Result - Funded ✅

Problem

There is a lack of verifiable credentials that allow people to verify their skills and showcase them to the community

Solution

Integrate new and existing solutions for verifying skills to help the community build a form of reputation using Atala PRISM

Overview

In fund 6 two proposals got funded that have led to this proposal for a project based learning exercise for creating verified skill based credentials. The first relevant proposal is community credentials that got funded to help create a bottoms up community approach for creating use cases that help with Atala Prism adoption and its education. The second is Universal Skills Authentication that will be providing an open protocol for universal authentication of individual skills.

The community would benefit from collaborating on a project based learning exercise to integrate the Universal Skills Authentication proposal into a skills based credential example. Likely candidates for the skill to focus on could be Haskell, Plutus or Atala Prism due to their importance in the Cardano ecosystem. In execution of this proposal the project team would look provide a way for the community to verify these relevant skills and be issued a credential to showcase to the community.

Project based learning

Atala PRISM is new technology with no current implementations or easy educational courses. It became clear that the fund 6 community credentials proposal was well suited as a form of project based learning. Due to this opportunity to help with education this proposal will be executed in a project based learning environment to maximise collaboration and education within the community.

Gimbalabs is a community project focussed on project based learning who have already been working on Plutus based projects to help the community learn about smart contracts in Cardano. This environment is the perfect home for also exploring and learning about Atala PRISM in a collaborative setting. By collaborating on the proposal in a group setting the education on how to use Atala PRISM can be maximised and shared between the contributors and also to the wider ecosystem with recordings, examples and documentation.