Following the 2022 GDN Annual Meeting a working group was established to support the GDN’s vision of student mobility through trusted electronic data exchange, integration, open standards, and interoperability.

The Working Group’s planned deliverables include the following:

• Consult an expert panel of GDN members and experts in technology, data privacy, and international credential exchange to understand the current and planned efforts to promote interoperability of digital credentials (by April 2023);  
• Develop a white paper describing principles of interoperability of digital credential portability (by August 2023) that will provide a framework and recommendations for exploring new technologies that enable data sharing while promoting individual agency, security, and privacy by design;
• Develop recommendations for future GDN activities and collaborations to advance credential portability through technology interoperability (August 2023);
• Present findings from the expert panel, white paper, and recommendations for future GDN activities during GDN Jordan (October 2023); and 
• Develop recommendations for a conference workstream at GDN Jordan that will expose GDN signatories, conference attendees, and a broad range of interested stakeholders to examples of promising initiatives and technology solutions that advance credential interoperability (due as appropriate to the timelines for submission of papers for the Jordan GDN conference).

At the time of inception the Working Group consists of;

David Moldoff, CEO, Academy One (Co-chair)

Sharon Leu, Jobs for the Future (Co-chair)

Koichi Nakasaki, Director, GDN

Takis Diakoumis, CTO, Digitary

Victoriano Giralt, Director of Innovation, University of Malaga

David Haynes, President, IEE

Joanne Duklas, Executive Director, GDN

Simone Ravaioli, Director, Digitary

Jan Joost Norder, Product Owner, DUO

Questions regarding the work of this group can be directed to Joanne Duklas, Executive Director, Groningen Declaration Network at [email protected]

Coordinated by Jelger de Boer, Consultant on Business Management and on Quality Assurance, DUO (Netherlands) 

and with members 

• Tessa Mouha, AHOVOKS, Department of Education and Training, Flanders (Belgium);
• Per Zettervall, Director of the System Management and Operations Department at the Swedish Council for Higher Education UHR (Sweden) 
• and Cheryl Darrup-Boychuck, INTCAS USA.

Chair: Ricardo Torres, CEO/President, National Student Clearinghouse (USA).

Chair: Victoriano Giralt, Past President, Groningen Declaration Network, Universidad de Málaga (Spain);

• • Members: 
    • Cheryl Darrup-Boychuck, Chief Architect, FundsV (USA_; 
    • Jacqui Elson-Green, Higher Ed Services (Australia; 
    • and with as resource person Joy Leighton, Director of Communications and Web Strategy Stanford University (USA)

The Task Force Mid Term Vision 2020 served an important function in broadening support among the participants of the network for the transition of the GDN from a virtual network to the present foundation. Starting on 20 December 2016, when the Board of Directors legally came in its own right, the work of the Task Force has been transferred to the Board fo Directors. It is with gratitude that the Board recognizes the work undertaken by the Task Force

Chair: Michael Sessa, President/CEO, PESC;
Members:

• • • Mikael Berglund, Umea University/Ladok system architect (Sweden); 
    • Doug Falk, CIO, National Student Clearinghouse (USA); 
    • Valère Meus, Coordinator, Erasmus without Paper project & International Relations Expert, University of Ghent (Belgium); 
    • Neil Robinson, Chair, DSD (Digital Student Data) Reference Group & Executive Director, Academic Services and Registrat, University of Melbourne (Australia) 
    • Michael Zhang Zhiyuan, CHESICC and member of the GDN Executive Committee; and as observers: 
    • Victoriano Giralt 
    • Herman de Leeuw.

The Pilots Task Force managed the I.D.E.A. Hub, an online moderated self-service self-description database that serves as a depository of ongoing pilots and initiatives world-wide. The I.D.E.A. Hub showcases these pilots with a view to facilitating the connection between piloting arganizations and interested stakeholders.

Co-chairs: 

• • • Dik van der Wal, Manager International Services, Duo and Head, Netherlands Europass consortium; 
    • Kathleen Massey, Associate Vice President (Students), University of Lethbridge, Canada.

This was the first GDN Task Force to have produced its deliverable, the Statement of Ethical Principles which can be consulted here. The Groningen Declaration Executive Committee would like to express its deep gratitude to the Task Force.

Chair: dr. John Yopp, CIEE, Council on International Educational Exchange (USA); 

Members:

• • • Mtro. Guillermo Pablo Lopez Andrade, Secretaría de Educación Pública (Mexico); 
    • Andrew Cormack, JISC (United Kingdom); 
    • Mike Reilly, AACRAO (USA)
    • Michael Zhang Zhiyuan, CHESICC (China)