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Authors:
Christos Kontzinos
Ourania Markaki
Panagiotis Kokkinakos
Vagelis Karakolis
Stavros Skalidakis
John Psarras
Keywords: higher education; public sector; certification; human resource management; blockchain.
Abstract:
In today’s society, formal and non-formal education credentials play an important role not only for holders of such diplomas and degrees but also for human resource management processes in public and private organisations. However, the degree of digitization in the sector is lagging, as certificates are still paper based and verification processes are very time-consuming. While the first ICT solutions in these domains have been developed, they are still dependant on issuing organisations and manual processes. Blockchain is one technology that can be considered for developing trustworthy solutions for digital certificates, given its native characteristics for decentralisation, visibility and verification of transactions. Additionally, the computational intelligence found in analytics and decision support can help develop added value services while gamification can help develop more personalised approaches for the stakeholders of such domains. Under this context, the present publication presents QualiChain, an EU-funded project that aims to revolutionise the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with the labour market, policy making and public sector administrative procedures by disrupting the way accredited educational titles and other qualifications are archived, managed, shared and verified.
Pages: 16 to 20
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020
Publication date: March 22, 2020
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4367
ISBN: 978-1-61208-764-1
Location: Valencia, Spain
Dates: from November 21, 2020 to November 25, 2020