Verifiable Credentials for First Responders

Hi all,

For more than a year, IDATAFY (SmartResume), Level Data, and Digital
Bazaar have been working with the first responder community, through
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, on Verifiable Credentials
for First Responders.

During large scale incidents that involve first responders, such as
wildfires, earthquakes, and hurricanes, it is critical for incident
commanders (the people coordinating the hundreds to thousands of
responders) to understand the collection of people that are in the
incident area, as well as their skills and training, in order to
deploy the right people, to the right places, at the right time.

We have created a vocabulary specification that is useful for
describing First Responders using Verifiable Credentials in a way that
is compatible with NIEMOpen, a community-driven, common vocabulary
that enables efficient information exchange across diverse public and
private organizations. Verifiable credentials being issued using this
technology can be utilized by incident commanders to quickly and
accurately determine the capabilities of their responders as well as
vet, in real time, the veracity of their qualifications.

You can see the draft vocabulary here, which we'll be developing
further, piloting, and then planning on submitting to this community
for adoption:

https://w3id.org/first-responder/

-- manu

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Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
https://www.digitalbazaar.com/

Received on Friday, 4 October 2024 14:27:06 UTC