We aim to develop and strengthen a decentralised accreditation system which empowers learning providers, permaculture and restoration practitioners, and the regenerative field as a whole to issue credentials in the form of ‘open badges’.

These badges can replace academic credentials, quality certifications such as ‘Organic’ or ‘Fairtrade’, attendance certificates for events, etc., and create entirely new streams such as greater recognition of experiential learning, better recognition of indigenous learning practices, and new monitoring and evaluation processes for land or social/community permaculture projects.

In all these steps iCAAFS is firmly rooted in permaculture ethics as well as an intention to embrace indigenous and decolonial forms of learning and knowing.

iCAAFS is at present developed to a minimum viable prototype which includes basic documentation of philosophy and use, prototype badges design, basic business plan, and testing of technology needed to implement.

We are now rolling out iCAAFS to stakeholders representing the most diverse use cases we can imagine in order to test its limitations and discover new possibilities; as well as co-design the detailed documentation and strategy with the end users.

We intend to set up an advisory board of indigenous and decolonial leaders to inform the direction and philosophy of the iCAAFS project and to strengthen indigenous education initiatives.