Our Letter to Washington D.C. on Verifiable Credentials and Vaccination Records
Today, LFPH published a letter to Jeffrey Zients, head of the White House’s cross-agency COVID-19 response team, copying many of the other senior leaders in the U.S. executive branch offices leading the…
Raconteur: “Vaccine passports: key to reopening or unfair and divisive?”
With the rollout of mass vaccination programmes against coronavirus in a number of countries, many are beginning to contemplate doing everyday things again, from going to the cinema to taking a holiday…
CNN: “If you want to travel next year, you may need a vaccine passport”
“I think where exposure notification ran into some challenges was more of the piecemeal implementation choices, lack of federal leadership … where each state had to go it alone and so each…
NBC: “Two tech groups say they’ll merge efforts on digital vaccine cards”
Two groups of technologists said Wednesday they were combining their work to speed up the development of digital vaccine cards, so that people may eventually be able to use a smartphone app…
LFPH extends exposure risk notifications playbook to privacy-driven vaccination credentials by hosting the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative Brian Behlendorf becomes new LFPH executive director New Public Health Authority commitments and membership investments New…
LFPH Announces Results of COVID Green and COVID Shield Security Audits
Earlier this year, the Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) began the process of performing third-party security audits for two COVID-19 exposure notifications apps. The audits were performed to improve the overall security…
Washington Post: “A covid-fighting tool is buried in your phone. Turn it on.”
The coronavirus surge is upon us, and your phone might be able to help. More than 160 million Americans have the ability to get pop-up notifications from local health authorities when they’ve personally spent…
EU Overcomes Exposure Notification Hurdle, Launches Interoperability Service
Building applications that alert people in Europe who have been exposed to others with COVID-19 will now be easier thanks to a recent development by a group of EU countries, led by…
We mourn the passing of Dan Kohn
Nov. 30 Update: The scholarship fund for Dan’s children is now available and we are also collecting donations to Wildlife SOS in his memory. You can learn more about both of these…
The Linux Foundation wants to help combat COVID-19 with free, open source apps to tell people when they’ve been exposed to the virus The Linux Foundation has a new Public Health group…