Digital Skills in Artificial Intelligence Certified on Blockchain 

Blockchain revolutionizes the management of skills and certifications, offering transparency, authenticity, and simplified verification in education and beyond.

Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the way skills and certifications are managed in the education sector. The adoption of blockchain can bring numerous benefits, creating an ecosystem based on transparency, authenticity, and security of the certification and validation processes of skills. 
This ecosystem involves multiple stakeholders who are interested in ensuring the veracity of the data managed, creating a mechanism where data owners are incentivized to be part of it, gaining a competitive advantage over those who are not.

The actors in this ecosystem can be numerous, including:

– Professionals: They can notarize and certify their skills, gaining a competitive advantage in their business sectors and ensuring transparency for collaborations or new job opportunities.
– Companies: They can access transparent and traceable skills, reducing the risk of fraud and fake resumes.
– Universities and Training Institutions: They can use blockchain technology to issue immutable and unique certificates, reducing the risk of counterfeiting and increasing their credibility.
– Public Administration: It can verify skills during public tender processes without having to confirm data with the owners or the entities that issued the certificates.

Benefits of Blockchain in Education for Certifying Skills and Certificates:

– Transparency and Authenticity: Using blockchain to record skills and certificates ensures unprecedented transparency. Each transaction is permanently and immutably recorded, ensuring the impossibility of altering or falsifying data. This guarantees the authenticity of credentials and protects students, employers, and educational institutions from fraud and tampering.
– Simplification of Validation Processes: Blockchain notarization of skills and certificates greatly simplifies validation and verification processes. The information is accessible quickly and transparently, allowing users to directly and reliably verify the validity of credentials. This eliminates the time and costs associated with manual document verification, improving the overall efficiency of the education system.
– Portability and Accessibility: Blockchain makes credentials and certificates highly portable and accessible. Individuals can securely store their skills and certifications and present them directly to educational institutions and employers. This enhances mobility and flexibility in educational and professional contexts, allowing individuals to more effectively showcase their skills.
– Reduction of Counterfeiting Risks: Blockchain protects credentials from fraud and forgery, ensuring data security and integrity.
– Innovation: The adoption of blockchain promotes innovation in the education sector, encouraging the use of advanced technologies and more efficient processes.
– Trust: The transparency and authenticity guaranteed by blockchain help strengthen stakeholders’ trust in the skills certification system.
– Efficiency: The automated and secure processes offered by blockchain improve the overall efficiency of managing skills and certificates in the education sector.
– Credibility: Using blockchain increases the credibility and reliability of certificates issued by educational institutions, ensuring transparency and authenticity of the information.
– Sustainability: Thanks to blockchain, the skill registration system becomes more sustainable and environmentally friendly, reducing paper use and simplifying administrative processes.
– Greater Visibility: Using blockchain allows educational institutions to offer a more transparent and accessible skills registration service, increasing visibility and appeal for students and employers.
– Competitiveness: Educational institutions that adopt blockchain technology for skill registration can differentiate themselves from competitors, offering a more innovative and cutting-edge service.

Success Story: Own Your Business (#OYB) and ITHUM Notarize Participant Certificates with Blockchain

Success Story: Own Your Business and ITHUM Notarize Participant Certificates with Blockchain

Own Your Business and ITHUM recently collaborated to innovate the certification process for training courses, leveraging blockchain technology to notarize participants’ certificates. This initiative involved two high-profile training courses: “Auditor/Lead Auditor ISO/IEC 42001 Artificial Intelligence” and “Auditor/Lead Auditor ISO 22301”. The blockchain notarization of certificates brought numerous benefits in terms of security, transparency, and global recognition of the skills acquired by the participants.

The Project
Own Your Business, a company specializing in innovative solutions for training and skill development, partnered with ITHUM, an organization dedicated to professional training and certification. The goal was to implement a blockchain-based notarization system to ensure the authenticity and immutability of the certificates issued to course participants.

The courses involved in the project were:
– Auditor/Lead Auditor ISO/IEC 42001 Artificial Intelligence: A course that prepares professionals to conduct quality management system audits in artificial intelligence, according to the international ISO/IEC 42001 standard.
– Auditor/Lead Auditor ISO 22301: A course focused on business continuity management, training auditors according to the ISO 22301 standard to ensure organizational resilience.

Blockchain Implementation
To notarize the participants’ certificates, Own Your Business and ITHUM used the secure and transparent Ylium blockchain platform. Each issued certificate was recorded on this platform, creating a unique and immutable digital identity for each certificate. This process ensured that each certificate was easily verifiable and immune to forgery or tampering.
The collaboration involved some of the leading Italian blockchain companies, demonstrating how the technology can be effectively applied in the education sector. This approach not only increases transparency but also contributes to sustainability by reducing paper use and emissions associated with traditional certification processes.

#Benefits for Participants and Companies

Blockchain notarization provided several tangible benefits:
– Security and Immutability: Certificates recorded on the blockchain are protected from any attempt at forgery or alteration, ensuring that participants’ skills are recognized as authentic.
– Ease of Verification: Employers and educational institutions can easily verify the authenticity of certificates through a simple check on the blockchain platform, reducing time and costs associated with credential verification.
– Global Recognition: Certificates notarized on the blockchain are recognized globally, offering participants greater visibility and credibility in the international job market.
– GDPR Compliance: Blockchain ensures compliance with GDPR regulations, protecting participants’ personal data and ensuring that sensitive information is managed securely and transparently.

Through this #link, it is possible to verify the validity and authenticity of the certificate issued by the ITHUM training institution via the file, hash, or blockchain transaction. Below is one of the executed transactions:
Auditor/Lead Auditor ISO/IEC 42001 Artificial Intelligence Certificate
Document Hash: 0x04df981bfcc3f21160a807a7e77399de6b8a16d6d7197c4448d1b4fdcba17e1f