The Groningen Declaration Network (GDN) is an international, non-profit, voluntary network of like-minded organizations and individuals that want to make digital learn data portable. The aim is that citizens worldwide can consult and share their educational data autonomously, with the expectation of fair recognition.  It does this by bringing together stakeholders from across what is called a Global Digital Student Data Ecosystem.

The GDN seeks common ground in best serving the academic and professional mobility needs of citizens worldwide by bringing together stakeholders in the digital student data ecosystem at its annual meetings.

Examples of GDN's work include:

• Digital Credentials Initiatives Monito (Version 0.5 )
  • A visualization tool to explore the range of technology models offered around the world. The platform provides information on the types of technology in use, the standards, the governance, and more.. Results are uploaded to the database on a monthly basis. Signatories are required to sign and demonstrate their commitment to the GDN Ethical Principles for data exchange to support learner and social mobility.

• R.U.S.T. Hub – Groningen Declaration Network
  • Each organization in the T.R.U.S.T. Hub is a GDN Signatory. Those identified as credential depositories have been sanctioned by the primary data source (an issuing institution) or a government authority.  The Network builds on the Groningen Declaration and wants to establish a global area of convergence on digital learner data depositories, while respecting their autonomy and diversity. It wants to look into privacy rights, ownership of data, identification, access, and forwarding/sharing of data, next to compatibility and comparability of data.

Resources

GDN | Digital Credentials

T.R.U.S.T. Hub