Second openForum of the Joint Initiative Council: Recordings published

15 June 2021

The second openForum of the Joint Initiative Council was held on Wednesday 9 June 2021. Various speakers from the participating standards developing organisations focused on the infrastructure for the reliable capture and sharing of immunity data.
In the morning session Konstantin Hyppönen from the European Commission explained the implementation choices made for the European Digital Green Certificate for COVID-19 vaccination.
In the afternoon session Nileema Karipineni from MITRE discussed the Vaccination Credential Initiative, one of the initiatives in the US that caters to the need to have easy access to reliable vaccination data.
You can use the following links to access the recordings of the morning session or the aftenoon session.

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