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Weekly Updates

December 9, 2022

🚀 From #cardea: Cardea met this week for an in-depth conversation with Cardea community member Kristy Gale, founder & CEO of HONOR Data Rights Management, on the technologies and devices used to collect athlete data and how personal information data privacy relates to the sports community. 🚢 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

December 2, 2022

:snow_cloud: This week, we have no updates. We wish you a happy holidays!

November 25, 2022

🦃 This week, we have no updates. We wish you a happy holidays!

November 18, 2022

:herald: For Herald:

  • Herald ran a 24 hour test for a new release, with an eventual release planned shortly!

:snow_capped_mountain: The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

November 11, 2022

🔮 For #cardea:

  • Cardea spent time this week reviewing the current state of Machine Readable Governance, rebranded to Decentralized Ecosystem Governance (DEGov). The group reviewed the new development happening under DIF as well as a demo of backend and front end tools. Cardea will cancel 11/24 due to the US Thanksgiving holiday and will regroup on 12/8.

🌟 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

November 4, 2022

🍎 For LFPH:

🍓 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

October 28, 2022

🌼 For LFPH:

  • Upcoming NOV 1 WEBINAR: "Taking Veterans Affairs to the Cloud: The VA Care Cloud Project" (November 1).
    • Join Rafael M. Richards, MD MS, architect at the Veteran’s Affairs Care Cloud (US Department of Veterans Affairs) for a webinar that dives into the VA’s VISTA Cloud system. The VISTA system serves as the backbone of the VA’s VA-CPRS EHR, conducting over 200 million daily transactions and serving over 380,000 VA staff and 1,500 facilities. The VA-CPRS EHR was the top-rated EHR among physicians in a 2016 EHR comparison conducted by Medscape. Register here. :hibiscus: For Cardea:
  • Cardea spent time this week reviewing the framework and status of the APIs that are be required for more comprehensive integration and the upcoming Cardea extension use cases (employment and school health information). Planning started for an upcoming webinar series to highlight guest speakers from a variety of healthcare verticals about the challenges communicating heath information and how verifiable credentials could help alleviate those challenges. All are welcome to join these conversations! Keep up to date on the #cardea channel! :herald: For #herald-general: The release of Herald was slightly delayed due to a bug on Android, but expect it to be out over the weekend! More updates coming soon.

🐝The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

October 21, 2022

:snow_capped_mountain: For LFPH:

  • OCT 26 WEBINAR: "The Next Generation of Neuro-Health Data Sharing" with Ontario Brain Institute.
    • Come learn from LFPH member Ontario Brain Institute about Brain-CODE, their neuroinformatics platform for federated data management, sharing and analysis. OBI is based in Canada and fosters a ‘team science’ approach for those living with brain disorders, involving researchers, clinicians, industry, patients, and their advocates. We recommend interested individuals from other health or PH areas to also attend this webinar for inspiration regarding (PHI) data sharing and management! Register here.
  • NOV 1 WEBINAR: "Taking Veterans Affairs to the Cloud: The VA Care Cloud Project" (November 1).
    • Join Rafael M. Richards, MD MS, architect at the Veteran’s Affairs Care Cloud (US Department of Veterans Affairs) for a webinar that dives into the VA’s VISTA Cloud system. The VISTA system serves as the backbone of the VA’s VA-CPRS EHR, conducting over 200 million daily transactions and serving over 380,000 VA staff and 1,500 facilities. The VA-CPRS EHR was the top-rated EHR among physicians in a 2016 EHR comparison conducted by Medscape. Register here.

🏙️ The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

October 14, 2022

🌺 For LFPH:

🍒 For #herald-general:

  • Herald news - we’re testing a v2.10-beta4 release for Android and iOS. This includes new callbacks for convenience for app developers that will show when a detected device is confirmed as a herald device, and when a previously detected device has been out of range/detection for some time, and is deleted. It’ll also include a full working preview of the GPDMP (General Purpose Distributed Messaging Protocol) which is to be used for emergency/disaster communication, and in future perhaps for a fully decentralised digital contact tracing system under the OpenTrace v2.0 umbrella. Initial test results for v2.1.0-beta4 show more stability on iOS, better error handling, and improved contact logging in the demo app which we use for calculating efficacy and reliability statistics.

🚁 From #cardea:

  • Cardea spent time reviewing and renaming project agents and the associated repos to reflect the broader use cases (drug testing, employee health requirements and school health requirements). We are off next week and will reconvene on October 27 for a discussion on outreach and APIs. :strawberry: The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

October 7, 2022

🌼 For LFPH:

  • NEW WEBINAR: "The Next Generation of Neuro-Health Data Sharing" (October 26). Come learn from LFPH member Ontario Brain Institute about Brain-CODE, their neuroinformatics platform for federated data management, sharing and analysis. OBI is based in Canada and fosters a ‘team science’ approach for those living with brain disorders, involving researchers, clinicians, industry, patients, and their advocates.
  • We recommend interested individuals from other health or PH areas to also attend this webinar for inspiration regarding (PHI) data sharing and management! :sunny: For #tac :
  • If anyone has old iPhones or Android phones dating back from present day to 2011 (i.e. the first Bluetooth Low Energy phones) and want to donate to a good cause, I’d like to collect a much wider range of models for Herald testing. UK/EU ones can be sent to me (DM for address details), Americas and Asia addresses TBD. We want to run a range of new calibration tests for Herald both for digital contact tracing reliability, but also for a new ‘emergency communications system’ for when disasters occur and broadband goes down but people are still travelling around with phones in their pockets. This necessitates a lot more phones than prior. We have about 20 test phones - we need 100+ ideally. So if anyone wants to donate a current or older phones to a good cause that’d be great! A variety of makes and models and OS versions - so please don’t update to the latest before sending! (Please do factory reset them though and remove personal data, and de-register on Android!!!). Thanks!
  • Have a public health technology idea that you're interested in refining or developing? Reach out to #tac and @Adam! Either 15 or 30 minutes presentations are accepted (including Q&A) - can be to introduce or update on an existing project, or another cool project that might be useful to other LFPH projects, or a topic for discussion. E.g. Consent or Privacy. Totally fine if its a first presentation - we’re happy to work with people to prep a presentation!

📣 From LFPH members:

  • Hello! One Fact Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to change global health care using open source principles. To accomplish this, we are releasing ClinicalBERT, an algorithm for clinicians that has 300+ citations and is used to predict clinical outcomes.
  • The algorithm uses information from structured and unstructured information in electronic health records.
  • We work with several academic medical centers across the world to continue developing our user experience research approach. The goal is to display predictions from the model about a patient's risk to clinicians, to best help them make decisions that improve health. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05342
  • We also work across languages and cultures: I was in Estonia this summer to work with the former CIO (who is on our board) and a team at Tartu University who re-trained this model in Estonian to show it can work for a country with nowhere near the amount of data available in the United States, and still make accurate predictions.
  • Please reach out to me: [email protected] as we are a new member of Linux Foundation for Public Health and excited to collaborate with you all!! (More on our mission is in the talk I gave at the NIH's aim-ahead.net conference recently: bit.ly/onefact-keynote)

🌼 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

September 30, 2022

🔮 For LFPH:

  • We recently held our latest DITC (Disease Investigation Technology Collaborative) meeting on September 27, discussing an open-source tool for public data releases. Are you a public health agency employee and want to keep ahead of important developments in the public health space as a part of a collaborative community? Sign up for the DITC here: https://www.lfph.io/ditc/

📚 For #tac :

  • Have a public health technology idea that you're interested in refining or developing? Reach out to #tac and @Adam! Either 15 or 30 minutes presentations are accepted (including Q&A) - can be to introduce or update on an existing project, or another cool project that might be useful to other LFPH projects, or a topic for discussion. E.g. Consent or Privacy. Totally fine if its a first presentation - we’re happy to work with people to prep a presentation!

⛵ The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

September 23, 2022

🚀 For LFPH:

  • We held a fantastic webinar earlier this week with experts from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Modernizing Healthcare at the Federal Level with Open Source. Be sure to click the link above to view the recording!
  • We are extremely pleased to welcome three new members to LFPH:
  • The Herald Project are looking for feedback on a potential eHealth Maker’s Kit. The idea is to garner some of the community device hacking spirit from Arduino and Raspberry Pi and focus that on a low-cost and flexible eHealth platform based on the wearable designs in The Herald Project. Any funds raised through selling the kit could be pushed back into Herald and LFPH to pay for things (E.g. Bluetooth registrations etc.). Can I please ask that this community if you have any Maker’s or STEM teachers/students you know, please forward this link and ask them to leave feedback. Thankshttps://github.com/theheraldproject/herald-hardware/issues/15

🚁 For #cardea:

  • Cardea spent time as a community reviewing and editing an upcoming blog that will run on the LFPH channels that further explains the expansion of Cardea use cases beyond the initial Covid/travel use case to include employee and student health verification. It was also determined that in order to maximize developer work time between meetings, Cardea community meetings will move to a biweekly meeting cadence and will now fall on the second and fourth Thursday of the month. Stay up to date using https://lists.lfph.io/g/cardea

🚊 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

September 16, 2022

📣 For LFPH and #tac:

  • LFPH and the #tac are at the Open Source Summit Europe Conference!
  • @Adam from #tac reports: "Conference going very well. Talked to Zephyr team and other attendees about Healthcare, including reps from Irish Government departments. LFPH mini summit on the Monday was well attended with some great talks from Irish Gov and WHO. Herald-centred ‘Lessons learnt from COVID-19 and how they will help healthcare’ went well."
  • "Do let people know who want to talk healthcare to come talk to me on the VMware or Open::UK booths (both near each other!) as I’m hanging around both of them!"
  • NEXT WEEK: We are excited to host our next webinar on Tuesday, September 20 with the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), "Modernizing Healthcare at the Federal Level with Open Source". Join our webinar to learn about CMS’ open source goals, projects, and future plans, presented by leaders from the CMS Digital Service. As always, there will be a Q&A session for you to ask questions to CMS leaders and implementers.
  • Topics will include:
    • Overview of the CMS Digital Services
    • Goals and objectives of digital transformation at CMS
    • The role of open source software in CMS
    • Planned future initiatives
  • Register here!

:ladybug: The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

September 9, 2022

🔮 For #cardea:

  • The Cardea community spent time assigning issues to individual contributors in the Cardea Extension Use Cases project in GitHub formulating a tentative roadmap for future project enhancements. https://github.com/orgs/thecardeaproject/projects/1 🍬 For #tac:
  • Be sure to post in the #tac channel if you have any upcoming open-source project ideas that you want to present for comments, suggestions, or feedback. For more information, please reach out to @Adam Fowler!

💎 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

September 2, 2022

⭐ For LFPH:

  • We are thrilled to host our next webinar on September 20 with the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), "Modernizing Healthcare at the Federal Level with Open Source". Join our webinar to learn about CMS’ open source goals, projects, and future plans, presented by leaders from the CMS Digital Service. As always, there will be a Q&A session for you to ask questions to CMS leaders and implementers.
  • Topics will include:
    • Overview of the CMS Digital Services
    • Goals and objectives of digital transformation at CMS
    • The role of open source software in CMS
    • Planned future initiatives
  • Register here! :bulb: For #tac:
  • Be sure to post in the #tac channel if you have any upcoming open-source project ideas that you want to present for comments, suggestions, or feedback. For more information, please reach out to @Adam Fowler! :crown: For #herald-general:
  • The Herald Team :herald: has recently released v2.1.0-beta2 of the Herald for iOS API! This includes Analysis API improvements to allow a team from Operation Outbreak, a Herald powered application since last year, to develop and test new risk scoring and distance conversion algorithms.
  • The full v2.1.0 final release will include the whole Data Analysis API, a memory, compute and battery efficient live data analysis and aggregation mechanism (as in mathematical - i.e. statistical summaries over time periods) of proximity and other sensor data capture my mobile phones or wearables. Particularly useful for long term monitoring of a patient's condition with a wearable or mobile device connected to Bluetooth devices.
  • The full v2.1.0 release will also include the first implementation of Bluetooth MESH in Herald for Smart Hospitals (C++ repository only) with demonstration beacon apps and a link to RabbitMQ for command and control and data publishing (I.e. to power a "Where's my syringe pusher?" app for hospitals!). The v2.1.0 full release will include a preview of the General Purpose Distributed Messaging Protocol (GPDMP - I'm still bad at naming things) across all of embedded (C++), iOS and Android Herald API, which can be used as a Bluetooth low-energy only distributed secure message passing mechanism for civil emergencies. This is important as it means low cost and older devices from 2011 until now can participate in civil emergency message receipt and passing.
  • You can read the iOS v2.1.0-beta2 release notes here: https://github.com/theheraldproject/herald-for-ios/releases/tag/v2.1.0-beta2 or from our CocoaPod here: https://cocoapods.org/pods/Herald

☀️ The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

August 26, 2022

🚁 For LFPH:

  • Please keep your ears open for new webinars coming up!
  • Our September webinar will be hosted with thought leaders from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)! More details and registration coming soon. 🚀 For #cardea:
  • Cardea formalized the issue tracking and set up the digital project plan in the public Cardea Github for our next two use cases: Vaccination requirements for educational institutions, Healthcare TB Testing for Healthcare Workers. Links can be found on the Cardea Github.

🛸 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

August 19, 2022

🐬 For LFPH:

  • We will soon be announcing upcoming webinars for the next months! (For August, we will be taking a break from webinars due to summer vacation.) 🐋 For #cardea:
  • Cardea created a list of thought leadership, use cases, and content that will be produced in upcoming months. This information will be posted on a new Cardea blog and will be combined with speaking events, briefing materials, and SEO efforts to better highlight the project to new Cardea project contributors and adopters, specifically targeting HIEs, public sector agencies, and private organizations looking for new secure, privacy-preserving health technologies.

🦈 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

August 12, 2022

💎 For LFPH:

  • NEXT WEEK: Be sure to attend the (HealthIT.Gov)[http://healthit.gov/] "Discovery Workshop on eConsent: From Birth to End of Life" on 16 August! LFPH Executive Director Jim St. Clair will be presenting in the second half of the workshop: https://www.healthit.gov/news/events/discovery-workshop-econsent-birth-end-life LFPH contributed to our second academic article Open Source Software for Public Health: Opportunities and Approaches published in the Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. You can read the article here. 🎀 For #cardea:
  • This week, the Cardea community had a lively discussion about consent as it relates to sharing health data and created a list of requirements and challenges to consider when it comes to designing consent schemas.

👑 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

August 5, 2022

🍓 For LFPH:

  • Be sure to check out our recent blog post on the LFPH blog, Public-private partnerships in health: The journey ahead for open source, in which we dive into three key topics: reimagining partnerships; sustainability and governance; and design for the future of public health. 🥕 For #cardea:
  • This week, Cardea provided an introduction to the foundational concepts that are housed in the project. They also drafted schemas for a new derivative credential to facilitate project extension use cases beyond COVID-19.

🧀 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

July 29, 2022

🔮 For LFPH:

  • LFPH held a great conversation at the Disease Investigation Technology Collaborative this week about state surveillance systems and LPHA involvement. One of the key themes that came out was how much funding patterns affect both how states involve LPHAs in design decisions and on what they choose to build.
  • LFPH has recently become a member of the California Consortium of the ONC sponsored Public health Informatics Training (CCPHIT) program. This program sponsors 10 education consortiums to improve PHI training in Higher Ed.
  • LFPH welcomed the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as members of the LFPH Slack and will be meeting about their open source strategy.
  • The Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) has joined LFPH as an associate member. 📚 For #cardea:
  • Cardea renamed the ardea agents and schemas in the codebase to prepare for upcoming expansion of Cardea use cases beyond the initial Covid/travel use case that Cardea was initially focused on.
  • Working Group Chairs @Keela Rose Shatzkin and @Ken Ebert also presented an excellent overview of Cardea as part of the monthly Indicio Identity Community Meetup group.
  • @Rj Reiser from Cardea community member (Liquid Avatar)[https://liquidavatartechnologies.com/] also participated in that event and demonstrated the Liquid Avatar wallet, based on Cardea codebase, interacting with the Cardea health information issuer and verifier agent showing how interoperability can be accomplished using the Cardea codebase. View the recording (here)[https://youtu.be/ruhnyMTqNog]!

🌎 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

July 22, 2022

🥠 For LFPH:

  • We held an excellent webinar this week, "Championing Open-Source in International Public Health: WHO and GitHub," with a special appearance from the TODO Group. Be sure to check out our recording here! 🎕 For #cardea:
  • Cardea spent time this week discussing how to lower the barrier of entry for newcomers to the community though the use of easy to translate pitch decks, a new blog on Cardea.app with regularly updated materials, and further speaking engagements at events that target the health information exchange (HIE) communities. On Tuesday, July 26 at 12pm ET, Cardea working group chairs @Keela Rose Shatzkin, @Ken Ebert will be presenting Cardea at the Indicio Identity Community Meetup, along with @Mike Ebert and @Rj Reiser who will be demonstrating the Cardea health information work flow using the Liquid Avatar Wallet. Registration is required: https://indicio-tech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEscOqvqTotEtFAzVHNrhyFXR7Ch6-NNMkf 🦜 For #cci:
  • The CCI Community is hosting a presentation next week on a whitepaper: The Global Open Health Movement: Empowering People and Saving Lives by Unlocking Data (working draft). It “has been written for technologists in the public and private health sectors that are trying to deliver ‘Open Health’, enabling people to access and share interoperable health data between entities within a health ecosystem.” Debbie Bucci, the Chief Data Officer, at Equideum Health (formerly Consensus Health), an LFPH member, will present on this whitepaper work she is leading at the OpenID Foundation.

⸙ The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

July 15, 2022

🥧 For LFPH:

  • NEXT WEEK (JULY 20): Join the 100+ registrants for our upcoming webinar, in partnership with WHO and GitHub, held on 20 July at 10am ET/16:00 CEST. The focus is on open-source public health efforts in WHO, the UN’s international public health agency. WHO is the first UN agency to launch an open-source program office (OSPO).
  • We invite you to hear from Ayman Badr, Programme Manager at WHO; Dušan Milovanović, Health Intelligence Architect at WHO; and Mala Kumar, Github’s Director of Tech for Social Good.
  • Click here (https://bit.ly/3aqwTnU) for more information and to register. 🍡 For #cardea:
  • This week, the Cardea community collaborated to create a technical roadmap for next steps of the Cardea project extension that would allow for the privacy preserving sharing of a variety of health data between medical labs, patients, and verifying parties. Next week, we will discuss communication and marketing efforts to allow for the lowest barrier of entry for newcomers to the Cardea community.

🍬 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

July 8, 2022

🧲 For LFPH:

  • JULY 20 WEBINAR: We are excited to announce our next webinar in partnership with WHO and GitHub, "Championing Open-Source in International Public Health," held on 20 July at 10am ET/16:00 CEST.
  • The focus is on open-source public health efforts in WHO, the UN’s international public health agency. WHO is the first UN agency to launch an open-source program office (OSPO).
  • We invite you to hear from Ayman Badr, Programme Manager at WHO; Dušan Milovanović, Health Intelligence Architect at WHO; and Mala Kumar, Github’s Director of Tech for Social Good.
  • Click here (https://bit.ly/3aqwTnU) for more information and to register for the webinar. 🧰 For #cardea:
  • In the Cardea meeting this week, the participants spoke about the extensibility of the Cardea codebase into other use cases including Health certification for University or work, Immunization proofs, employee health requirements, drug testing, and other types of digital health information. This conversation will continue as Cardea prepares for the next interop-a-thon that will be held in the Fall.

🖍 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

July 1, 2022

🌊 For LFPH and #tac:

🎣 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

June 24, 2022

🍅 For LFPH and #tac:

  • JUNE 30 WEBINAR: Be sure to attend our upcoming webinar, Surfacing Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Healthcare Data (with Mai Pham, MD, MPh, Institute for Exceptional Care). Learn how identifying IDD in patient data connects to quality of patient care, and about challenges and opportunities in the IDD-healthcare data space. Registration here: https://bit.ly/3OiR5GQ
  • The Kubernetes for Health project has been proposed in yesterday's TAC! See the post in #tac for a link to the presentation (in the TAC presentation itself). Project Herald is seeing further adoption for IoT interlinks which will enable Smart Hospital use cases. We're also always looking for people to drop in with project ideas or gaps they've spotted where they wish there was a project, so please join upcoming TAC calls to chat about needs!
  • LFPH had an article published in Public Health Reports last week, going through the story of how exposure notifications came to the US - "A Brief History of Exposure Notification During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, 2020-2021"
  • The next meeting of the Disease Investigation Technology Collaborative is on Tuesday! We'll be discussing the surveillance tech needs of local public health authorities. If you work at a PHA and would like to join, you can register here: lfph.io/ditc

🥑 For #cardea:

🥭 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

June 17, 2022

⚽ For LFPH:

  • JUNE 30 WEBINAR: Be sure to attend our upcoming webinar, Surfacing Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Healthcare Data (with Mai Pham, MD, MPh, Institute for Exceptional Care). Learn how identifying IDD in patient data connects to quality of patient care, and about challenges and opportunities in the IDD-healthcare data space. Registration here: https://bit.ly/3O0Afwg
  • LFPH and the Stewards of Change Institute (SOCI) presented the Consent Services Utility project under development to the European Social Services Conference in Hamburg DE last Wednesday. This includes potential development for Cardea.
  • LFPH had a two hour meeting with the WHO Open Source Program Office (OSPO) in Berlin. Additional follow ups, to include presentations with LFPH.
  • Planning continues for a colocated LFPH event as part of OSS EU in Dublin Sept 12-14.

:table_tennis_paddle_and_ball: For #cardea:

🏀 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

June 10, 2022

🎍 For #cardea:

  • The Interop-a-thon will take place this upcoming Thursday, June 16, 2022, 8:00am-12:00pm MST. You can find a blog with further details about this event posted on the Indicio blog here.
  • To participate in the Interop-a-thon: Anyone developing a Hyperledger Aries compatible solution is welcome to join and test their solution against other participants: Please register to participate here
  • To view the Interop-a-thon: Anyone that would like to watch the proceedings is welcome to register using the zoom link found here. (Note: this is a unique and different zoom link than we typically use for community meetings)

🌞 For #tac:

  • Carole Corley, TAC representative for IBM Watson Health and Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM, proposed a project today called "LinuxForHealth." The project would transform and analyze healthcare data in-place on enterprise networks: please see a recording of her presentation here. We would anticipate beneficial synergy between this project and the recent Kubernetes for Healthcare proposal, with each proposal remaining separate.
  • We encourage you to make comments and give any feedback on the LinuxForHealth proposal Google Doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RxliUxqbmc6DhHgEPZ3AhAPUDKzNqM4I

🌛 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

June 3, 2022

🍒 For #tac:

May 27, 2022

🎏 For #cardea:

  • We're happy to announce the next Interop-a-thon will take place June 16, 2022, 8:00am-12:00pm MST. You can find a blog with further details about this event posted on the Indicio blog here.
  • To participate in the Interop-a-thon: Anyone developing a Hyperledger Aries compatible solution is welcome to join and test their solution against other participants: Please register to participate here
  • To view the Interop-a-thon: Anyone that would like to watch the proceedings is welcome to register using the zoom link found here. (Note: this is a unique and different zoom link than we typically use for community meetings)
  • Please share this with anyone in your networks that may be interested. We are hoping to reach far and wide to get as many participants as possible! See you there!

📚 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

May 20, 2022

🍵 For #tac:

🍯 For #cardea:

  • The next Interop-a-thon will take place Thursday, June 16. More information will be released on Monday.
  • This is an excellent opportunity for anyone building Hyperledger Aries compatible agents to test against the Cardea reference implementation. This will include Machine Readable Governance, out of band connections and basic message protocol. Sign up at https://lists.lfph.io/g/cardea for registration links and further information.

🥣 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

May 13, 2022

🍭 For LFPH and GCCN:

  • We had a successful webinar on #gccn-trust-registry-network this week demonstrating the outcomes of the Proof-of-Concept. We recommend anyone who is seeking a comprehensive but simple explanation of the what, why and how of the GCCN Trust Registry Network to check out the recording if you were not able to attend the webinar live.

:first_place_medal: For #cardea:

  • Congratulations to SITA (image below), the leading contributor to the Cardea codebase, for winning the Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials award at the European Identity & Cloud conference in Berlin. KuppingerCole Analysts presented Adrien Sanglier the award in recognition for their project with the Government of Aruba, built in partnership with Indicio, and the first public reference implementation for Cardea. The community meeting focused on creating a draft roadmap for the THIRD Cardea Interop-a-thon that will take place next month. Stay tuned for further details.

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🎍The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

May 6, 2022

🍬 For GCCN:

  • Please be sure to register for our GCCN Trust Registry Network Proof-of-Concept Demonstration and Q&A webinars in the upcoming week, May 10, 2022 at 8 am ET / 2 pm CEST, and May 11, 2022 at 7 pm PT / (+1d) 10 am HKT, for a live demo and Q&A session. We are excited to:
    • Introduce why the GCCN Trust Registry Network is important and necessary to addressing the trust management issues of the fragmented COVID certificate space
    • Demonstrate how the GCCN Trust Registry Network works through the technical components developed during the POC
    • Share the upcoming plan for the GCCN Trust Registry Network and recent developments related to its implementations
    • Answer any questions you have about the GCCN Trust Registry Network and how one can get involved

🍧 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

April 29, 2022

🍞 For LFPH:

  • The Institute for Exceptional Care has joined as an associate member. The Institute for Exceptional Care (IEC) was created to address issues in healthcare effectiveness and equity for those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD).
  • By tapping the power of innovation, IEC aims to transform our healthcare system and help healthcare better locate and serve people with I/DD.

🥗 For #cardea:

  • There was no community meeting this week as many of our members were onsite at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW).
  • Next week is the monthly Cardea Newcomers meeting where we will review the roadmap and re-introduce the basic concepts and tech that make up Cardea. This is a great meeting for anyone who is looking at verifiable credentials for healthcare to see how they are implemented in Cardea. Sign up at Groups io to get the calendar invite and meeting zoom link: https://lists.lfph.io/g/cardea

🍅 For Herald:

🥦 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

April 22, 2022

🧤 For LFPH:

  • LFPH has established a membership in the OpenHIE group, part of the Regrensteif Institute, and established a liaison relationship with the Digital Twin Consortium.

👟 For #gccn-trust-registry-network:

🧦 For #cardea:

  • Cardea will be cancelling next week’s meeting for the IIW conference.
  • The Cardea community discussed testing items for the next Interop-a-thon 3– tentatively scheduled June 16. (interop profile review scheduled for 5/1)

🧣 For Herald (#herald-general):

  • We have a working Bluetooth MESH demo linked into RabbitMQ to enable remote administration and "Find my syringe pusher" type functionality, and will in future allow visitors to navigate the hospital in a privacy preserving way (all location triangulation and choice of destination is done on the phone). Currently it's just passing messages with no user interface, but we're working on that now ready for a Beta in early May.

🥾 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

April 15, 2022

🚁For #tac, Project Herald :herald: and LFPH:

  • Project Herald: We have a working example of Bluetooth MESH that we're working on for Smart Hospitals.
  • Please review and leave comments on a new suggestion for the LFPH Landscape page layout here: lfph/lfph-landscape#457
  • Be sure to register for our Linux Public Health Foundation “Open House” on April 21, 10am Central/11am ET (17:00 CEST)! Register here (https://bit.ly/3qRS0V2).

🚛For #cardea:

  • This week, the Cardea community saw demonstrations of two different systems (Liquid Avatar and SITA) that could issue, receive, and hold verifiable digital health credentials. We talked about upcoming enhancements to the Cardea Project that would expand the scope of its use among providers, patients, and other verifying entities and tentatively planned for the next Interop-a-thon to take place in June.
  • Register now for the Cardea Interop-a-thon II retrospective webinar taking place on Tuesday, April 19, 11am Central/12 noon ET (18:00 CEST) and learn more about this complete end-to-end codebase for verifiable digital credentials: be sure to register here.
  • Final edits for the Cardea Whitepaper are due by April 20 for a May 1 release. The paper will provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of the project to newcomers and business decision makers.

🚀The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

April 8, 2022

🍄For #tac and LFPH:

  • Be sure to register for our Linux Public Health Foundation “Open House” on April 21, 10am Central/11am ET (17:00 CEST)! Register here (https://bit.ly/3qRS0V2).

🐚For #cardea:

  • This week, the Cardea community made wonderful progress on a draft of the Cardea white paper. The paper will provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of the project to newcomers and business decision makers.
  • The date for Cardea’s digital health credentials demo day is Thursday, April 14, at 11am Central/12 noon ET (18:00 CEST). Participants will have the opportunity to test different vendor solutions interoperating with the Cardea reference implementation, test out of band invitations, and test machine readable governance. This is a great opportunity for those interested in decentralized identity, verifiable credentials, or self-sovereign identity to see it in action first hand. Join us by signing up for Groups(.)io here.
  • Join us for the Cardea Interop-a-thon 2 retrospective webinar on Tuesday, April 19, 11am Central/12 noon ET (18:00 CEST) and learn more about this powerful codebase: be sure to register here. :leaves:F️or #gccn-trust-registry-network:
  • We hosted a GCCN community meeting today (recording here) providing an update on the GCCN Trust Registry Network PoC and collecting feedback on the PoC demo.

🎍The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

April 1, 2022

🧥For #tac and LFPH:

  • As we continue into the fourth month of the year, we are thrilled to announce our first Linux Public Health Foundation “Open House” on April 21, 10am Central/11am ET (17:00 CEST)! Join us to hear about:
    • LFPH’s first two years,
    • our projects and accomplishments,
    • our strategic approach for 2022, and
    • new projects that are in development.
  • Everyone is welcome to attend and learn more! Register here (https://bit.ly/3qRS0V2).
  • In the last month, the TAC has approved several new projects for LFPH that they will be initiating in Q1/Q2!
    • Maternal Mental Health Database (Florida State University)
    • Public Health Data Mesh (Cisco)
    • Consent Service Utility (SOCI)

🔮 For #cardea:

  • The Cardea Interop-a-thon 2 was held on March 17! Please see our LFPH blog post with more details on the event and next steps.
  • The date for Cardea’s digital health credentials demo day is Thursday, April 7, at 11am Central/12 noon ET (18:00 CEST). Participants will have the opportunity to test different vendor solutions interoperating with the Cardea reference implementation, test out of band invitations, and test machine readable governance. Sign up here.
  • The Cardea Interop-a-thon 2 retrospective webinar will be hosted on Tuesday, April 19, 11am Central/12 noon ET (18:00 CEST): be sure to register here.

📕 F️or #cci:

  • CCI is moving out of LFPH to form an independent LF project that focuses on community building and standardization efforts and will continue working with LFPH as sister projects. More information to be announced through the CCI community newsletter.

🎈 F️or #gccn-trust-registry-network:

  • The LFPH team is working with partners to complete a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) of the GCCN Trust Registry Network to showcase viability of the technology and basic functionalities of the Network. Stay tuned for more details of the PoC or participate in the next GCCN community call to learn more.

👔 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

March 25, 2022

🍓For #tac:

  • Main update: the TAC is looking for people to present at upcoming meetings, either about their own projects, cool opensource in healthcare, new project ideas, or problems in healthcare they see!
  • Please reach out to me at [email protected] to discuss presentation slots. Usually they are 20 mins, followed by 10 mins Q&A.

🌼F️or LFPH:

  • We are excited to announce that LFPH has completed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) and Digital Twin Consortium (DTC).
  • University of Texas, University of Rochester and Florida State University will also be joining in a new Academic Medical Center consortium to address digital health equity.
  • Jim St. Clair (executive director) attended HLTH VIVE on March 6-9 and HIMSS on March 14-18. He presented on Digital Twins in healthcare, eConsent, health equity in communities, and cybersecurity.

💐The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

March 18, 2022

🌄 For #tac:

  • Main update: A presentation this week around an idea for a "k8s for healthcare" project.
  • There was good discussion on this and the TAC would like to hear from people/PHA/ISVs/projects that are targeting Kubernetes in healthcare. Be sure to follow up on the #tac channel
  • Video recording link on the TAC website: https://youtu.be/yUNGIYPDBWU

🌃 For #cardea:

  • The Cardea Interop-a-thon was held on March 17 (Thursday)! We will post more updates and learnings from this event over the coming days and weeks.

⛵F️or LFPH:

🎆 The rest of the community is quietly working away on their projects. More next week!

March 11, 2022

:herald: For #herald-general:

  • A new version of herald-analysis (an R library script with examples) will be released that includes a working approach to phone Bluetooth signal strength self-calibration based on data collected from the Herald demo app.
  • This uses ideas from Proxemics to self-calibrate a phone based on a persons interactions with other humans - close contacts, acquaintances, and people passing nearby. Calibrating these common contact proximities on a person’s phone makes risk scoring more accurate, and also calibrates to things due to their behavior, such as always placing their phone the same way in their pocket or bag.
  • Initial testing shows after calibration, the two mutual contacts’ risk scores were within 7.5% of each other!
  • These calibrations can be further tuned from ‘norms’ in particular societies, if required. We’re going to trial it further before creating a Social Mixing Score UI component in Herald for other app developers to use. The mechanism itself and an example will be in the next version of the Herald API, as part of the Risk and Exposure API examples.
  • Description here: https://github.com/theheraldproject/herald-analysis#phone-self-calibration-scripts
  • Full blog post detailing the above here: https://heraldprox.io/blog/self-calibration

🍍 For #cardea:

  • Save the date and sign up for the second Cardea Interop-a-thon.
    • March 17, 8am to 12 noon MST (-7:00 UTC)
  • In addition to providing an opportunity testing agents, wallets, and networks, we’ll be focusing on out-of-band invitations and machine readable governance. Code for download will be available on Feb 24. Office hours for help with implementation and technical details on Cardea.app
  • Anyone using Hyperledger Aries agents welcome to participate ahead of the switchover on March 31.
  • Please RSVP by COB March 15 on https://cardea.app (scroll past the fold)

February 18, 2022

🌍 For LFPH:

🌵 For #cci:

  • On Feb 22 at 7 am PT / 3 pm UTC, our Global Implementation Forum will host @Chatchai from Finema, to present on the Thailand Pass, which the company developed for the Thai government to reopen travel. Chatchai is one of our newly elected Steering Committee members.

🍍 For #cardea:

  • Save the date and sign up for the second Cardea Interop-a-thon.
    • March 17, 8am to 12 noon MST (-7:00 UTC)
  • In addition to providing an opportunity testing agents, wallets, and networks, we’ll be focusing on out-of-band invitations and machine readable governance. Code for download will be available on Feb 24. Office hours for help with implementation and technical details on Cardea.app
  • Anyone using Hyperledger Aries agents welcome to participate ahead of the switchover on March 31.
  • Please RSVP by COB March 15 on https://cardea.app (scroll past the fold)

February 10, 2022

🌶️ For #cardea:

  • The date for our next Interop-athon is Thursday, March 17, 2022.
  • We’ll be testing Out-of-Band (OOB) invitations with those whose agents who are able to receive them (we will be able to accommodate old-style invitations too). This will be a valuable opportunity to test and tune agents ahead of Aries Community adoption of OOB on March 31 — and we encourage any company who wants to test their agents to join us— regardless of their interest in Cardea or health credentials.
  • We will also be testing basic machine readable governance (MRG). *A reference implementation for both OOB and MRG will be made available shortly—and we’ll have office hours to help people with installation well ahead of the event. Timings, sign up sheets to come!

🥭 For #cci:

  • After a few months of work at the Practical Governance Task Force led by @errancarmel and @sankarshan, the Digital Health Credential System Implementation Guide V1 was moved from Pre-Draft to Draft stage at the Global Implementation Forum (recording of the discussion here).
  • Inspired by the Good Health Pass work, the #cci-practical-governance-tf (formerly the Rules and Governance Workstream) created this simple guide to help implementers understand what requirements a digital health credential system needs to meet to be called “Good”. This can be used by implementers before starting their product development as a guide for their design considerations and a benchmark while developing and iterating on their products.
  • As the next step, until Feb 18, we are inviting the community to comment on this Draft deliverable, particularly on the following:
    • If the overall structure of the guide is easy to understand by implementers and the general public
    • If the guide covers the most important requirements
    • If the requirements are reasonable and actionable
    • If the requirements are communicated clearly
  • We look forward to receiving your comments!

February 4, 2022

The LFPH Weekly Update, where our community shares the achievements of the past week and what’s coming in the weeks ahead, is very quiet today. That happens from time to time and we’re sure we’ll have a solid list of topics next week. Have a great weekend, everyone!

January 28, 2022

🏎️ For #cardea

  • At next week’s Cardea meeting Jim St. Clair will be presenting on LFPH’s strategy for 2022. One goal of the Cardea Working Group is to understand how the Cardea codebase can be used to support use cases that accord with LFPH’s strategic priorities. The reference implementation for machine readable governance is close to being finished. Updates will be announced in the Cardea Slack and on Cardea.app

🚀 For #cci

January 21, 2022

🌐 For LFPH:

  • On Jan 26, Dimagi will present “Bringing global best practices to US public health” at 12 PM ET/ 6 PM UTC – you can register here
  • LFPH will participate in the EU Open Source Forum as part of the panel, “EU Digital Covid Certificates: How Open Source Opened Europe” at 545AM ET/ 1145 AM UTC

:snow_capped_mountain: For #cci:

  • On Jan 25 at 7 am PT / 3 pm UTC, the Global Implementation Forum will have @Andreas Sigurdsson, the Founder and CEO of Zada Solutions, share their experience “Launching and scaling COVID credentials as an industry initiative in Myanmar”.
    • In 2021, ZADA launched in Myanmar a COVIDPASS program in collaboration with the private sector. The COVIDPASS program provides businesses with tools to restore confidence in their ability to handle COVID-19, both issuers such as hospitals and verifiers such as airlines, buses, restaurants and entertainment. ZADA has so far provided booking and registration systems, as well as a QR scanning solution for physical checks.
    • Andreas will cover the following main topics in his presentation:
      • Going to production and launching as a industry initiative
      • Adapting to the reality on the ground how people use the platform
      • Getting the first issuer onboard and the extra work to make them integrate
      • Expanding the network to more verifiers, and getting them to integrate
      • Scaling and performance.
  • For all CCI activities, you can subscribe to the community calendar here.

:snowman_without_snow: For #gccn

  • The #gccn-trust-registry-network implementers are meeting on Jan 27 at 8 am PT / 4 pm UTC to discuss further PoC and launching the governance and business model task force.

🚅 For #cardea

  • The team has just updated the Cardea website. (It will be iterative improved, so lots more content coming in the next few weeks.) https://Cardea.app
  • The community group are also group writing a white paper eta for end of February.

:lower_left_paintbrush: For #sig-design

  • The team has been working on The Digital Health Connections Model, a representation of the system of services that can make up digital health software. While it remains a work in progress, they felt it’s ready to share with the wider group. Have a look at https://goinvo.github.io/DigitalHealthServiceComponents/ and if you want to get involved, head over to their Slack channel.

January 14, 2022

Welcome to the first real update of the year. It’s great to have you all back from your respective breaks. Here’s to a successful 2022! On to the updates:

🥭 For #cardea:

  • We are changing the format of the Thursday community meetings. Henceforth, the
    • 1st Thursday of the month will be an intro meeting for newcomers, and review of playbook
    • 2nd/4th Thursdays will be technical meetings
    • 3rd Thursday of the month will focus on marketing/communication plans
  • We are beginning to prepare for the next Interopathon. This will be on out-of-band/DID exchange protocols and machine readable governance. We expect a reference implementation before the end of January, along with technical documentation. We will then allow several weeks for companies to implement and test with Indicio holding office hours for support.

🍍 For #cci:

  • The Global Implementation Forum on Jan 11 had @Lucy Yang (CCI) and @John Walker present recording an update on of the #gccn-trust-registry-network to the CCI community, discussing the how CCI community members can benefit and contribute to the work.
  • The #cci-business-rules-tf met (meeting page and recording) on Jan 12 to discuss the two use cases the Task Force is going to work through: 1) biometric pre-check and 2) foreign traveler requirements.
  • The #cci-practical-governance-tf met on Jan 12 to collect feedback from Bindle Systems on the Digital Health Credential Implementers Guide. The Task Force will work further in the upcoming weeks to incorporate feedback and getting it ready for broader community review.
  • The #cci-apac-group will have its first call in the new year on Wednesday January 19 at 11 am HKT. We will invite community members to share how the current Omicron wave are affecting COVID certificate implementations in the APAC region.

🍓 For #gccn

  • We had the first 2022 #gccn-trust-registry-network implementers call today (meeting page and recording) to present the roadmap and priorities for the upcoming six months and where we are at with the technical development (we have the technical back-end ready for the PoC.

🌶️ For LFPH:

  • We completed our monthly governance board and introduction of the 2022 strategic plan. Major themes for LFPH activities will be 1) Rural health 2) Veterans Health and 3) health equity
  • LFPH presented to the LF AI TAC to discuss creating an “Ethics in Healthcare AI” training plan
  • LFPH and Consensys Health co-presented on the Veterans Incentivized Coordination & Integration (VICI) initiative. Watch the replay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NMervhm-VQ&t=6s LFPH is participating as a panelist in the HHS/ONC Showcase: “Artificial Intelligence Showcase – Seizing the Opportunities and Managing the Risks of Use of AI in Health IT” The LF led the way in presenting Open Source Software Security to the Whitehouse. LFPH participates in several working groups to improve medical device security and Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs): https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/the-openssf-and-the-linux-foundation-addre[…]e-supply-chain-security-challenges-at-white-house-summit/
  • Planned Conference Activities
    • HLTH Mar 6-9
    • HIMSS Mar 14-18

January 7, 2022

🎉 Happy New Year, everyone.

There are no updates to share just yet. For many of our members and their teams the past few weeks have been marked by well-deserved downtime and rest, some intentional and some less so (Covid/Omicron has certainly been making the rounds in some areas; we hope everyone is healthy or recovering well).

Please remember to share any updates you might have so we can collect them and include them in next week’s roundup.

December 31, 2022

No update (as planned on December 240.

December 24, 2021

:herald: For #herald-general:

⁉️ For #exposure-notification:

  • The risk score v2.0 recommendations are published! We'll be putting out a blog post about it on Wednesday and advertising widely. If you'd like to take a look before then, you can head straight over to our GitHub. Thank you so much to everyone who helped in drafting these and leading the way. https://github.com/lfph/gaen-risk-scoring/blob/main/risk-scoring.md

#️⃣ For LFPH:

  • Wishing everyone who is celebrating this week a very happy holiday. We'll be taking next week off and will see you again in January. Stay safe, stay healthy.

December 10, 2021

🎷 for #cardea

  • In next week’s #cardea meeting, the team will review the roadmap in light of the past year, and assess the status of new protocols on machine-readable governance and out-of-band connection, which will be added to the next Interop-athon event, scheduled for the new year. More community meeting videos have been added to YouTube.

🎺 for #cci:

  • @Kaliya Identity Woman and @Lucy Yang (CCI) shared (recording here) the takeaway and learning of the COVID Health Credentials for International Travel Summit at the Global Implementation Forum followed by a community discussion of what it meant for CCI. A summary report of the Summit will be released soon.
  • The Schema Task Force #cci-schema-tf met (recording here) to get an update from @Paul Knowles on the Data Agreements project and discuss how we can leverage this work particularly for health credentials in 2022.
  • The Business Rules Task Force #cci-business-rules-tf met (recording here) to define the next steps of the task force and the group agreed to work on laying out a few use cases as a starting point in 2022.
  • There won’t be any CCI meetings until the second week of January. Calendar invites for the new year will be sent soon.

🎸 for #gccn

  • We are making good progress with the technical back-end of for the GCCN Trust Registry Network PoC #gccn-trust-registry-network. To get the most up-to-date information, join the the last implementers (technical task force) meeting before holidays on December 15, 2021 at 8 am PT / 2 pm UTC.

:drum_with_drumsticks: for LFPH:

  • Watch @Jenny Wanger’s presentation at the Linux Foundation Member Summit on the accomplishments of our community and some of where we’re headed. A big thank you to @James Snell for his leadership on the LFPH #tac for this past year+. We’ll miss him, and congratulations to @Adam for stepping in to lead the group through 2022.

December 3, 2021

For LFPH:

  • We're hiring a marketing coordinator! Our ideal candidate is someone who has a strong understanding of public health and some familiarity with social media, blogging, etc. Job posting is here.

For #cci:

  • @Kaliya Identity Woman and @Lucy Yang (CCI) will share the takeaway and learning of the COVID Health Credentials for International Travel Summit at the upcoming the Global Implementation Forum on December 7 at 7 am PT / 2 pm UTC.
  • The CCI community will be on holiday mode from December 13, 2021 to January 7, 2022, during which there will be no community meetings and newsletters.

For #gccn

  • @John Walker is leading the technical development work with the support of many of our community members. We expect to have the back-end infrastructure set up for the GCCN Trust Registry Network PoC before the end of the year. Our next Technical Task Force call will be on December 7 at 8 am PT / 2 pm UTC.

November 19, 2021

🍄 For #cci:

  • The APAC group #cci-apac-group call had @Tobias Looker from MATTR (recording here), the technology partner of the New Zealand government, provide a walkthrough of the technical specification for the New Zealand COVID Health Pass, which has leveraged some emerging but widely implemented standards. Check out the recording and find out the rationale behind the major technical decisions of spec.

🍗 For #gccn

  • The #gccn-trust-registry-network technical task force will meet on November 23 at 8 am PT / 4 pm UTC to kick off the planning for the PoC. Our EU ESSIF TRAIN (TRust mAnagement INfrastructure) project contact will join us and help us navigate how to leverage the project.

🥗 For LFPH:

  • We're co-hosting an event dedicated to improving the COVID credential experience in international travel with #cci and our member Affinidi.
  • Missed this week's event about delivering COVID data to patients? Video is available here for your viewing pleasure.
  • Thanksgiving is next week in the US, so some LFPH staff will be working with limited hours and we'll see you the week following! For those of you who celebrate, happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

🥦 For #cardea:

  • Cardea has made a lot of progress on machine readable governance over the past few weeks; so, we’re ready to announce an Interop-athon on Machine Readable Governance in January 2022. Details to come! No meeting next week due to Thanksgiving.

November 12, 2021

:herald: For #herald-general:

  • 🏆 Herald won the OpenUK award for open source software! Please help us congratulate @Adam and the entire Herald team on this great achievement. You can catch some photos from the awards ceremony on Twitter.

🥎 For #cci:

  • The Global Implementation Forum (recording) had Kay Chopard, the new Executive Director of Kantara, provide an overview of the NIST 800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines, how health credential projects can benefit from implementing it and Kantara’s assurance program for it.
  • The Business Rules Task Force #cci-business-rules-tf (recording) had @Travis James, the CTO of Tribe Health Solutions, outline their approach for implementing business rules within their platform in a soon to be released solution and share the key functional features required for distributed rules processing, including Rule Discovery, Validation, Signing, Access Control and Rule Invalidation.
  • The APAC group #cci-apac-group call on November 16 at 7 pm PT / November 17 at 11 am HKT will have @Tobias Looker from MATTR, the technology partner of the New Zealand government, provide a walkthrough of the technical specification for the New Zealand COVID Health Pass, which uses the W3C Verifiable Credential Data Model.

🏐 For #gccn

  • We are forming a technical task force for #gccn-trust-registry-network led by our staff to devise a plan on leveraging the EU ESSIF TRAIN (TRust mAnagement INfrastructure) project for a proof-of-concept (PoC) and build the additional components needed for the PoC. To participate in the technical task force, join the Slack channel.

🏈 For LFPH:

  • @Jim StClair’s slides from last week's Linux Foundation Member Summit are available to view.
  • Happening next week! Nov. 17 - A presentation on some of the lessons learned from delivering 25 million COIVD test results and vaccination records - https://www.lfph.io/webinars/empowering-patients/

November 7, 2021

:herald: For #herald-general:

  • Looking for help with designing our approach to helm and kubernetes for OpenTrace v2. Also looking for community advocates to help us get regular short videos out there about what we are doing and to build the community.

🌻 For #cci,

  • At the APAC Group call #cci-apac-group (recording here), @Michael Maher, the CEO of OnePassport, presented their mobile workforce credentialing system for workers in regulated industries and how it is helping both State and Federal Governments in Australia on workforce compliance and immunization programs.
  • At the North America Group call #cci-north-america-group (recording here), @Daniel J. Lee, the CEO of Kokomo24/7, provided an update on their VaxTrax platform and their current implementation with Amtrak to ensure employee compliance with the COVID health policies.
  • The Global Implementation Forum call on November 9 at 7 am PT / 2 pm UTC will have Kay Chopard, the new Executive Director of Kantara, provide our community an overview of the NIST 800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines and Kantara’s assurance program for implementers of this standard.

🌷 For #gccn,

  • We have moved our recurring Implementers’ meetings to every other Thursday. Join our next call on November 11 at 8 am PT / 3 p UTC to get an update on the #gccn-trust-registry-network PoC.

🌸 For LFPH:

  • We headed over to the Linux Foundation Member Summit this week where @Jenny Wanger and @Jim StClair shared more about our community's accomplishments so far and what lies ahead. We'll post the video when it's ready.
  • Join us Nov. 17 for a presentation on some of the lessons learned from delivering 25 million COIVD test results and vaccination records - https://www.lfph.io/webinars/empowering-patients/

October 29, 2021

🐟 For #cardea:

  • This week’s meeting dove into derivative credentials, with a focus on incorporating the EU’s DCC into Cardea.
  • Next week’s meeting will be on KYC (Know-Your-Customer) processes.
  • The second installment of our deep dive into Machine Readable Governance is now up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TVy7b601N8

🐠 For #cci:

  • The Global Implementation Forum had Carlos Correcha and Marco Magistri from eMed, a digital point of care platform that enables home diagnostic testing with third-party verified and validated results, present (recording here) their FDA-approved technology, explaining how it aims to help bring people back to work and re-engage with international travel.
  • The Schema Task Force #cci-schema-tf discussed (recording here) Data Agreements to record the conditions for an organization to process personal data following jurisdictional and sectoral privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, HIPPA, etc.) captured in a signed receipt given to the individual.
  • The Practical Governance Task Force #cci-practical-governance-tf shared (recording here) updates on work underway to produce the Digital Health Pass checklist and sought out feedback on the current state of the work. The first version of this checklist is scheduled to be available for community review and feedback during November. This work complements the Governance Framework Toolkit that is under development.
  • The Business Rules Task Force #cci-business-rules-tf discussed (recording here) complexity of COVID health and travel rules and gaps in existing solutions. At our next call, we are going to have @Travis James from Tribe Health Solutions provide a walkthrough of their solution and continue our conversations on defining the scope for this task force - what open protocol and resources we can develop to address the market needs.
  • The APAC Group #cci-apac-group will meet on November 3 at 11 am HKT / 8:30 am IST. @Michael Maher, the CEO of OnePassport, will present to us their solution, a mobile workforce credentialing system for workers in regulated industries. OnePassport works with both State and Federal Governments in Australia on workforce compliance and immunization programs, providing a smartphone app for individual users to record their information and a cloud-based SaaS system for organizations to manage the data.
  • The North America Group #cci-north-america-group will meet on November 4 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET and have @Daniel J. Lee, the CEO of Kokomo24/7, share their work with Amtrak on using technology to enable streamlined management of running the vaccine and testing program and running the compliance program.

🐬 For #gccn

  • We are gaining interest from more and more countries and organizations for the #gccn-trust-registry-network while making good technical progress for its PoC. At the past Implementers’ Meeting, @John Walker led a discussion of the TRAIN protocol we are trying and evaluating for the Trust Registry Network back-end using an example he created through the TRAIN schema and explained how it maps to the entry showcased through our demo web app. If you are interested in participating in our GCCN Trust Registry Network PoC, reach out to @Lucy Yang (CCI).

October 22, 2021

For #cci:

  • The North America Group #cci-north-america-group had @Brad Head from the British Columbia Government COVID certificate team share with us (recording here) their implementation approach and lessons learned implementing the SMART Health Cards.
  • The APAC Group #cci-apac-group had the DIVOC team provide (recording here) an in-depth overview of their technology, existing implementations and implementations in the pipeline.
  • The Global Implementation Forum on October 26 (7 am PT / 2 pm UTC) will have eMed, a US-based at-home rapid testing solution provider and digital health pass solution provider, talk about how they are helping to make international travel easier and bring people back to work.
  • The Practical Governance Task Force #cci-practical-governance-tf will meet for first time on Oct 27 (7 am PT / 2 pm UTC) since its renaming and collect community input on a Digital Health Pass Checklist.

For #gccn:

  • We are working to get more details fleshed out for a GCCN Trust Registry Network POC. Join our next call on Oct 29 at 8 am PT / 3 pm UTC to learn more.

For LFPH:

  • The October newsletter is out. If you didn't get it, sign up for our mailing list at lfph.io/#newsletter

October 15, 2021

:cricket_bat_and_ball: For #cardea:

:field_hockey_stick_and_ball: For #cci:

  • CCI Steering Committee Member Election - Community Vote is still open. We have three great candidates @Chatchai @Trevor Butterworth @Ryan Barrett (NL) running for three seats. Vote for the one(s) you want to lead the community here.
  • The newly-named Global Implementation Forum met on October 21 (recording here), where Rhonda Facile and Rebecca Kush from CDISC [Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium] presented their newly published Vaccine Administration V1.0, a mapping curation of minimum vaccination data elements and metadata and designed for travel use cases. The presentation led to a lively Q&A session where knowledgeable call participants provided feedback. For further updates on this CDISC initiative, don’t hesitate to contact @Lucy Yang (CCI) or @Paul Knowles.
  • The APAC group #cci-apac-group will meet again on Oct 20 at 11 am HK / 8:30 am IST. We will have the team from DIVOC @Rajeesh Menon to provide the community an overview of their technology and existing implementations.
  • The Schema Task Force #cci-schema-tf met on October 11 (recording here). The group discussed the importance of data transformation objects and tools to enable attribute mapping and pipeline processing from Purpose-based Service Providers (PSP) to structured data capture forms, specifications, and standards defined by Data Governance Authorities. This process directly contrasts the current situation where Insights-based Service Providers (ISP) dictate the data unification process, leading to the data’s original context often being lost, leading to contextual inaccuracies at the data aggregation stage. To be continued.

:ice_hockey_stick_and_puck: For #gccn:

  • We had another GCCN Trust Registry Network Implementers’ meeting to provide the community an update on POC progress and share a drafted narrative to help governments understand the value of participating in the GCCN Trust Registry Network.

🥍 For LFPH:

  • The risk score symposium recommendations are nearing their final draft stage. Add your comments here.
  • Check out our latest blog series on different COVID Credential technology

October 08, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead, as far as each group passes that on.

🚀 for LFPH: We are thrilled to welcome new leadership with @Jim StClair joining us as Executive Director! Read the whole announcement and see the note above from @Brian Behlendorf: https://www.lfph.io/2021/10/08/welcoming-jim-st-clair/

🗻 For Cardea: The Cardea Steering Committee met this week: Development priorities for the next three months will be finishing machine readable governance and engaging with smartcards. The next interopathon will focus on machine readable governance and is tentatively scheduled for late January 2022.

⛰️ For CCI: We had our September All-Member Meeting on Oct 8, providing the community an update on the logistics for community groups structuring and hosting a Q&A session for Steer Committee Election Candidates @Chatchai @Trevor Butterworth @Ryan Barrett (NL) to meet the community. On Oct 12 at 7 am PT / 2 pm UTC, the Global Implementation Forum (formerly the Use Case Implementation Workstream) will have experts from The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) talk about their newly published Vaccine Administration V1.0, a mapping curation of minimum vaccination data elements and metadata and designed for travel use cases. The APAC group #cci-apac-group had a great community call on Oct 6 (recording here), where @Ryan Barrett (NL) provided an overview of the current state of the EU DCC system and the Dutch certificate for domestic use.

:snow_capped_mountain: For GCCN: Join our next Friday’s implementers’ meeting to get an update on 1) the narrative for governments on the value of participating in the GCCN Trust Registry Network; 2) verifier strategy; and 3) GCCN Trust Registry Network back-end technical infrastructure.

🌵 No updates from any of the other LFPH teams this week.

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October 01, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead, as far as each group passes that on.

🥑 For Cardea: Last week’s Demo Day was a big success—and we are already planning future interopathons. These events really helped to identify issues and drive development. Thank you to everyone who participated. The Cardea community meeting this week will cover shortened URLs, connectionless, and governance—as well as a quick recap of where we are on the roadmap. In other related news, Indicio’s Sumiran Agarwal had a busy September—speaking at the UN General Assembly Blockchain meeting on the future of digital identity (at 6:55) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnmCuyqLh38&t=1695s

🌶️ For CCI: The CCI Steering Committee approved the proposal to restructure community groups so that we can conduct community activities more effectively. We are going provide an overview of the restructuring in our next all-member meeting on Oct 8 at 7 am PT / 2 pm UTC. The Use Case Implementation Workstream had Arjan Geluk present (recording here) the vaccination certificate extension to the ISO 18013-5 standard for Mobile Drivers Licenses (mDL), followed by a engaging community conversation on topics such as selective disclosure, sample implementations for storing FHIR objects. The Use Case Implementation Worstream will transition into the Global Implementation Forum and convene bi-weekly moving forward. At the next meeting on Oct 12 at 7 am PT / 2 pm UTC, we will have experts from The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) talk about their newly published Vaccine Administration V1.0, which is a mapping curation of minimum vaccination data elements and metadata and designed for facilitating global interoperability. The APAC group #cci-apac-group will have its next community call on Oct 6 at 9 pm PT / 12 pm HK / 9:30 am IST (an hour later than our regular time). @Ryan Barrett (NL), who is on the eHealth Network team that works on the EU DCC and a core member of the Dutch COVID app team, will provide an overview of the current state of the EU DCC system and the Dutch certificate for domestic use. Please feel free to PM @Lucy Yang (CCI) for anything specific you want to learn more through the call.

🥕 For GCCN: @Lucy Yang (CCI) and @Savita Farooqui led a discussion at the GCCN Trust Registry Network Implementers Meeting on the potential governance and business models for the Network (demo app). This is a very critical next step we need to take soon so that we can start officially forming the Network and take it to the next stage of the development.

:herald: for Herald: We have our physical wearables for testing. Design also useful for many different eHealth use cases other than DCT, including eHealth monitoring. Low cost for between $10-$25 depending on design chosen. Link to image for the wearable is here: https://lfpublichealth.slack.com/archives/C01RMEC5ZRV/p1632860435009700 We’re also completing the Exposure Notification API in the next week for C++.

🌵 No other LFPH-wide updates this week. Tune back in for big news next week though…

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September 24, 2021

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🌴 For LFPH: Had our first meeting of the disease outbreak and investigation technologies community meeting, and are working on (1) naming the group, (2) finding participants - PHAs can sign up here, and (3) Setting the agenda for the upcoming few meetings

🌳 For CCI: The Use Case Implementation Workstream had @petros kavassalis from the University of the Aegean School of Engineering share (recording here) his observations after the launch of EU DCC for cross-border travel and some gaps and opportunities he has identified in the EU market. Our next call on September 28 at 7 am PT / 2 pm UTC will have Arjan Geluk to share with us the vaccination certificate extension of the ISO standard for mobile drivers’ license. The Schema Task Force #cci-schema-tf met this week (recording here) where @Paul Knowles provided the community an update on the Overlays Capture Architecture Guideline for a Good Health Pass compatible reference implementation and feedback on the next steps for a schema repository at LFPH. The APAC group #cci-apac-group had its first call (recording here) featuring two presentations respectively on the state of vaccination certificate in Japan by @Kohei Kurihara and Thailand by@Chatchai. The Vaccine Credentials US Subgroup #cci-north-america-group host a great presentation (recording here) from John Dionne, the the Director of New Business Solutions at STCHealth, on their consumer access program through its MyIR platform, followed by an engaging Q&A session with our community members.

🌲 For GCCN: We are making improvements of the GCCN Trust Registry Network demo application while figuring out a proper governance and business model for the Network and setting up the production-level back-end infrastructure. We invite you to check out the demo app and try submitting an entry. If you have any feedback or questions, please reach out to @Savita Farooqui.

🌵 No updates from Herald or Cardea

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September 17, 2021

🎼 LFPH news:

  • Work to update the risk scoring recommendations for #exposure-notification continues - if you'd like to join in, please send a blank email to [email protected].
  • We're starting up a working group on disease outbreak technologies - see more here (or in the post right above this)

🎺 For CCI,

  • The Use Case Implementation Workstream had Erran Carmel from the American University share (recording here) a “strawperson” (draft) list of foundational requirements for Digital Health Passes, derived largely from the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint. There was very good community feedback and we are in conversation with them to continue the work at CCI. The next Workstream call on September 21 at 7 am PT / 2 pm UTC will have @petros kavassalis from the University of the Aegean School of Engineering share his observations after the launch of EU DCC for cross-border travel and some gaps he has identified in the EU domestic market.
  • The Rules Engine Task Force #cci-business-rules-tf met for the first time this week (recording here) to discuss what are the gaps in market and start defining where is the best place for our community to contribute.
  • The APAC group #cci-apac-group will have its first call on September 22 at 11 am HK / 8:30 am IST. We will have @Kohei Kurihara and @Chatchai share respectively what is going on in Japan and Thailand.

:drum_with_drumsticks: For GCCN,

  • @Lucy Yang (CCI) presented GCCN at the ESCAP/WHO Regional Workshop on Digital COVID Certificate in support of cross-border travel and tourism recovery with experts from UN, WHO, ICAO, European Commission, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, and Technical Unit of India’s National Health Authority.
  • We had the fifth GCCN Trust Registry Network Implementer’s meeting where we shared with the community our takeaways on KYC from interviews with @Marie Wallace @Jim StClair @Darrell O'Donnell and did a walkthrough of the demo app for the Network which includes a public sector entry example from the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. @Savita Farooqui and her team at SymSoft Solutions have been working hard to spin up this demo app so that we can better showcase how we envision GCCN Trust Registry Network to work.

🎷 Herald via @Adam:

  • v2.1.0-beta1 of the :herald: Herald C++ API is out. Features improved memory usage and reliability, and sending sensor information to a nearby monitoring device over bluetooth (useful for in-office testing and demonstrations of DCT wearables). Also allows Herald C++ apps to customise the Bluetooth adverts and services running, allowing Herald to be used alongside your own services/characteristics with an easy platform agnostic API.Release here: https://github.com/theheraldproject/herald-for-cpp/releases/tag/v2.1.0-beta1
  • Next we're completing the Exposure Notification API for Herald ready for a full v2.1.0 release on all platforms (C++, Java/Android, Swift/iOS).

September 10, 2021

🧵 The #cardea Interop-athon was a big success—not only in proving interoperability but in discovering glitches that prevented it. Keep an eye on the LFPH blog next week for more on the event—we’ll be discussing some of the technical aspects in detail in future Cardea meetings, but first—DemoDay on the 23rd will showcase Interop-athon participants interoperating!

🪡 For CCI,

  • Application for our 2021 Steering Committee Members Election is open until 11:59 pm PT on September 15. We made it open this week the candidate marking sheet for applicants to refer to when preparing their CVs and Written/Video Pitches.
  • We launched our APAC group #cci-apac-group this week which will be led by three co-leads @Kohei Kurihara @Karl Stemp @Chatchai from the region. You can access the recording here and review the slides here. The first community call will start in two weeks on September 22 (Wednesday) at 11 am HK / 8:30 am IST.
  • At the Schema Task Force #cci-schema-tf call (recording here), @Paul Knowles led a discussion around “COVID-19 Antigen Test Credential” attributes using Canada as an example. There was also an open discussion regarding the data capture requirements for lab developed tests (LDTs) and genomic sequencing, LOINC for whole genome sequencing of SARS-C0v-2 brought up by @Richard Bookman.
  • The US Vaccine Credential Subgroup #cci-vaccinecredentialsfg-us met (recording here) to discuss what should the group focus on moving forward and how we can keep providing value. We had consensus from the group that we were going to expand the conversation to beyond vaccine credential and rename the group to become the North American Group. Similar to the APAC group, we will keep working with the community members to identify topics and have presentations and conversations relevant to the region.
  • The Use Case Implementation Workstream’s next call on September 14 at 7 am PT / 2 pm UTC will have two professors from American University and University of Arkansas to share a “strawperson” (draft) list of 22 foundational requirements for Digital Health Passes, derived largely from the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint. They are seeking volunteers to help finalize the requirements and then provide assessment.

🧶 For GCCN,

  • @John Walker and @Savita Farooqui are working to define the KYC process for the GCCN Trust Registry Network. They have made the updates to the public sector entry example while looking for an example from a private organization. We are going to have another implementers meeting next Friday at 8 am PT / 3 pm UTC to provide the community an update and get input.

September 04, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should ping the contacts listed here.

:herald: The first update is from Herald @Adam: Herald released v2.0 of the C++ API and are already working on the Exposure Notification API for Herald v2.1

🌲 The second update is from Covid Credentials Initiative @Lucy Yang (CCI): The Use Case Implementation Workstream call (recording here) had @sankarshan provide an update on the Governance Framework Template. To learn more about how to contribute to this at the Rules and Governance Workstream, see here. CCI launched the application for its 2021 Steering Committee Members Election. More details, please see here. Apply here. We are launching our APAC group next Tuesday (September 7) at 11 am HK / 8:30 am IST. Sign up here.

🌳 The third update is from Global COVID Certificate Network @Lucy Yang (CCI): We have further refined the entry attribute naming of the GCCN Trust Registry Network based on a public sector example from the Netherlands. You can see the example here. We are having interviews with potential GCCN Trust Registry Network participants regarding vetting process definition. We expect to have two more interviews next week.

🌴 The fourth update is from Cardea @Trevor Butterworth: Just a reminder that there’s still time to join the Interop-athon! Taking place next week on Sept 9 over four hours. We already have nine participants, but there’s room for more! You can RSVP here and tell us what you want to test—and also who and what you’d like to test against https://forms.gle/9XVU7D2L1EBYTwsD6

🌵 The fifth update is from #tac @Jenny Wanger: We had a really excellent #tac conversation this week about what potential directions we could take with future projects - notes, video

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August 27, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should ping the contacts listed here.

:herald: The first update is from Herald @Adam: Big announcement from The Herald Project: Singapore GovTech have donated OpenTrace to The Herald Project! OpenTrace was one of the first Digital Contact Tracing (DCT) systems in the world. The announcement is now live!!! Our tweet: https://twitter.com/HeraldProximity/status/1430080143356268544 Our blog post: https://heraldprox.io/blog/opentrace-donation OpenTrace page on our website: https://heraldprox.io/opentrace Updated home page too: https://heraldprox.io/ Herald has also had extra inbound with people wanting reliable bluetooth for other healthcare use cases. If anyone is thinking of a new/unique use for Bluetooth or proximity in healthcare, please do reach out.

🎯 The second update is from Cardea @Trevor Butterworth: We have nine participants for our Interop-athon on September 9! We will be emailing participants soon with details of the event and how it will take place. We’ve also added a follow-up event for participants to demonstrate the results of the Interop-athon. Demo Day will take place on September 23, 10am to 12pm Mountain Time.

:snow_capped_mountain: The third update is from Covid Credentials Initiative @Lucy Yang (CCI): The Use Case Implementation Workstream call had @Rj Reiser from Liquid Avatar present (recording here) their Verifiable Credential Ecosystem and how they are implementing it in Canada for COVID credentials. At the Schema Task Force call (recording here), @Paul Knowles did an in-depth distillation on some of the differences in data capture recommendations between the WHO specification and the eHealth Network’s guidelines on verifiable vaccination certificates. The US Vaccine Credential Subgroup call (recording here) had @Daniel J. Lee from Kokomo24/7 present how they are helping ~70 enterprises/employers reopen workplaces and businesses in the US with their solution. CCI hosted the August all-member meeting, walkthrough the community through the 2021 Steering Committee election process and providing updates on key activities and decisions.

🌐 The fourth update is from Global COVID Certificate Network @Lucy Yang (CCI) Yang: The Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports is involved in the development of the Global COVID Certificate Network and interested in participating in our proof of concept. @John Walker and @Savita Farooqui spoke with @Dirk-Willem van Gulik and @Ryan Barrett (NL) from the Ministry this week to keep improving the starting definition.

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August 20, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what's coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should ping the contacts listed here.

📇 The first update is from Cardea @Trevor Butterworth: Our big news for this week is we’ll run an “Interop-athon” for Cardea on September 9, 8:00am to 12:00pm Mountain Time (UTC -6:00). We will stand up a test environment including an Issuer, Mediator, Government, and Verifier Agents for participants to test against. RSVP here and tell us what you want to test—and also who and what you’d like to test against https://forms.gle/9XVU7D2L1EBYTwsD6

:herald: The second update is from Herald @Adam: Hi all. Today Herald passed a vote in the TAC to be promoted from a Level 2 to a Level 3 project! Wonderful news for a project that's only 13 months old. Our big-big news will be next week.

⚔️ The third update is from Covid Credentials Initiative @Lucy Yang (CCI): @Kaliya Identity Woman walked the community through the recently released WHO DDCC Vaccination Status tech specs and implementation guidance at the Use Case Implementation Workstream call (recording here). The Rules and Governance Workstream has released the CCI Credentials Governance Framework Template, seeking different types of contribution from the community. For more information, please check out the document and attend the next workstream call on August 24 at 8 am PT / 3 pm UTC. CCI is going to host the next all-member meeting on August 27 at 7 am PT / 2pm UTC. One key agenda item is to walkthrough the 2021 Steering Committee election process.

The fourth update is from Global COVID Certificate Network @Lucy Yang (CCI) Yang: We had an implementer’s meeting on August 20 to share with the community new findings for the starting definition of the GCCN Trust Registry Network and discussed the current priority. @Lucy Yang (CCI) and @John Walker were invited to speak at the Trust Over IP Foundation’s all member meeting - trust registry special edition about the business and technical development of the GCCN Trust Registry Network.

🐚 No updates for MedCreds this week

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August 13, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should ping the contacts listed here.

🚆 The first update is from Covid Credentials Initiative @Lucy Yang (CCI): The Use Case Implementation Workstream call (recording here) had @Lal (iGrant.io) demonstrate their “Data for COVID” solution to convert COVID vaccination certificates to secure wallet-stored digital credentials ready for exchange. On the Schema Task Force call (recording here) @Paul Knowles provided an update on the GHP-aligned schema specifications the TF is working on. The Rules and Governance Workstream met (recording here) to discuss the plan of action for the Workstream and how to get community input for the CCI Credentials Governance Framework Template. The workstream will soon start to organize conversations on a subset of governance-related topics. If you have any topics to suggest or speakers to recommend, please reach out to @sankarshan. The Vaccine Credentials US Subgroup convened (recording here) to discuss what the group can do to respond to the increasing demand for COVID certificate solutions for domestic reopening and reached the conclusion that we needed to have a bigger voice to educate the market what is the right way to go.

🚃 The second update is from Global COVID Certificate Network @Lucy Yang (CCI) Yang: @John Walker and @Savita Farooqui are conducting interviews with candidate entries of the GCCN Trust Registry Network to further evaluate the starting definition of the Network.

🚎 The third update is from Cardea @Trevor Butterworth: The big news this week was the implementation of a Cardea based credential for testing in Toronto—a joint Indicio, Liquid Avatar and Vector Health solution: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/indicio-and-liquid-avatar-technologies-launch[…]ntralized-technology-for-sharing-health-data-301353144.html The Cardea Community Group was presented with the first draft of a governance framework, which will shortly be available for comment on Cardea. app—which by the way, has been revamped to provide easier access to the Github repository, the Cardea Playbook, and the Community meeting Zoom login: https://cardea.app

:scooter: No updates from MedCreds this week

:herald: Stay tuned for a big update from Herald next week!

// Thank you again to all of our contributors, please contact #community-ops or post here with any questions or additions to these updates. Compiled by @Sara D

August 06, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should ping the contacts listed here.

🥕 The first update is from MedCreds @Tony Rose: app.proofengage.io is up and running, the first commercial instance of MedCreds. We’re also looking for a new community manager to help lead the project as Michael Richardson has made a decision to move on to new projects so it’s a great opportunity to get involved in an SSI project.

🌶️ The second update is from Covid Credentials Initiative @Lucy Yang (CCI): CCI All-Member Meeting July (slides here) took place on July 30, providing the community members key updates on CCI membership, governance and activities. The next one will be on August 27. Join CCI to receive the invite for the August meeting. @John Walker led a discussion at this week’s Use Case Implementation Workstream call (recording here) regarding his proposal to form a Rules Engine Task Force under this Workstream. The next step is to flesh out the proposal and have it reviewed by the Steering Committee next week. The Schema Task Force is meeting again on August 9. If you want feedback on the schema you are implementing, please reach out to @Paul Knowles.

🍅 The third update is from Global COVID Certificate Network @Lucy Yang (CCI) Yang: GCCN Trust Registry Network Implementers met on August 5 and had a further discussion regarding the definition and MVP of the Network with a particular focus on some potential challenges for real-world implementation. To stay tuned and receive a recurring calendar invite, join mailing list [email protected]

🍀 The fourth update is from Covid Green @Colm Harte: An Ireland digital covid cert verifier app was added into Covid Green.

:herald: The fifth update is from Herald @Adam: @Anna is working on looking at the future of digital contact tracing and has a call out to talk to PHAs or app developers/solution providers about their needs (E.g. when GAEN is shut down). https://lfpublichealth.slack.com/archives/C01CLUZN9AR/p1628075012004700 We just held our first international committers meeting with all existing and newly elected committers to the project! Great momentum on wearable hardware design, wearable software development, and end to end system software design going on. We’re moving fast now toward v2.1 Exposure Notification API to multiple diseases, and sync of exposure risk between wearables and phones!

🥑 The sixth update is from Cardea @Trevor Butterworth: We are working on completing our final repository. We have added two more community videos to the Cardea channel on YouTube—July 15 (Schemas) and July 22 More on Schemas and the Cardea Playbook https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3LvHy3eIPslC7YhQGXKPN4LvS3ekqfqE. We have one more round of discussion and edits on the Cardea Schemas for next week’s Cardea Community Meeting.

🥒 No updates from DCC this week.

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July 30, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should contact the leads listed here.

🌶️ The first update is from Covid Credentials Initiative @Lucy Yang (CCI): The Use Case Implementation Workstream had @Ryan Barrett (NL) from the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport present (recording here) to the community CoronaCheck, the Dutch COVID certificate app (holder app and verifier app). The community showed great interest in privacy and security choices. For relevant information, please see Security Architecture in Dutch and Privacy Preserving Domestic Green Card in English. We are working to organize a special session to discuss these choices further. Stay tuned. The Schema Task Force of the Use Case Implementation Workstream started meeting every other week with the first meeting (recording here) focusing on updating the community on the current status of the schema specifications. The Vaccine Credentials US Subgroup call (recording here) had Steve Murchie, the CEO of Envision Technology Partners, share background information regarding Envision’s current discussion with New York’s Excelsior Pass initiative with respect to the planned interface of ‘out of state’ Envision customers providing QR encoded COVID immunization records to the Excelsior platform.

🍅 The second update is from Global COVID Certificate Network @Lucy Yang (CCI): GCCN Trust Registry Network Implementers will be meeting again next week. To stay tuned and receive calendar invite, join mailing list [email protected]

🥒 The third update is from DCC @Gaby Whitehead (NL). EU DCC is cleaning up web hosting for their git repositories.

🥕 No updates from MedCreds this week

:herald: No updates from Herald this week

🥑 No updates from Cardea this week

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July 23, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what's coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should contact the leads listed here.

👻 The first update is from Covid Credentials Initiative (#cci) @Lucy Yang (CCI): The Use Case Implementation Workstream had a great call (recording here) on July 20 getting the community aligned on the broadening and deepening scope of the Workstream. @John Walker provided an introduction to the template LFPH is using to define the MVP for the GCCN Trust Registry Network during the second half of the call. The next call on July 27, @Ryan Barrett (NL) from the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport will present the Dutch COVID Certificate app to the community. The Schema Task Force of the Use Case Implementation Workstream will start meeting regularly every other week to address two important issues, semantic harmonization and internationalization, following the completion of the drafting of the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint. The next call will be on July 26 at 8 am PT / 3 pm UTC. The Vaccine Credentials US Subgroup call on July 29 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET will have Steve Murchie, the CEO of Envision Technology Partners to speak to the community. Envision has a web-based, database-driven immunization registry system, WebIZTM, which is currently implemented at numerous state and local government agencies in the US and internationally.

:robot_face: The second update is from Global COVID Certificate Network (#gccn) @Lucy Yang (CCI): LFPH hosted the second implementers meeting for the GCCN Trust Registry Network on July 23, sharing the insights from three interviews we did with implementers and getting community input on what would make an entry for the MVP.

🤡 The third update is from DCC (#eu-digital-green-certificates-dev) @Gaby Whitehead (NL): A new valueset released including Covishield etc: https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/ehn-dcc-valuesets/releases/tag/2.0.0 Related / of interest but not directly to do with EU DCC: large data leak at a test provider in NL: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5242193/valse-coronacheck-bewijzen-datalek-testcoronanu&prev=search&pto=aue

👾 The fourth update is from Cardea (#cardea) @Trevor Butterworth: We are still working on the Cardea schema, and will likely wrap up next week after much useful discussion. Then we will move on to machine readable governance. Cardea also debuted its playbook and will soon update its website with additional information.

👹 No updates from MedCreds (#lfph-medcreds-general) this week

👽 No updates from Herald (#herald-general) this week

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July 16, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should contact the leads listed here.

:flag-eu: The first update is from DCC @Gaby Whitehead (NL). The final regulations for DCC were posted https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021D1073

🎯 The second update is from MedCreds @Tony Rose: We have finished the first round of streamlining of the new developer onboarding cookbook and are taking the first two new developers through it in the next 1-2 weeks. We will publish the onboarding videos once we’ve finished successful developer onboarding with developer environment set up. Our goal is new developers can have a full instance of MedCreds running in a developer environment in less than 3 hours. We have also established the first running instance of “MedCreds inside” utilizing the open source code, a brand new instance from scratch at app.proofengage.io. We’re still running it through testing and plan to open it up for anyone to establish their own “Engage, with MedCreds inside” wallet soon!

:herald: The third update is from Herald @Adam: The Herald hardware prototypes are now undergoing full assembly! Half are Bluetooth DCT, accelerometer and light (RGB-IR) sensor main board only, half also have a daughter board for skin temperature, heart rate, and blood oxidation too. We’ll start testing the sensors (we may have assembled them wrong!) and then work on the full DCT wearable app in the next few weeks! We will need donations in order to perform a full ‘production ready’ demo run when we have them all working. Please encourage anyone you know to donate funds to our project: https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/9e9b1ee2-23a8-44a5-83bc-e657fd4464ad

🚀 The fourth update is from Covid Credentials Initiative @Lucy Yang (CCI): On the Use Case Implementation Workstream call (recording here), @Lucy Yang (CCI) and @Savita Farooqui presented the GCCN User Flow V1 and identified potential areas of work and discussions that the CCI community could take on to contribute to the GCCN work and/or extend it to broader use cases. The attendees ask great questions and provided valuable insights from their own experience implementing COVID certificates. The Vaccine Credentials US Subgroup had an open discussion about the US Federal agencies where the group could influence activities or look for funded opportunities, followed by a discussion of the GCCN User Flow V1 (recording here).

🌐 The fifth update is from Global COVID Certificate Network @Lucy Yang (CCI): LFPH released the Global COVID Certificate Network (GCCN) User Flow V1 which focuses on demonstrating how GCCN will operationalize one of the core overarching recommendations of the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint - the use of “a pass (that) encapsulates a business decision and only contains the data required to make that decision, filtering out all other unnecessary and sensitive personal health information.

💡 The sixth update is from Cardea @Trevor Butterworth: This week, the Cardea working group discussed and agreed on vaccination exemptions for the Cardea schema (video of the meeting via Cardea.app soon). Next week we’ll tie up some loose threads and dive into discussion of how to handle the formats for machine readable governance rules. We’ve also just published an article on the importance of machine readable governance for overall governance, which includes reference to our experience implementing Cardea in Aruba: https://indicio.tech/blog/the-decentralized-identity-revolution-is-powered-by-machine-readable-governance/

// Thank you again to all of our contributors, please contact #community-ops or post here with any questions or additions to these updates. We are also looking for community action items for our next meeting. (Compiled by @Sara D)

July 09, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should contact the leads listed here.

First, some housekeeping: :calendar: LFPH has moved its public calendar. You can still see all upcoming events at lfph.io/calendar, but if you were subscribed to the old calendar you’ll need to update your subscription address to get the new events.

On to the updates: :dart: The first update is from MedCreds @Tony Rose: There will be a special guest speaker next week, from BC Gov, on JSON-LD BBS+ credentials. Find out more in the #lfph-medcreds-general channel!

🌐 The second update is from the Public Health Advisory Council @Jenny Wanger: The Public Health Advisory Council met last week and discussed what their attention is shifting to now that COVID systems are all generally established. The notes are available here.

🚀 The third update is from Covid Credentials Initiative @Lucy Yang (CCI): For CCI: As of July 9, 20 organizations and 26 individuals have signed up to become CCI members. We will follow up with organizational members next week for logo collections. For those who want to participate in CCI activities and contribute to community projects but haven’t signed the CCI membership agreement yet, please do so ASAP and follow the instructions here. For GCCN: We had a successful and well-attended GCCN intro webinar for the APAC region. To review the recording and slides, visit here.

:herald: The fourth update is from Herald @Adam: We now have 5 committers after our election which finished early today. Existing and new committers listed here: theheraldproject/theheraldproject.github.io#79 (comment) - There’s now no blocker to us becoming a Stage 3 LFPH project (other than the vote on that, obvs! LOL)

:snow_capped_mountain: The fifth update is from Cardea @Trevor Butterworth: The Cardea Community Group rolled up its sleeves and dug into the development roadmap, having prioritized items for July delivery. All but one of the repos has been transferred to LFPH. We plowed through the Cardea schema on Thursday (video soon), reconciling it with Good Health Pass Recommendations. We will cover exemption schemas in next week’s meeting. Updates and details at Cardea.app!

:flag-eu: The sixth update is from DCC @Gaby Whitehead (NL). The EU DCC is a going concern with nearly universal adoption in the EU zone. Very few issues with this and a great volume of interest in working with the DCC from outside the EU.

// Thank you again to all of our contributors, please contact #community-ops or post here with any questions or additions to these updates. And thanks to @Sara D for compiling this update!

July 02, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what's coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should contact the leads listed here.

🚀 The first update is from MedCreds @Tony Rose: Michael Richardson has updates on our community meeting schedule, and developer onboarding process. We are ready to bring on new contributors and the first activities will be to set up the LFPH instance and demo environment of LFPH MedCreds

🍍No updates from DCC this week

🏎️ The second update is from Covid Credentials Initiative @Lucy Yang (CCI): For COVID Credentials Initiative #cci CCI launched its membership agreement. To continue participate in and contribute to CCI work (including all Slack channels starting with #cci, please sign up as a member, which is free to both organizations (Steering Member Level) and individuals (Contributor Level). More instructions here. CCI Use Case Implementation Workstream Call (recording here) on June 29 featured the demonstration from @Mukund Parthasarathy and @John Walker on how to transform an FHIR immunization bundle to a W3C-compliant Verifiable Credential after being piped through Overlay Capture Architecture (OCA) to enable multi-language credentialing. The Vaccine Credentials US Subgroup convened (recording here) this week to have an open discussion on some existing Smart Health Cards implementations and what the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint could mean for the US, followed by a presentation from Bindle on their experience implementing the Blueprint recommendations and partnership with performance venues around the US and various employers. For Global COVID Certificate Network #gccn An introductory webinar was hosted (recording and slides here) this week to provide our community an overview of GCCN, its immediate next steps and some recent progress since its launch. The same webinar is coming up on July 6 for the APAC region. The first GCCN Trust Registry Network Implementers Meeting took place with over 20 attendees, including many from the interested implementers who spoke about their work in implementing trust registries and their thoughts regarding an MVP for the Network. For follow this work, please join #gccn-trust-registry-network

:herald: No updates from Herald this week

🎯 The third update is from Cardea @Trevor Butterworth: The first meeting of the Cardea Steering Committee met on Friday, approved a governance charter, and decided on roadmap development priorities: you can see those at Cardea.app. Our newest Cardea Community Group Meeting is now available—we delve into app data collection and identity verification. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGEbMI-UWCQ We’ve also created our first promo video for Cardea—you can watch it here https://youtu.be/JHeu0DiLAkg Next week’s Community Group Meeting is going to revisit schemas—namely to reach a consensus on what Cardea’s schema should look like.

// Thank you again to all of our contributors, please contact #community-ops or post here with any questions or additions to these updates. And thanks to @Sara D for compiling this update.

note: updates between 21 MAY 2021 and 02 JUL 2021 were unfortunately not archived

May 21, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community on what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should contact the project leads listed here.

:herald: The first update is from Herald @Adam: Herald is growing, with more and more volunteers which is our ideal at LFPH; including 5 VMware volunteers who are contributing their swing time to help out with Herald. More volunteers are always welcome! They are also working on v2.0 this week with a focus on CI best practices and published packages for all software repos.

🏂 The second update is from Covid Credentials Initiative @Lucy Yang (CCI): CCI Use Case Implementation Workstream Biweekly call on May 25 (7 am PT/2 pm UTC) has invited @David Chadwick to present Simple Universal Verifier (SUV), a solution proposed to solve today’s situation where there are many different Verifiable Credential (VC) wallets that support different cryptographic mechanisms, different schemas, different trust schemes and different policies (for requesting VCs).

🗺️ The third update is from MedCreds @Tony Rose: MedCreds is a digital verifiable credential that allows the user to carry a medical test result and verify it to others. It is based on blockchain and cryptography technology and is open source. They are having their weekly community call at 10 am PT Thursday. Message @Tony Rose for the link.

🏛️ The fourth update is from Cardea, an API that supports electronic health records, @Trevor Butterworth: We’ve begun migration of the Cardea repos to LFPH; our second Cardea Community meeting covering agents had a great turnout—29 people—and simultaneous translation into Russian! Next week’s meeting will cover schemas. We also presented Cardea to the ToIP Ecosystem Working Group and got a very positive response. We’ve started mapping out the development roadmap—and there’s plenty of work to do! We welcome all support!

🌐 Other Activities none

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 #community-ops Many of you have done this already (thank you!) but for those who haven’t yet, please take a moment to update your Slack profile so it contains all relevant info. For example, by adding your name and affiliation you provide context to your contributions and make it easier for others, especially new community members, to engage. Much obliged! We appreciate your comments and suggestions on how to further improve these weekly updates. If anything comes to mind, message us anytime.

Welcome back, @Sara D, and thank you for your work on this weekly update!

May 14, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community on what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should contact the project leads listed here.

🚗 CovidGreen (via @colmharte) no updates this week

:herald: Herald (via @Adam) Website is transferred! It should be live on https://heraldprox.io/ in the coming hours. upcoming code changes for v2.0 (incl. some breaking changes) detailed here

🏎️ Covid Credentials Initiative (CCI, via @Lucy Yang (CCI))

This week: CCI Use Case Implementation Workstream call hosted a great presentation by @Gaby Whitehead (NL), which provided a comprehensive overview of the current Digital Green Certificate development (slides and recording).

Upcoming: CCI Rules and Governance Workstream call on Tuesday (May 18) will work to put final touches on the first draft of CCI Governance Framework V3 for community review and feedback. CCI Vaccine Credentials US Subgroup will convene next Thursday (May 20) to discuss open source tools the community can help build at LFPH to facilitate easy integration with trusted data sources for credentials in the US.

🚙 Cardea (via @Trevor Butterworth) no updates this week

🚓 MedCreds (via @Tony Rose)

This week: Ongoing call for developers, designers and product leaders for the MedCreds application: If you want to get involved in shaping and delivering the roadmap, head on over to #lfph-medcreds-general

Upcoming: engagement with Good Health Pass public comment coming next week

🚔 #sig-design (via @Elle Marcus) User Flow: no updates this week Branding Task Force: no updates this week

🌐 Other Activities upcoming WeHealth seminar on Tuesday (18 May 2021), details here

🚝 #community-ops please take a moment to update your Slack profile so it contains all relevant info. For example, by adding your name and affiliation you provide context to your contributions and make it easier for others, especially new community members, to engage. Thank you! We’d love to hear your views on these weekly updates. Helpful? Interesting? Room for growth? What are you missing?

May 7, 2021

// This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should contact the project leads listed here.

🍏 CovidGreen (via @colmharte) no updates this week

:kiwifruit: Herald (via @Adam) no updates this week

🍊 Covid Credentials Initiative (CCI, via @Lucy Yang (CCI))

This week: CCI submitted a response to the Call for Evidence: UK Parliament Covid 19 Vaccine Certification. CCI Schema Task Force (#cci-schema-tf) hosted an engaging discussion following @Paul Knowles’s presentation on EU-defined minimum viable value sets for three COVID-19 profile credentials (recording here). @Kaliya Identity Woman walked the US subgroup (#cci-vaccinecredentialsfg-us) through the Good Health Pass Collaborative Interoperability Blueprint V1 and collected feedback (recording here). The draft will soon be ready for public review.

Upcoming: CCI Use Case Implementation Workstream Bi-weekly Call on Tuesday, May 11 at 7 am PT /2 pm UTC will have @Gaby Whitehead (NL) present to the community about the European eHealth Network Digital Green Development

🍍 Cardea (via @Trevor Butterworth) Cardea is a a complete open-source ecosystem for the exchange of privacy-preserving digital health credentials. They have a community page up (Cardea.app), and the headline news is the public announcement of the first reference implementation https://www.sita.aero/pressroom/news-releases/sita-indicio-pave-way-to-safer-travel-experience-with-launch-of-aruba-health-app/ first community meeting is scheduled on the LFPH calendar for 13 May 2021 (details here)

🥭 MedCreds (via @Tony Rose) Call for developers and product designers for the MedCreds application: they’re in the process of moving the code to the LFPH repository and would love to find developers and product people who would want to get involved in shaping and delivering the roadmap. #lfph-medcreds-general

🍓 #sig-design (via @Elle Marcus) User Flow: Meeting to discuss interview insights and user flow on Friday (“today”) at 10am EST. Aiming to release the first version (not draft) of their report next week. It will not have any app design yet (maybe just showing the dashboard), but will feature best practices based on the literature reviews and research. Future drafts of the report will include a more extensive app design. Needed: Developers to give feedback on the user flow. Please get in touch! Branding Task Force: Meeting early next week, time tbd (see here)

🥑 #community-ops Meeting on Friday (“today”) at 1pm EST. Please join if you’re interested. Details here.

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April 30, 2021

//This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Interested contributors should contact the project leads listed here.

1️⃣ The first update is from Herald, which released a new version and is also running under a new twitter handle @HeraldProximity. Via Adam Fowler @Adam: New in Herald v1.3

  • Detection of other Digital Contact Tracing (#DCT) protocols and payloads. To facilitate interoperability across borders, Herald now also detects BlueTrace based apps and GAEN based apps and logs their contacts on your phone/wearable.
  • Exposure Risk estimation support. We’ve implemented a basic log-distance risk integration function to calculate an exposure score for each nearby device running Herald.
  • Wearables and beacons! Thanks to @mishkathebear Herald now has some great opensource hardware designs. We have designs for DCT wearables, eHealth monitoring wearables, and Bluetooth MESH beacons.
  • Distance Conversion from Bluetooth RSSI. See the distance between two phones running the Herald demo app. A similar feature may appear in your country’s #DCT app soon.
  • Analysis API for all platforms. Allows scientists to create, test, and deploy data analysis algorithms to mobile phones and wearables. Immediate uses are accurate and regular distance conversion from RSSI, and risk calculation for COVID-19 and Ebola.

2️⃣ The second update is from the Covid-19 Credentials Initiative, via @Lucy Yang (CCI):

This week:

  • Two open source proposals, ProofMarket’s Medcreds and Indicio.Tech’s Cardea were approved by the Technical Advisory Committee and accepted into LFPH as two projects. More details to come soon.
  • CCI released the summary report of its summit: From Closed Loop Systems to Open World COVID Credentials Exchange.
  • CCI Use Case Implementation Workstream hosted a well-attended call (recording here), featuring two presentations: South Korea’s national vaccination verification system and Mapping FHIR to JSON-LD with W3C Vaccination Vocabulary

Upcoming:

  • Consolidate community input and submit response to Call for Evidence: UK Parliament Covid 19 Vaccine Certification.
  • CCI Schema Task Force is hosting an ad-hoc call on Monday at 10 am PT/5 pm UTC to go through the EU-defined minimum viable value sets for the following COVID-19 profile credentials: vaccination credential, test credential, and recovery credential.

3️⃣ The third update is from Covid Green via @colmharte. They are adding support for Huawei’s contact tracing software.

4️⃣ And the fourth update is from #sig-design via @Elle Marcus, which began design on a vaccine credentials app based on QR codes and are looking for developers.

✨ As always many thanks to @Sara D for putting this together! Anyone interested in helping grow our community and make LFPH a better place should head over to #community-ops.

April 23, 2021

//This is the LFPH Weekly Update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what's coming in the week ahead.

  • The first update is from @Elle Marcus with the #sig-design group. Sig design completed a user survey of mobile tickets and mobile wallets to provide insight into user interaction with vaccine credential applications. The survery found that 75% of users perfer mobile tickets to paper tickets, though 82% of users perfer physical credit cards to mobile wallet applications. Interested contributors should join #sig-design

  • The second update is from the Covid-19 Credentials Initiative, via @Lucy Yang (CCI):

  • This week:

    • Two CCI participating organizations, ProofMarket and Indicio.Tech submitted their proposals [1] [2] to contribute code to LFPH and presented to the Technical Advisory Committee (recording here).
    • Attended Internet Identity Workshop and hosted three sessions that provided an update of CCI’s work, discussed CCI’s challenges and learning, and presented open source proposals (slides here).

  • Upcoming:

    • CCI Use Case Implementation Workstream Call next Tuesday (7 am PT/ 2pm UTC) will host two presentations: Blockchain Labs to demonstrate South Korea’s newly launched national vaccination certificate system and @John Walker to present his work in “Mapping FHIR to JSON-LD with W3C Vaccination Vocabulary”. Call for Evidence: UK Parliament Covid 19 Vaccine Certification is still open for community input. Join #cci-uk-call-for-evidence if you are interested in contributing.
    • Summary report to come soon for CCI Summit: From Closed Loop Systems to Open World Credentials Exchange.

  • The third update is from Herald, which had a well attended webinar on Thursday on the value of non-GAEN exposure notification, led by @Adam. Recording here.

  • The fourth update is from Covid Green, which is improving chaff support and other network security maintenance via @colmharte.

  • And the fifth update is from @Thomas Augsten [DE] SAP with the #qr-venue-checkin group. They are working on presence tracing, which addresses the potential for airborne transmission of Covid-19 in indoor spaces by notifying someone of potential exposure if they have been to the same venue at a similar time as a positively tested individual. Interested contributors should join #qr-venue-checkin. Github summary here https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/master/event_registration.md

As always many thanks to @Sara D for putting this together! Anyone interested in helping grow our community and make LFPH a better place should head over to #community-ops.

April 16, 2021

//This is the new weekly LFPH update. It includes updates from our community regarding what was achieved in the past week, and what’s coming in the week ahead. Please ping #community-ops if there are any project leads we’ve missed.

🎯 The first update is from Covid Green, they are planning a reverse contact tracing effort and interested contributors should get in touch with @colmharte. Reverse contact tracing finds Covid-19 infection vectors using data.

🎯 The second update is from the Covid-19 Credentials Initiative, via @Lucy Yang (CCI):

This week:

  • Responded to the Release Candidate 1 of the WHO Interim Guidance for Developing a Smart Vaccination Certificate, which has taken into consideration comments from the community members.
  • Hosted CCI Summit: From Closed Loop Systems to Open World Credentials Exchange, facilitating collaboration among existing Covid health status systems and identifying tools LFPH can build to support the collaborations.
  • Had an EU-themed session on the Digital Green Certificate and strategies to a more decentralized approach at the member state level. A CCI EU subgroup is in discussion #cci-prep-eu-subgroup.

Upcoming:

  • Produce a summit report summarizing the main discussions and suggest next steps
  • Respond to Call for Evidence: UK Parliament Covid 19 Vaccine Certification. Join #cci-uk-call-for-evidence if you are interested in contributing
  • Attend Internet Identity Workshop to share our learning from the Covid credentials space.

🎯 The third update is from Herald, a non-GAEN (Google Apple Exposure Notification) contact tracing system which specializes in high-resolution bluetooth-to-bluetooth proximity and distance measurement. It was contributed to LFPH by VMware last month under an open-source license and is similar to OpenTrace. Herald is in active development and features a watch-like wearable which is in the prototype phase. Interested contributors should contact @Ads. This project reached a major milestone with Herald integration within Alberta, Canada’s contact tracing app TraceTogether v2.0, which went live on Tuesday.

//This update was compiled by @Sara D (thank you!) and we’d love to hear from all of you in the LFPH community how to evolve this new weekly feature. Thanks for reading!