We have exciting news to share: CCI has a home now! When the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI) was formed in April 2020, we were a self-organizing group of companies and individuals, held together by a few mailing lists and working groups, to explore how Verifiable Credentials (VCs), an open standard…

Tangem, a CCI participating company extended the use of their NFC-enabled cards from storing digital currencies to verifiable credentials James Loperfido, Director of Business Development @Tangem Edited by Celia Yeung, Chief Marketing Officer @ID Lynx; Coordination & Comms @CCI We are all painfully aware of the economic and social restrictions…

The COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI): Bringing emerging privacy-preserving technology to a public health crisis Kaliya Young, Identity Woman, Co-Founder of the Internet Identity Workshop; Lucy Yang, Co-Chair of the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative We submitted this position statement to the “Privacy & Pandemics Workshop: Responsible Uses of Technology and Health Data During Times of Crisis —…

The COVID-19 pandemic has, in a few months’ time, taken the lives of almost half a million people worldwide and brought economies into lockdown globally. While many are struggling with the effects of social distancing, financial distress, or fear of contracting the virus, here at the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI)…