E-Credentials/E-Certificates

Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Governance

Why in news?

  • The Government is developing the Electronic Skill Credential Standard (ESCS) Specification.

About:

  • Directorate General of Training (DGT), Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship proposes to issue digital ‘e-Credentials / e-Certificates’ which are freely portable for candidates and easily verifiable at scale by employers and job matching platforms but continue to allow print and other visual forms for human consumption.
  • This would enable candidates to verifiably state their skill levels with a high degree of trust in authenticity to aggregators, matchers, and employers. Now in the DGT ecosystem, all the certificates are ‘e-
    Certificates’, digitally signed.

e-Credentials:

  • e-Credentials are an electronic scheme-based standard for describing credentials data in a machine-readable format (JSON-LDrepresentation of RDFa- Resource Description Framework, a web standard) along with its printable human-friendly version to make credential exchange between digital agents open and reliable.
  • Certificates issued according to this specification can be aligned to one or more educational standards.
    They are secured using digital signatures.
  • These will also be pushed in DigiLocker.
  • This standard is an open standard, free to use, and does not cost anything extra to the Government or the student.

 

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