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Archives for November 2021

Quoted in Consumer Reports article on COVID Certificates

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How to Prove You’re Vaccinated for COVID-19

You may need to prove your vaccination status for travel or work, or to attend an event. Paper credentials usually work, but a new crop of digital verification apps is adding confusion.

Kaliya Young, an expert on digital identity verification working on the COVID Credentials Initiative, is also concerned that the rush to digitize important documents—including health cards and electronic driver’s licenses—will result in faulty designs.

“I’m happy about the digitization—just not happy about the failure to be discerning in those choices pushed by health IT people who don’t care about privacy pushing static QR codes like SMART Health Cards,” she says. Young says static QR codes can easily be copied by anyone who has access to them, and perhaps used by someone who is not the owner. “We will be stuck with bad systems that have baked within them privacy-infringing defaults.” 

Is it all change for identity?

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Opening Plenary EEMA’s Information Security Solutions Europe Keynote Panel

Last week while I was at Phocuswright I also had the pleasure of being on the Keynote Panel at EEMA‘s Information Security Solutions Europe [ISSE] virtual event. We had a great conversation talking about the emerging landscape around eIDAS and the recent announcement that the EU will work on a digital wallet and open standards for Europe.

Here is a link to the video if the embed isn’t working.

ISSE Opening Plenary

Cohere: Podcast

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I had the pleasure of talking with Bill Johnston who I met many years ago via Forum One and their online community work. It was fun to chat again and to share for the community management audience some of the latest thinking on Self-Sovereign Identity.

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Kaliya Young is many things: an advocate for open Internet identity standards, a leader in the identity space – including hosting the Internet Identity Workshop, a published author, and a skilled Open Space facilitator.

On this episode of the Cohere podcast, Kaliya joins Bill to discuss the history of online identity, what events led us to the consolidation of identity into a few centralized platforms, and what steps we need to take to recover and protect our online identities.

COVID & Travel Resources for Phocuswright

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I’m speaking today at the Phocuswright conference and this post is sharing key resources for folks who are watching/attending who want to get engaged with our work.

The Covid Credentials Initiative where I am the Ecosystems Director is the place to start. We have a vibrant global learning community striving to solve challenge of common standards for covid credentials and health passes.

We have a Travel Summit Dec 1 & 2

As more and more governments adopt major COVID certificate standards to reopen borders, the travel industry is working hard to catch up on their technology to meet the evolving travel requirements. However, there is still no shortage of complaints from travelers about their cumbersome international travel experiences. 

Our community has been working within Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) to support the implementers of COVID credential solutions with a particular focus on facilitating interoperability among technology standards while preserving the privacy of individual data. At this critical juncture of global reopening, LFPH and Affinidi, a leading player in the space, are bringing key actors from the travel industry and technology vendors who are serving the travel industry together, to share and discuss:

  • What technology solutions are in use to issue, process, manage and verify COVID certificates along the journey for international travelers, from before they leave home to their arrival at the hotel at their destination
  • How they navigate and implement the complicated health policies and travel rules
  • What the key challenges they are facing to provide a safe and smooth travel experience, including major technology and policy gaps that the LFPH/CCI community can help address

The agenda and speakers will be announced soon. Grab your seat today!

APAC Edition Dec 1

EU/US Edition Dec 2

We collaborated with Good Health Pass Collaborative on developing the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint within the Trust over IP Foundation.

We at CCI are keen to continue this work and get travel happening together and welcome more active participation from the travel industry. Please join us!

There is also the Travel and Hospitality Special Interest Group at the Decentralized Identity Foundation it was this group that inspired and started work within the Trust over IP working group to develop a hospitality addendum.