Creative EdTech advisor with a portfolio of diverse experiences founding and contributing to the advancement of digital credentials and open standards initiatives for the digital transformation of international higher education.
Interests:
- Digital Credentials
- Open Standards / Interoperability
- Open Badges
- Microcredentials
- Higher Education
Simone Ravaioli is currently Director of Strategic Partnerships at Digitary, a leading credentialing platform in Higher Education globally. The company developed and maintains My eQuals (since 2017) - the digital credential platform in use by all the public Universities in Australia and New Zealand – and MyCreds (since 2020) - the Canadian National, a global credential wallet and trusted document exchange to transform post-secondary mobility in Canada.
Simone is a current member of the ESCO Maintenance Committee (2018 -2022) and of the inaugural EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum (2108 - 2020).
Simone additionally serves in the Advisory Board of the Open Recognition Alliance (2016 -), the Steering Committee of the Learning Economy Foundation (2020 -), and the Steering Board of the Admission and Recognition Expert Community within EAIE (2020 -). In 2021 he co-founded a new international network called Microcredentials Sans-Frontiérs.
In the standardization community he currently Chairs the IEEE Interoperable Learner Record (ILR) workgroup (2020) and is an active contributor to several open standards communities across various Standards Developments Organizations, like W3C, PESC, IMS Global, DIF, CEN.
In 2019 Simone is the recipient of the PESC Distinguished Service award for his long-standing contribution to interoperability in global student mobility.