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Our Mission
The T3 Innovation Network's mission is to enable the digital transformation of the talent marketplace by promoting data interoperability and harmonization across diverse stakeholders, including: employers; education, training, and credentialing providers; government agencies; and technology partners so learners and workers can better pursue education and employment opportunities.
We strive to:
make all learning count
enable competencies and skills to function like currency
empower learners and workers with data
Resources
T3 Network Resources
Publication
April 2020
Model Roles & Processes in Standards Development: Implications for Public-Private Collaboration
by
T3 Innovation Network
Publication
April 2022
Inclusive Design Principles for Learning and Employment Records: Co-Designing for Equity
by
Digital Promise
Publication
December 2019
Public-Private Standards Development and Use by Government
by
T3 Innovation Network
Publication
November 2022
Shared Infrastructure for Skills-Based Hiring and Advancement
by
T3 Innovation Network
Publication
September 2020
Learning and Employment Records: Progress and the Path Forward
by
American Workforce Policy Advisory Board
Publication
March 2022
T3 Innovation Network Guidelines
by
T3 Innovation Network
Use Case
July 2020
Learning Employment Record Use Case Landscape v2.0
by
T3 Innovation Network
Publication
May 2021
JDX: A Schema for Job Data Exchange
by
T3 Innovation Network
Tool
September 2023
Rework America Alliance Employer Toolkit For Skills-Based Hiring
by
Markle Rework America Alliance
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Networks & Workgroups
When you hit "Join" you can choose which groups you'd like to participate in, or you can join the parent T3 Network without joining groups. Joining the T3 Network means joining a community of workforce professionals, employers, educators, policymakers, technology makers, nonprofit leaders, activists, and other volunteers working together to bring change for good through infrastructure and collaboration. Our work is international, vendor-neutral, and conducted under the
CC BY 4.0 Creation Commons license
As a member, you will receive updates on meetings, publications, use cases, tools, events, and other resources on how stakeholders and technologies can work together to improve outcomes for learners and workers. Membership is public and free of cost. Members can volunteer to lead or contribute to networks, workgroups, and projects and share materials for T3 Network use and distribution. Active participation is not required.
Networks
Making Skills Data Available and Useful
Open Competency Network (OCN)
Increasing the discovery and use of skills and competencies to power the talent ecosystem at scale. Making skill and competency data publicly accessible, machine-actionable, openly-licensed, and searchable across organizations.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
Empowering Individuals with Their Own Data
Learning and Employment Records Network
Piloting and establishing equitable and inclusive best practices for the creation and sharing of secure and standards-based records containing education, training, work, and individually acquired skills and knowledge.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
Achieving Interoperability Through Standards
Data and Technology Standards Network
Catalyzing for collaborative incubation and adoption of standards-based specifications and services that enable the learning and employment ecosystem.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
Improving and Using Job and Employment Data
Jobs and Workforce Data Network
Improving how employers and their HR vendors develop, organize, and share standards-based jobs and workforce data to create value for public and private stakeholders. Encouraging the use of this labor market information for skills-based hiring and advancement.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
Workgroups
Advancing Open Competencies Network
Review the status of the OCN search and retrieval prototype and the DESM tool; identify use cases; make advocacy recommendations, and continuously identify requirements for refining and scaling the decentralized, standards-based skills and competency retrieval service infrastructure.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
LERN Presentation Scenarios Workgroup
Explore use cases including applying for employment or formal credentialed education, the use of LER Verifiable Credential presentations in the context of employment portals, and requirements for leveraging self-issued/third-party tamper evident endorsements.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
DTSN Market Signals Steering
Provide expert insights as key representatives of public and private sector agencies, departments, bureaus, institutions, and businesses as to the needs in the talent marketplace that standards and technology might improve; explore current realities and future possibilities for the technology-enabled learning and employment ecosystem.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
JWDN Stakeholder Steering Workgroup
Compile, develop and advocate for stakeholder use cases, create an open forum for coordinating and aligning related initiatives and projects, promote the design and testing of job and workforce data applications, and identify technical issues.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
OCN Technical Advisory Workgroup
Manage all technical development, maintenance and enhancement of the OCN search and retrieval service, associated data stores and applications in alignment with the Network-identified Use Cases. The TAW will include interactions with, and oversight of the execution of technical development Project Plans as well as contracted vendors assigned to those Plans.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
LERN Adoption Barriers Workgroup
Identify the challenges within talent pipeline workflows that inhibit systemic adoption of LERs. To do so the workgroup will parse the complex pathways LERs need to traverse to generate use cases that reflect pragmatic, focused solutions.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
DTSN Technical Steering Workgroup
Review outputs from the Market Signals Steering Workgroup; identify opportunities for collaboration across standards organizations that address market signals; recommend collaborative workgroups or projects to be undertaken by members of the DTS Network; review progress of technical initiatives of the DTSN.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
JWDN Technical Workgroup
Review technical issues, promote the development and use of data and technology standards, develop public-private data collaborative models for demonstration projects, provide guidance on the development and use of competency and skill frameworks.
Wiki
Docs
Github
Charter
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Digital Credentials
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Future of Resumes
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Jobs and Workforce Data
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Interoperability
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Digital Identity
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Learning & Employment Records
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Skills, Competencies, & Frameworks
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