Digital Learning Passport · Sri Lanka Credentials that graduates own, and employers can verify.

The Digital Learning Passport is an open credential trust framework for Sri Lanka. It defines how universities issue learning records that graduates hold themselves and employers can verify, using existing international standards rather than a new national format.

It is not a credential service. It is a shared framework, developed with partner institutions in Sri Lanka, that sets out how local universities, graduates and employers adopt international credential standards consistently.

It is written around how Sri Lankan universities already award, record and correct qualifications. Because it rests on open standards, a record issued under it stays verifiable whichever tools or provider an institution chooses.

No. It does not define a new credential format. It builds on the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0, Open Badges 3.0 and the Comprehensive Learner Record 2.0, and defines what each party is responsible for when using them.

The graduate shares their record. The employer checks the university's digital signature on it. If the record was issued by that university and has not been altered, the check passes.

The employer does not need to call or email the university, and there is no third-party verifier in between.

A record that has been edited after issue, or that a university never issued, fails the signature check. Addressing credential fabrication is the first phase of the work.

The framework also sets out how an employer knows a signing key really belongs to the institution it names, for example because the key is published by the university itself.

Yes. The graduate holds the record, not only the institution, so access does not end with enrolment. They can keep it and share it for as long as they need it.

That is the intent. The framework defines how a graduate shares a scoped view with each recipient, for example a degree and its classification without the full transcript. How finely a record can be split depends on how the institution issues it, which the framework sets out.

Checking the signature does not require contacting the university. The verifier needs the university's public key, which is published and can be stored in advance, so the check itself can run offline.

Not at first. During a pilot, verifiable records are issued alongside a university's existing transcripts and certificates. Each institution decides how far and how fast to go.

Yes. The framework text is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). You can copy, adapt and translate it, including for commercial use, as long as you credit the source and say what you changed.

There is no production system yet. The framework is being drafted, one university partner is onboarded, and a reference prototype has been demonstrated on a public dataset. Universities interested in a pilot can get in touch now.

Nothing. Adopting the framework needs no licence, fee or registration, and the framework text is published under an open licence (CC BY 4.0). Institutions choose their own tools to issue records, and the framework does not depend on any particular product.

It is not a government programme. It is convened by Knivok Private Limited, an applied AI company in Colombo, working with partner institutions in Sri Lanka.

Knivok also builds commercial products that implement the framework; the framework is not dependent on any of them.