Covid-19 Vaccine Verification Infrastructure For Local Communities
Channel: EFF-Austin
Date: 18/06/2021

Our speaker this month is Daniel Roesler. Daniel is a project lead at OpenAustin, a civic-tech meetup and brigade of Code for America. He does a bunch of other stuff, too, mostly focusing on privacy, voting, and climate change. His personal website is: https://daylightpirates.org/

As more and more people get vaccinated against Covid-19, event organizers and businesses are increasingly trying to figure out how to re-open safely, and many want to have a way to verify that someone has received a Covid-19 vaccine. https://vax.codes is a free, open source project by OpenAustin that allows local communities to set up their own vaccine verification process using QR codes without need for larger government systems to be put in place to start having safe, secure, and private vaccine verified gatherings. This talk will go through how our system works, talk about the security and privacy features of the project, and brainstorm how to get more adoption and feedback from community leaders, event organizers, and local businesses.

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