"Open Badges is the name of a group of specifications and open technical standards originally developed by the Mozilla Foundation with funding from the MacArthur Foundation. The Open Badges standard describes a method for packaging information about accomplishments, embedding it into portable image files as a digital badge, and establishing an infrastructure for badge validation."

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IMS Global has been working with the Mozilla Foundation and Collective Shift/LRNG to help ensure the sustainability of the future Open Badges ecosystem and as of January 2017, IMS Global has assumed responsibility for the evolution of the Open Badges specification. This is good news to the badging community as IMS will continue to focus on the growth, usability, security, and expressiveness of Open Badges.

In August of 2018, Mozilla announced it would no longer be supporting the Backpack and they selected Badgr to migrate existing accounts and badges to the Badgr platform. As of July 2019, this work will be completed.

The Badgr Team is committed to furthering the Open Badges specification and looking at new and innovative ways badges can be used to enhance learning, promote skills and connect people. Get in touch with us if you want to get involved!