It can be challenging to recruit individuals with digital identity and credential experience or build understanding within your organization to support a digital identity and credential program.
Whether you’re new to a digital credential or digital trust team and need to accelerate your learning curve, or your whole team is embarking on a digital credential journey, we have you covered.
DTLab has two courses, Digital Credentials 101 – Fundamentals and Digital Credentials 102 – Introduction to Implementation, designed to cater to varying levels of expertise and interest in digital credentials. These courses can be pursued individually or combined for a comprehensive learning experience, providing foundational knowledge and advanced insights into the digital credentials domain.
From executives who need high-level knowledge, to lead implementers who must stay up-to-date with the latest best practices, these courses aim to level-set the understanding and to expedite participants’ learning trajectory for digital identity and digital credentials.
Why take these courses?
- Understand digital identity and credentials at an introductory level
- Adopt a common language and terminology
- Be able to think critically about a digital identity and credential program
Digital Credentials 101 – Fundamentals
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Digital Credentials 102 – Introduction to Implementation (Units 6-9) |
Learning Objectives:
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| FORMAT: Half-Day 1: Units 1 to 3 Half-day 2: Units 4 & 5 See Course Outline for more details. |
FORMAT: 4 Half-Days: Units 6 to 9 See Course Outline for more details. |
COURSE OUTLINE: Digital Credentials 101
UNIT 1: Why We Need Digital Identity and Credentials – 90 MINS
Participants gain an understanding of:
- How we create trust in a transaction or interaction
- Why current digital trust practices are limited
- How digital identity and credentials make digital interactions and transactions safe, seamless, and secure.
UNIT 2: Foundations of Digital Identity and Verifiable Credentials – 60 MINS
Participants gain an understanding of:
- The 4 lifecycle stages of an identity or credential
- The 3 primary roles in the digital identity and credential ecosystem
- Which roles you are likely to occupy
- The importance of balancing ease-of-use, cost and the risk of harm
Participants are empowered to think critically about future security, privacy, client service and other program decisions.
UNIT 3: Digital Identity and Credentials in Canada and Around the World – 45 MINS
Participants gain an understanding of:
- The roles of the public, private and non-profit sectors in the digital credential ecosystem
- The relevant laws governing digital identity and credentials
- The importance of good digital identity and credentials
UNIT 4: Privacy – 75 MINS
Participants gain an understanding of:
- The core privacy principles
- That privacy must be designed in, not bolted on
- The way different identity models enable or limit the privacy of individuals.
- The connection between privacy laws and digital identity.
UNIT 5: Levels of Assurance – 75 MINS
Participants:
- Comprehend the concept of Levels of Assurance (LoA)
- Recognize the role of LOAs in risk mitigation for identity and credential management
- Understand how to achieve different LoAs
- Recognize appropriate scenarios for their application.
COURSE OUTLINE: Digital Credentials 102
UNIT 6: Program Design and Implementation – 3 HOURS
Participants
- Feel empowered to get started with implementing, using and/or accepting digital credentials
- Have a sense of what their organization will be issuing and/or verifying
- Have some specific details planned out for their organization to assist them in getting started.
UNIT 7: Governance, Identity Ecosystems and Frameworks – 3 HOURS
Participants gain an understanding of:
- How digital credentials support existing ecosystems
- The key characteristics of digital credential ecosystems
- The role of trust frameworks in facilitating strong and trusted ecosystem operations
- Where we are headed with interoperability and trust frameworks
UNIT 8: Building Blocks for Digital Identity Solutions – 3 HOURS
Participants:
- Understand the fundamental technical building blocks of the digital identity and credentials ecosystem.
- Have a sense of how particular features of digital identity and credentials ecosystems can be used.
- Can adopt a common language and terminology to discuss both technical and business implications
UNIT 9: Technologies and Specifications – 3 HOURS
Participants gain an understanding of:
- The notion of standards and open standards
- The various standards organizations; international and national
- The technical standards relevant to digital identity and credentials provided by those organizations, and their field of application
Recommended Participants
- Individuals new to a digital trust team wanting to accelerate their learning curve
- Teams looking to level up together*
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- Executive Champion*
- Program strategic lead*
- Product/Project Managers
- User and stakeholder research lead
- Process Development/ Business Analyst
- Legal/Policy*
- Privacy*
- Architecture*
- Security*
- Developers
- User Experience/Service Designers and Testers
- Communications
- User story/use case representatives
- Client Support
* When purchasing training for a team it is highly recommended that the starred (*) positions attend for the team to achieve all three learning objectives. Executive Champions are recommended for units 1-3.
