Today the Good Health Pass Collaborative (GHPC) unveiled its Blueprint to enable interoperability between the various COVID-19 digital health certificates and credentials being issued to enable travel. The GHPC was founded in February by ID2020 and is a collaborative of more than 125 organizations, including IBM, Hyperledger, The International Chamber of Commerce, Mastercard, and SITA.
Imagine you work at the check-in for an international airline and all the different formats of COVID-19 vaccine or health certificates you’re expected to process. How do you have time to check whether each one is a counterfeit or not? That ease of copying a paper certificate is one of the reasons for the development of digital health passes, which can be verified and also issued in paper form.
A lack of interoperability between digital passes presents massive risks. There are life and death issues with COVID-19. As tourists travel around the world, if the test certificate is fake, they can spread the virus further and extend its duration with the associated loss of life.
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