LFPH Updates Asia Pacific on Progress and Plans
In February 2021 it was a pleasure for me to moderate an expert panel, discussing how Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) is building, securing and sustaining open source software to help public…
Working Together On What “Good” Looks Like
On Tuesday, the Good Health Pass Collaborative (GHPC) launched. This initiative is intended to define, in the context of test results and vaccination records for opening up borders for travel and commerce,…
A Path Towards Interoperability: CCI Released a Paper on Different Flavors of Verifiable Credentials
Following the letter last week to the Biden Administration, the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI) is releasing “Verifiable Credentials Flavors Explained”, a mini white paper written by CCI’s Ecosystems Director, Kaliya Young, also…
Project Herald Joins LFPH to Add Non-GAEN Option for Exposure Notification Technologies
Today, the Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) Technical Advisory Council (TAC) voted to accept Herald, a VMware-originated project, as the fourth LFPH-hosted project. Herald joins COVID Green and COVID Shield, which were…
Our Letter to Washington D.C. on Verifiable Credentials and Vaccination Records
Today, LFPH published a letter to Jeffrey Zients, head of the White House’s cross-agency COVID-19 response team, copying many of the other senior leaders in the U.S. executive branch offices leading the…
LFPH extends exposure risk notifications playbook to privacy-driven vaccination credentials by hosting the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative Brian Behlendorf becomes new LFPH executive director New Public Health Authority commitments and membership investments New…
LFPH Announces Results of COVID Green and COVID Shield Security Audits
Earlier this year, the Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) began the process of performing third-party security audits for two COVID-19 exposure notifications apps. The audits were performed to improve the overall security…
EU Overcomes Exposure Notification Hurdle, Launches Interoperability Service
Building applications that alert people in Europe who have been exposed to others with COVID-19 will now be easier thanks to a recent development by a group of EU countries, led by…
We mourn the passing of Dan Kohn
Nov. 30 Update: The scholarship fund for Dan’s children is now available and we are also collecting donations to Wildlife SOS in his memory. You can learn more about both of these…
Digital Contact Tracing and Alerting vs Exposure Notification
This article was originally published by Harper Reed on April 22, 2020 on his blog. We republish it here because LFPH continues to get inquiries about the difference in terminology and language…