HOME NEWS RESEARCH PROJECTS TECHNOLOGIES PEOPLE PUBLICATIONS SEMINARS CAREERS FULL SEMINAR DETAILS Professor Marc Eisenstadt COVID-19 Antibody Test/Vaccination Certification: There's an app for that This event took place on Tuesday 19 May 2020 at 13:30 As the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2019/2020 unfolds, a controversial 'Immunity Passport' has been mooted as a way to enable individuals to return back to work or be admitted to current off-limits locations. Our approach is less dramatic, concentrating on the soundness of certification and verification: While the quality of antibody testing and the likelihood of even attaining COVID-19 immunity continue to be researched, we address the issues involved in providing certification for antibody testing and likely future vaccination, in a tamper-proof, privacy-preserving, and ethically appropriate manner. To do this, we developed a prototype mobile phone app and requisite decentralised server architecture. Personally identifiable information is only stored at the user's discretion, and the app allows the end-user selectively to present only the specific test result with no other personal information revealed. Behind the scenes it relies upon (a) the 2019 World Wide Web Consortium standard called 'Verifiable Credentials', (b) Tim Berners-Lee's decentralized personal data platform 'Solid', and (c) a consortium Ethereum-based blockchain. Our approach enables both verifiability and privacy in a manner derived from public/private key pairs and digital signatures, generalized to avoid restrictive ownership of sensitive digital keys and/or data. The app and decentralised server architecture offer a prototype proof of concept that is readily scalable, applicable generically, and in effect 'waiting in the wings' for the biological issues, plus key ethical issues discussed in the presentation, to be resolved. https://blockchain.open.ac.uk/#covid-19 Watch the webcast replay >> SEARCH SEMINARS VIEW BY Future Events Past Events Prof. Viola Schiaffonati Politecnico di Milano Computers, robots, and experiments Dec 2nd | 11am - noon (GMT) SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH COP26 GREEN ZONE Ancient Knowledge and Modern Thinking: Climate Perspectives in Folk Art Sunday 7th November 1-2:30pm TWEETS @oacore28m Did #research stop with #COVID? Attend and see what we can discover using the new CORE #API on January 13th 2022 @… https://t.co/xVhThmWXxt @enridaga02 Dec Announce! We have a new release of SPARQL Anything -- v0.5.0 https://t.co/iNeR2HsETS Credits @LguSpree… https://t.co/yy05YFaMpR @HERoS_EU02 Dec Using data collected by the @fc_observatory, we analysed hashtags used in the biographies of 265 948 users who shar… https://t.co/vD4sLHVFj9 @HERoS_EU29 Nov An interactive 🗺️ application by @kmiou and the Space Research Center - Polish Academy of Sciences presents the dat… https://t.co/PUYrzhjAPz @enridaga26 Nov @richdijkstra @PolifoniaH2020 @SpiceH2020 @kmiou @isdsou @stlab_cnr @LguSpree @thejustman Thank you! @richdijkstra26 Nov @enridaga @PolifoniaH2020 @SpiceH2020 @kmiou @isdsou @stlab_cnr @LguSpree @thejustman Great initiative with a lot of potential. @thejustman25 Nov @enridaga @PolifoniaH2020 @SpiceH2020 @kmiou @isdsou @stlab_cnr @LguSpree I'm preparing for my next blog post: usin… https://t.co/EahMBaK01N @enridaga25 Nov First 100 issues closed. SPARQL Anything is growing fast ;) https://t.co/HZVdOFOmT5 We're preparing the next rele… https://t.co/5bOMTs91Dg View All Twitter Activity MILTON KEYNES COVID-19 DATA AWARDS KNOWLEDGE MAKERS KMi Home Job Vacancies Studentships Visitors KMi Review Find Us Diversity LGBTQ+ History International Women's Day 2021 Accessibility Privacy and Cookies CONTACT US Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1908 653800 Fax: +44 (0)1908 653169 Email: KMi Support COMMENT If you have any comments, suggestions or general feedback regarding our website, please email us at the address below. Email: KMi Development Team We have placed cookies on your computer to help make this website better. We use a Google Analytics script which sets cookies. More details can be found in our .