Digital Credentials Consortium

Building the Digital Credential Infrastructure For The Future

The mission of the Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC) is to create a trusted, distributed, and shared infrastructure that will become the standard for issuing, storing, displaying, and verifying academic credentials, digitally. The DCC focuses on the learner enabling them to retain primary control over their credentials and allows credentials to be verified without consulting the original issuer or needing to be mediated by vendors.

DCC is focusing on developing crypotographically secure envelopes and the system that provides safe delivery and storage of multiple envelopes—similar to the postal service for mail. Within the envelope is a document, like the diploma a university issued to a graduate, a program certificate, or a granular expression of competencies mastered by a learner.

DCC activities span technical development, implementations at member institutions, leadership in standards bodies W3C Verifiable Credentials for Education Community Group, and community support.

The MIT team is coordinating the activities of the DCC, co-leading the W3C Verifiable Credentials for Education Working Group and developing software and infrastructure to enable a digital credentials future.