Credenciales Digitales de Vacunación contra el Covid-19: la nueva iniciativa de Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation se unió a Oracle y las compañías de salud Cigna Corp y Mayo Medical School de Minnesota, para impulsar el registro digital de las personas vacunadas, como parte de un sistema…
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Covid-19 Digital Vaccination Credentials: the new initiative from Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation joined Oracle and Minnesota health companies Cigna Corp and Mayo Medical School to promote the digital registration of vaccinated persons as part of a global verification system, a digital passport for worldwide accreditation of COVID-19 vaccination.
The project of this new global coalition is called the "Vaccine Credentials Initiative" and aims to make people have encrypted digital copies of their vaccination records stored in a "digital wallet.
The vaccination credential will initially be stored on people's smartphones, and those who do not have them will receive a printed card with the QR codes on it.
This will be done using the open platform SMART Health Cards and the W3C and HL7 FHIR standards, so that organizations administering vaccines worldwide can easily make vaccination data accessible. It will then be available to those who need it.
In the United States, where Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are already being administered, people are receiving an immunization card or hard copy, but according to Microsoft the current system does not allow for easy control and verification.
Criticism of this type of credential has not been long in coming. Both states and private entities will be able to use them as "health passports" granting rights to some citizens and taking them away from others, be it for transit, travel, work, paperwork, etc.
Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle are some of the main companies in the coalition, which also includes CARIN Alliance, Cerner, Change Healthcare, The Commons Project Foundation, Epic, Evernorth, the Mayo Clinic, MITRE, Oracle and Safe Health, among others.
This new initiative is in turn closely related to the ID2020 project, which aims at global digitalization with biometric data and blockchain technology of all people and is another of the controversial ventures of computer mogul Bill Gates, in this case associated with the historic Rockefeller financial dynasty.
ID2020 ("Digital Identity 2020") was founded between 2017 and 2018 by The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Gavi "The Vaccine Alliance", the latter entity bringing together both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the world's leading laboratories.
Together with these founding partners, the following corporations joined the alliance: Hyperledger, dedicated to blockchain technology; IRespond and Simprints, organizations dedicated to the use of biometric data for digital identity; the ICC, International Computing Center of the United Nations; among others.