EU Digital COVID Certificate – Understanding the Global COVID Certificate Landscape

October 12, 2021 By Lucy Yang

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

October 12, 2021 By Lucy Yang

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

October 8, 2021 By Brian Behlendorf

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 

September 28, 2021 By Carly Driggers

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,…

Keys to Deploying Rapid Response Software in a Crisis: Lessons Learned Building Software for COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programs

September 21, 2021

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

September 14, 2021 By Trevor Butterworth, Cardea

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

September 8, 2021 By Elle Marcus

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

August 24, 2021 By Jenny Wanger

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

August 16, 2021 By Elissa Redmiles

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.

July 23, 2021

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…