Objectives
- To develop and make available a set of documents which include (but are not limited to) a governance framework for (a "GF") for verifiable digital credentials related to COVID-19 emergency response,
- To with the establishment of an appropriate governance authority around topics related to COVID-19 emergency response(a "GA") for the GF,
- To help enable the development of tools, methods and systems which adopt the governance framework and apply the principles enshrined for public goodpromote adoption of the GF by many organizations globally.
Background/Context
The CCI Governance Framework Task Force evolved as part of from the Rules Workstream within the Covid COVID Credentials Initiative. The focus of the Rules Workstream was, by early June 2020, to produce a first version of a Governance Framework which is aligned with the purpose of the wider CCI effort as well as aligned to the needs of the emerging ecosystem of developers, applications and systems which bring technology-centric interventions to addressing the needs originating from the pandemic.
The first set of documents produced by the Rules Workstream include the following <insert hyperlinks to the listed documents?>
- CCI GF V1 - Introduction v1.0
- CCI GF V1 - Master Document v1.0
- CCI GF <insert the actual name of the issuers document>V1 - Credential Governance and Issuer Authority Policy
As part of its commitment to ensure that the output is widely circulated and understood the workstream also sought out volunteer-driven contributions to translations of the above document. As on date (24-Jun-2020), the documents have received translations for <insert the list of languages being published at the CCI newsletter>over five languages, all of which are available at the CCI GF TF pages. All GF documents are free for download and use by any individuals or organizations globally.
Organizers
- Chris Raczkowski, DignifID
- Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, Dhiway
- Drummond Reed, Evernym
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Deliverables
The proposed CCI GF Task Force intends to create a set of easily adapted reference materialmaterials, best practices and templates, thus enabling organizations of diverse nature around the world to respond appropriately with technology while addressing the needs of a community impacted by COVID-19. The availability of this body of knowledge is expected to reduce the tension between public and private bodies around the topic of definition of a structure of authority, implementation of business, legal and technical rules and the assessment of technology infrastructure contributed in context of principles adopted by the public-private partnership.
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As a Task Force (TF) of the Ecosystem Foundry WG (EFWG), the IoE CCI GF TF inherits the IPR terms from the EFWG JDF Charter. These include:
- Copyright mode: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. For the IoE CCI GF TF, this is probably the only relevant licensing provision.
- Patent mode: W3C Mode (based on the W3C Patent Policy). The IoE CCI GF TF is not expected to produce any deliverables subject to patent rights.
- Source code: Apache 2.0, available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html. The IoE CCI GF TF is not expected to produce source code.
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Weekly meetings on Monday at: 910:00pm Hong Kong/Beijing; 34:00pm Paris/Berlin/Cape Town; 910:00am New York; 7:00am San Francisco.