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• David Luchuk provided a brief overview of the two webinar events that took place on December 15 - separate sessions to accommodate US/EU and APAC time zones.
• The US/EU session peaked at approx. 120 attendees while the APAC session reaches approx. 20 participants.
• The sessions were well-received and featured active participation from attendees.
• Recordings from both sessions have been posted to the ToIP website and wiki.
• The Communications Committee intends to establish an editorial calendar through which ToIP webinars would be regularly scheduled.
• Drummond Reed presented the opening slides from the webinar, discussing how the ToIP model was presented to the non-technical audience. 
• Tim Bouma observed that the core challenge with a government audience is to succeed in shifting policy leaders from their focus on “SSI” toward a greater understanding of digital trust.
• Kaliya Young introduced advocacy work underway in California aiming to influence the State policy committee and draft legislation, which will be supportive of VCs, in 2021.
• Bo Harald introduces introduced work underway through Findy - establishing a network for verified data where state agencies (Finland) act as members.

Principles of SSI

• Chris Ingrao introduced The Exchange which is a credential ecosystem that was conceived to supports test and vaccination records related to COVID-19.
• It has since been expanded to support multiple use cases and a community of patients, providers, advocates and payers to share credentials in healthcare.
• This example of a Layer 4 ecosystem (based on the ToIP model) aims to help resolve billions of dollars in inefficiency and administrative waste in health services.

CCI Governance Framework

• D Reed explained that the Principles were stewarded by Sovrin but are not owned by any single organization. The are meant to reflect the consensus of the entire SSI community.
• Based on a decision by the Steering Committee (Dec 9), a taskforce will be created under the Governance Stack WG to deliver the Principles of SSI as a ToIP Design Principles deliverable.
• Sovrin will soon announce and publicly release the Principles. These need to be supported and broadly endorses by the community as a whole in order to have the desired impact.

Market Developments - Digital Health Passports

• D Luchuk briefly introduced Guest presenter Chris Raczkowski (Sovrin Foundation) introduced recent progress on a Governance Framework developed by the COVID Credentials Initiative (CCI) taskforce.
• The CCI Governance Framework offers an example of the value of ToIP.
• It has been an open source and community effort to define elements in Layer 3 of the ToIP stack focusing on testing and vaccination results as well as professional accreditation for healthcare professionals in the COVID-19 context.
• The CCI Governance Framework takes a principles-based approach to avoid conflict with different regulations across jurisdictions. It has reached a stage of development where it can be proposed for adoption and use.

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