WHAT’S NEW IN OBF AND OBP?
WHAT NEXT?

Some important topics in our development strategy
• Development in collaboration with our customers
(open innovation)
• Supporting creation of badge ecosystems
• Unlocking the potential of badges for their owners and
their communities
• Supporting talent and competence management with
badges
• Improving user experience

Supporting creation of badge ecosystems
• Network features
• Badge sharing
• Endorsements
• Aligning with competence frameworks
• Manual alignments
• ESCO integration (the European Classification of
Skills, Qualifications and Occupations framework)

External endorsements

Integration of ESCO in OBF
PRO level feature

Adding an ESCO alignment in a badge

Open Badge Passport
Recent and upcoming releases

Improvements in profile and pages

Milestone badges in OBP

Further development

Open Badge Factory
• Coming soon
• Usability improvements based on user feedback
• Possibility to deliver badges both as hosted badges and
standalone signed digital credentials (Pro level feature)
• Also on the development list
• Improvement of sub-organisations management
• Further development of badge applications
• Improvement of reports and management features

Open Badge Passport
• Under construction:
• Organisation accounts
• Mobile App
• Some other important development
• Improvement of search engine and usability (flow)
• External endorsements
• Earnable badges on the map
• Improvement of portfolio features
• Further development of Salava API (for integrations)
• “Sliced Passport” and development of the dedicated Passport

More information:
Eric.rousselle@obfsolutions.com
contact@openbadgefactory.com
@OBFactory_
@OBPassport