Re: Verifiable Credentials for First Responders

Manu,
Have you been tracking the DIEM discussions at IETF?
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/diem/about/
Seems like some really good potential for collaboration

Mike Prorock
Founder
https://mesur.io/


On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 8:29 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

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