1.9 dTVET

distributed Technical and Vocational Education and Training, A-I-P, Skillset depreciation

include CDMX 2020 write-up & rant here

What is it?

A framework to meet the Capacity building and readiness goals set by communities of practice. It outlines the Fundamental Domain Competencies needed for a given scope of work, the method and means to build & demonstrate them, and whose authority is needed to verify each. This process can be adapted to meet the credentialing schema of more mature organizations with existing performance standards & rubrics; but was conceived of as a way for less-established organizations to develop & implement their own Standard-Operating-Procedures and Safe-Work-Practices from the ground up.

How does it happen?

Formalization begins with the clear intention to do so by a Community of Practice (mediated via our Community Governance Process). What follows is the solicitation of Procedural-knowledge from those most experienced/proficient in their field (as measured by aptitude amongst their peers via our Social Recognition Software). Then a consolidating of this collective know-how into a formal Knowledge-model and credentialing schema (another Community Governance Process), which can be disseminated to those in the field at large. (A process that can be repeated at varying intervals)

Why distributed?

Given that skill sets, know-how, and productive capacities are not diminished over time but improved by iteration; our approach to TVET is informed more by Biology than Epistemology. We assume a non-zero-sum, living model of Knowledge that benefits from cross-pollination between variations in problem solving tactics & heuristics. And that this essential diversity is better preserved through a distributed-heterarchy than a that monolithic-hierarchy.