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Programme

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ITU/WHO Workshop on "Digital Vaccination Certificate"

Wednesday, 11 August 2021
​13:00 - 13:15
Opening Remarks

Master of Ceremony: Xiaoya YangITU-T Study Group 17 Counselor
​13:15 - 14:45
SESSION 1: Use cases and technical framework

This session will introduce various use cases for digital certificate services for COVID-19, to identify technical elements and to discuss how services and applications for digital certificates can be implemented.

Session ChairAbbie Barbir, Co-rapporteur ITU-T Study Group 17 Q10 | Senior Security Advisor​, CVS Health, United States
​14:45 - 14:50
Break
​14:50 - 16:20SESSION 2: Policy and governance aspects – digital certificate federation and interoperability standardization impacts

This session will address policy and governance aspects related to making a digital certificate service unified (federated) ensuring interoperability between various service domains. It includes how mutual recognition can be achieved that supports realistic technical scalability and integrity. It also provides various planned or current activities of SDOs.

Session Chair: Nicole van der Meulen, ​​Senior Strategic Analyst and Head of the Policy & Development team, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3)
16:20 - 16:25​Break
16:25 - 17:45
SESSION 3: Panel discussion – future directions for standardization activities​

This session will identify future directions that ITU-T SG17/SG16/SG20/WHO needs to study for standardization activities on digital certificates for COVID-19, to suggest potential ways forward to develop technical Recommendations by ITU-T to fill those gaps, to include relationship of ITU-T to WHO activities and suggested timeline for work, and to identify stakeholders with whom SG17/SG16/SG20 will collaborate in the future.

Session ChairMasahito Kawamori, ITU-T Study Group 16 Q28 Rapporteur | Project Professor, Keio University​, Japan
17:45 - 18:00
​​Closing Remarks

This session will review session summaries and wrap-up the workshop.

Session Chair: Noah Luo, ITU-T Study Group 16 Chairman | Director, Dept. of Industry and Standards (West Europe), Huawei, China
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