#5: The One with The Future of Trust
In our last issue, we shared our work on Critical Incident Training with Greenpeace, endorsement practices using Open Badges, and a podcast episode featuring Matt Jukes.
This time around, we’ve got another post about endorsement by Doug Belshaw which discusses trust networks, one from Laura Hilliger on the Open Recognition Toolkit we’re developing, and a podcast episode featuring Krystal Rawls, Ph.D.
Let’s dive in!
The Future of Trust in Professional Networks
WAO is currently exploring ways to use endorsement using Open Badges. This post is about using badges for recognition in professional networks, particularly in cooperative communities. We discuss three key developments: an interdisciplinary focus on our core priority areas, new partnerships with worker cooperatives, and technological advances in the Open Badges standard.
Tao of WAO podcast
In the fifth episode of Season 7 of our podcast, we talk with Prof. Krystal Rawls about AI and Open Recognition practices.
Get it wherever you get your podcasts, or stream via SoundCloud below.
Unlocking the Power of Open Recognition
The Open Recognition Toolkit (ORT) is a community-driven project aimed at making Open Recognition accessible to everyone. Unlike traditional credentialing, Open Recognition is a holistic approach that allows individuals and communities to define their own frameworks and labels for skills and talents. The toolkit will offer practical examples, templates, and guides to help people implement Open Recognition in various contexts.
📡 Signals
Links from around the web about things we think are (or could be) important relating to our work, and of wider interest to readers:
- One big reason webinars suck (Bryan Alexander) — a friend of WAO takes webinars to task for treating audiences as passive recipients and failing to engage them in meaningful ways. Bryan suggests that hosts should consider other formats like pre-recorded videos if they’re not willing to facilitate active audience participation.
- UK antitrust regulator lays out seven AI principles (The Verge) — the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has outlined seven principles to guide the regulation of AI foundation models, focusing on accountability, access to resources, business model diversity, and anti-competitive behaviour. The principles aim to foster competition and consumer protection, and will inform ongoing dialogues with stakeholders including tech companies and consumer groups.
- Bard Can Now Connect to Your Google Apps (Artificial Corner) — Google’s AI model now offers new features that allow it to connect with Google apps like Gmail, Docs, and Drive. This enables users to perform tasks without manual copy-pasting. Additionally, Bard’s responses include a “Google it” button for fact-checking and the ability to continue conversations shared through public links.
👋 That’s it for this week! Don’t forget to share with your colleagues, etc.
