What is this animal? Perspectives on Digital Student Data Digital StudentStudent Data, Digital Student Data Portability and the Groningen Declaration NetworkNetwork

Presentation for SAQA’s “Building Trust: P ti G i Q lifi ti i Af iPromoting Genuine Qualifications in Africa through Effective Verification” seminar, 24-25 November, Pretoria

Herman de Leeuw, secretary,

Groningen Declaration Network

Outline of presentation1. A few words about DUO and myself2 The start of it all2. The start of it all3. A solution? But how about identification?4. When things start to take off5 Unfolding of a business case5. Unfolding of a business case6. What’s the secret recipe?7. Engaging more players8 Putting ideas into action8. Putting ideas into action9. Possible further developments10. Contact data

1 - A few words about DUO and myself

Country, organization and background • Netherlands, a trade country with strong international

orientation and substantial immigration rates• Working with DUO, the Dutch national examinations and

funding agency and by extension, the Dutch “educational student data depository”student data depository

• Involved in credential evaluation and recognition issues from 1990 onwards first with Nuffic from 2001 onwards with DUO1990 onwards, first with Nuffic, from 2001 onwards with DUO

• Trained at National Police Academy as Forensic Document ResearcherResearcher

• Strong interest in authenticity of data and combating fraud• Promotes Shifting the Burden of Proof: Moving away fromPromotes Shifting the Burden of Proof: Moving away from

Document Traffic towards Data sharing

2 The start of it all fake documents2 – The start of it all – fake documents

Yo ’re not going toYou’re not going to buy this

Not keen on forgeriesg

Creating your own di l ddiploma and pass yourself off as an Afghan military medical specialistmilitary medical specialist - an ophthalmologist(a real case in my office, (a ea case y o ce,way back in the early 2000’s)

Concerns about identification

What’s so bothering?What s so bothering?

• Anxiety about claimed educational attainment

• Anxiety about claimed identityH t t bli h th f t th d• How to establish the facts on the ground with students from the other side of the globe?

3 - A solution? But how about identification?Iraqi MOHE site: admitted 1st year studentsIraqi MOHE site: admitted 1st year students

HEC Degree Attestation System, access via Passport/stamp/CNIC (comp nat’l ID card)Passport/stamp/CNIC (comp. nat l ID card)

NZQA: Learner Login

Up to scratch? As long as no one else has your NSNyour NSN …

4 – Nothing beats a swift lift off …