EU Digital COVID Certificate – Understanding the Global COVID Certificate Landscape
For an introduction to our Global COVID Certificate Series, please see this introductory post. The EU Digital COVID Certificate (EU DCC), originally called the Digital Green Certificate, was created by the European…
Understanding the Global COVID Certificate Landscape
It has been over a year since the hard-hit travel industry started using COVID certificate systems to resume limited business activity. More industries are voluntarily or involuntarily joining along as the global…
Welcoming Jim St. Clair, Executive Director
It is with great pleasure that I am happy to announce that Jim St. Clair will be joining LFPH as our new Executive Director. While I have been honored to head the…
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…
MIT Technology Review: Is the UK’s pingdemic good or bad? Yes.
Oscar Maung-Haley, 24, was working a part-time job in a bar in Manchester, England, when his phone pinged. It was the UK’s NHS Test and Trace app letting him know he’d potentially…