What England’s new vaccine passport could mean for covid tech’s next act
Almost exactly a year ago, software developers rushed to build technologies that could help stop the pandemic. Back then, the focus was on apps that could track whether you’d been near someone…
Exposure Notification Technology in the US: A One Year Reflection
It’s been over a year since teams around the world began launching exposure notification systems (EN). Given this milestone, it is an opportune time to look back over what we’ve learned from…
Vaccine Passports: What You Need to Know After Your COVID-19 Shot
You’ve likely heard that companies are now developing vaccine passports—also called immunity passports or vaccine certificates—to verify a person’s COVID-19 vaccination status, latest test result, or antibody test result. So you may soon be…
MIT Technology Review: “Got your covid shots? You might have to prove it.”
As covid vaccines roll out in a handful of countries, the next question has become: How do people prove they’ve been inoculated? For months, this conversation—and the ethical questions any “vaccine passport” system…
NBC: “The next vaccine challenge: Building a workable ‘passport’ app”
The Biden administration said this week that it won’t build a national vaccination app, leaving it to the private sector to create mobile digital passports that can prove people have been vaccinated…
WNYC: “What to Know About New York’s ‘Vaccine Passport'”
New York recently launched a vaccine passport called the “Excelsior Pass.” Brian Behlendorf, general manager of Blockchain Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation of Public Health, talks about what it is,…
Starting Friday, New Yorkers will be able to pull up a code on their cellphone or a printout to prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 or recently tested negative for the virus that…
CNN: “Biden administration helping develop standards to prove vaccination”
The Biden administration is working on creating a set of standards for people to prove they’ve been vaccinated against Covid-19, according to an administration official.
Bloomberg: “Building a Covid Travel Passport Is a Serious Tech Challenge”
When Philippe Srour and his wife, Laurence, took an Air France flight to Paris from San Francisco in mid-March, they were given a novel opportunity to escape some of the madness of…
LFPH Updates Asia Pacific on Progress and Plans
In February 2021 it was a pleasure for me to moderate an expert panel, discussing how Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) is building, securing and sustaining open source software to help public…