WCI - World Certification Institute

World Certification Institute (WCI) is a global certifying body that grants credential awards to individuals as well as accredits courses of organizations. During the late 90s, several business leaders and eminent professors in the developed economies gathered to discuss the impact of globalization on occupational competence. The ad-hoc group met in Vienna and discussed the need to establish a global organization to accredit the skills and experiences of the workforce, so that they can be globally recognized as being competent in a specified field. A Task Group was formed in October 1999 and comprised eminent professors from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, and Singapore. The group proposed 2 broad categories of occupational certification. The first is a category of Accredited Practitioners, who have acquired adequate years of experience in a specified field of occupation in order to be recognized as globall...