Founded in 2018, the Digital Credentials Commons (DCC) is a membership organization that fosters collaboration among universities aimed at developing an open, trusted infrastructure for issuing, storing, displaying, and verifying digital academic credentials. Hosted by Strada Education Foundation, its objective is to enable learners to share their academic credentials securely and easily across institutions and employers. DCC focuses on developing standards, protocols, and tools to ensure the interoperability and trustworthiness of digital credentials.

DCC is an institutional higher-education consortium, rather than a broad coalition of vendors, foundations, employers, and intermediary organizations. Membership eligibility is for nonprofit or state-funded higher education or postgraduate institutions. Membership currently includes 16 higher education/postgraduate institutions across eight countries. In alphabetical order, they include:

• Asia School of Business — Malaysia
• Delft University of Technology — Netherlands
• Georgia Institute of Technology — United States
• Harvard University — United States
• Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam — Germany
• Izmir University of Economics — Türkiye
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — United States
• Tecnológico de Monterrey — Mexico
• Technical University of Munich — Germany
• Universidad Autónoma de Chile — Chile
• University of California, Berkeley — United States
• University of California, Irvine — United States
• University of Lille — France
• University of Milano-Bicocca — Italy
• Western Governors University — United States

The 11 Core Members are currently Delft University of Technology, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Hasso Plattner Institute, MIT, McMaster, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Technical University of Munich, UC Berkeley, University of Milano-Bicocca, and Western Governors University.

Examples of DCC'S projects include:

• Learner Credential Wallet
  • Open source mobile wallet to store learner credentials
• VerifierPlus
  • Allows verification of credentials to be shared and accessed among users.
• Standards Support
  • Contributions and collaborative efforts with open standards bodies regarding interoperability around verifiable credentials
• Ecosystem Map
  • Learning and Employment Record (LER) Ecosystem Map
• Registries
  • DCC Member Registry: For DCC Member production issuers
  • DCC Pilot Registry: For DCC Member pilots
  • Community Registry: For community members, curated by the DCC
  • Sandbox Registry: For testing only

In July 2026, DCC rebranded to Digital Credentials Commons. Previously, it was known as the Digital Credentials Consortium. As part of the rebrand, the organization also became hosted by Strada Education Foundation.

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