickly build up extensive knowledge about SSI (and ESSIF), supported by walt.id's customer success team.
Today, BCdiploma is even significantly contributing to walt.id’s open source libraries. For example, by driving the development of credentials for the education industry and a digital wallet, which will be used by universities across Europe.
“Working closely with the walt.id teams continually enriches our vision for Self Sovereign Identity. Their work is a serious and solid foundation for interacting with the EBSI ecosystem. We look forward to continuing our collaboration in the coming year around our ESSIF-Lab Academic Verifiable Credentials program.“
Luc Jarry-Lacombe
Co-Founder & CEO
BCdiploma
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About the companies.
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Walt.id develops Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) solutions for businesses and governments across industries.
Developers and organisations rely on our open source products as an easy and fast way to use Self-Sovereign Identity - including Europe’s new digital identity ecosystem based on the EU Blockchain and the EU SSI Framework (ESSIF).
To ensure client’s success, our industry-leading experts provide holistic services including from conception over the implementation of pilots and production system to enterprise support and managed cloud services.
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BCdiploma, the blockchain-based service for issuing 100% digital and secure credentials that has convinced over 100 universities in 18 countries.
Do you want to automate the creation and sending of diplomas, micro-credentials or certificates? For you, BCdiploma goes further than traditional credentialing platforms.
Strengthen your brand image, by designing your credentials: responsive, mobile-first and accessible via a simple URL link... and of course tamper-proof.
Enhance the employability (and satisfaction) of your students, with credentials that are valid for life, multilingual, easily shared and integrated with one click on LinkedIn.
Reduce your certificate management time by automating the issuing and sending of certificates from your data and IT management system.
BCdiploma digital credentials comply with the open standards Verifiable Credentials and Open Badges.
For more information visit www.bcdiploma.com.