Member Profile Series: Ratio PBC gains new perspectives through LFPH community
Announcing Our Member Profile Series Open source has become the de facto way to build common infrastructure across industries. It started in enterprise tech but today has made its way across energy,…
By Eric Guroff (Ratio PBC) and Swati Shah Patel (Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies) Context Setting As the COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United States in Spring 2020,…
High turnout and success at Cardea interoperability hackathon
Teams from leading companies tested their identity products against a complete Cardea reference implementation, other teams, in a half-day virtual event. Participating companies will demonstrate results at a DemoDay virtual event on…
Report: COVID Credential Design Criteria
As vaccines started to become available, a major question began to pop up: will businesses require proof of vaccination status? Immediately post-vaccination, you were handed a small, handwritten card with your name…
Herald Project’s fast growth continues
The Herald Project has been one of LFPH’s fastest-growing projects, recently adding new code and contributors, and approved by our Technical Advisory Committee to become a Stage 3 project. Currently deployed in…
New research on how to effectively advertise COVID-19 apps
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, University of Maryland, and University of Michigan have released a preprint of a paper titled “Field Evidence of the Effects of Pro-sociality and…
Zoom in on the User Flow of the Global COVID Certificate Network
The Global COVID Certificate Network (GCCN) follows, operationalizes and adapts the recommendations of the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint (the “Blueprint) for governments and industry alliances who are working to safely reopen…
グローバルコロナ対策証明書開発コミュニティネットワークをスタート（GCCN）
This is a Japanese translation of the original blog post, “Introducing the Global COVID Certificate Network (GCCN)“. Many thanks to Kohei Kurihara, Co-founder and CEO of Privacy by Design Lab, for this…
Linux Foundation Public Health creates the Global COVID Certificate Network (GCCN)
June 8, 2021, San Francisco, CA: Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) today announces the launch of the Global COVID Certificate Network (GCCN) to facilitate the safe and free movement of individuals globally…
Introducing the Global COVID Certificate Network (GCCN)
Over the past few months, many governments have begun designing and implementing COVID certificate systems, including the recently-launched EU Digital COVID Certificate (formerly the EU Digital Green Certificate). We have been speaking…