COVID-19 Antibody Test / Vaccination Certification: There’s an app for that
As the Coronavirus Pandemic unfolds the OU’s blockchain team are working on a response centred on how our technology could support ‘Immunity Passports’ as have been mentioned by the UK Government in their daily briefings. This paper outlines our concept and prototype mobile phone app that facilitates the instant verification of tamper-proof test results whilst preserving privacy.
Publication
M. Eisenstadt, M. Ramachandran, N. Chowdhury, A. Third and J. Domingue, “COVID-19 Antibody Test / Vaccination Certification: There’s an app for that,” in IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, doi: DOI: 10.1109/OJEMB.2020.2999214
Partners
We are now working with four companies to see how we will scale up our solution for UK wide deployment:

BT
British Tele-communications PLC – A trusted brand with the ability to scale and deploy at national level

Condatis
A trusted digital identity partner of some of the largest enterprises and government departments in the world

Inrupt
Founded by John Bruce and Sir Tim Berners-Lee to rebalance power on the Web

Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Our mission is to put pharmacy at the forefront of healthcare
Media
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COVID-19 Antibody Test/Vaccination Certification: There’s an app for that
- Interview with Prof. John Domingue on BBC Three Counties Radio (Jump to: 3h 38m 52s)
- UK lockdown could be ended with help of pioneering mobile passport app says developer (Express)
- Open University develops digital certificate for Covid-19 immunity (UKAuthority)
- UK’s Open University unveils COVID-19 immunity certification blockchain app (LedgerInsight)
- New App for COVID-19 Combines Blockchain With Web Inventor’s Privacy Tech (CoinTelegraph)
- OU researchers develop mobile app for certifying Covid-19 immunity tests (telecompaper)
- UK begins testing world’s first blockchain COVID-19 app (Cryptonary)
- Pods and DLT technology to provide Covid-19 immunity certification while preserving privacy (PrivSec Report)
- Open University Develops COVID-19 Proof-Of-Immunity App With Blockchain (Crypto News Point)
- Novo aplicativo para Covid-19 combina blockchain e ferramenta de privacidade criada pelo inventor da internet (Cripto Facil)

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