Presentaion to the meeting of the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), of the International Standards Organization, Tuesday, January 21, 2020, UTS Sydney.
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The Australian National University introduced Micro-credentials procedures in October 2019 (Worthington, 2019).
During their career a worker may acquire hundreds of micro-credentials. These would need to be validated before the worker could undertake a specific job, or task. With the gig-economy, this may need to be done several times a day in seconds, in a country away from where the credentials were issued. This will require a system which can scale for billions of workers, securely, and be recognized by governments around the world. Blockchain implementation of micro-credentials could be aided by open source software for implementation, and open access education to teach its use.
The report, Blockchain Challenges for Australia (ACS, 2019), listed micro-credentials as a potential application for blockchain, requiring low computational power, a high volume of data storage and users, but low throughput (ACS, p 22, 2019).