"A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to be prepared to give service in it." Juliette Gordon Low - Founder of Girl Scouts
A digital badge is a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality, or interest that can be earned in many learning environments. Open digital badging makes it easy for anyone to issue, earn, and display badges across the web—through an infrastructure that uses shared and open technical technical standards. HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) https://www.hastac.org/initiatives/digital-badges
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