* [IdRamp Joins Linux Foundation Public Health Cardea Project Steering Committee](https://idramp.com/idramp-joins-linux-foundation-public-health-cardea-project-steering-committee/)
> The Cardea and GCCN projects are both excellent examples of breakthrough innovations that can take shape when companies and projects come together to solve real-world problems, using open source tools available to everyone
* [GlobaliD joins the Linux Foundation’s Cardea Project](https://medium.com/global-id/globalid-joins-the-linux-foundations-cardea-project-22f298032240)
* [Public-private partnerships in health: The journey ahead for open source](https://www.lfph.io/2022/07/29/public-private-partnerships-in-health-the-journey-ahead-for-open-source/)Linux Foundation Public Health 2022-07-29
Presented by Patientory includes Jim St. Claire of LFPH
Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is a movement that claims digital identity should be just as legitimate and nuanced as a person’s human identity, while being accessible to all, privacy-preserving, and not reliant on a single government or corporation.
* [The Flavors of Verifiable Credentials](https://www.lfph.io/2021/02/11/cci-verifiable-credentials-flavors-and-interoperability-paper/) Linux Foundation Public Health Blog [pdf]((https://www.lfph.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Verifiable-Credentials-Flavors-Explained.pdf)) 2021-02-11
> The differences between the different flavors of VCs for technically inclined readers. It elaborated on the differences between JSON and JSON-LD and articulated differences between the two different implementations of ZKP style credentials. The ‘Journey of a VC’ section articulated all steps where VCs are active and highlighted the differences in how different VC flavors ’behave’.
* [The Cardea Interop-a-thon Returns—and Here’s Why You Should Participate!](https://indicio.tech/the-cardea-interop-a-thon-returns-and-heres-why-you-should-participate/)Indicio
The [Cardea Community](https://cardea.app/)at Linux Foundation Public Health is pleased to announce the third Interop-a-thon on June 16, between 8:00am and 12:00pm MST (UTC-7:00). Anyone building a Hyperledger Aries compatible product or system can sign up [here](https://forms.gle/CQLRFRr4NexLoCf36).
There are five agents main agents in the cardia ecosystem. The health enterprise agent, which is a cloud agent that allows for a health organization a hospital lab clinic pharmacy. Whoever is going to be issuing the credentials to participate in hie would be a a government health organization all of those would be represented by a health enterprise agent issuing credentials there's a government agent that's represented in the ecosystem right now that verifies credentials presented to it and then issues trusted travelers a mobile verifier agent
* [IdRamp Joins Linux Foundation Public Health Cardea Project Steering Committee](https://idramp.com/idramp-joins-linux-foundation-public-health-cardea-project-steering-committee/)
The Cardea and GCCN projects are both excellent examples of breakthrough innovations that can take shape when companies and projects come together to solve real-world problems, using open source tools available to everyone
* [Verifiable Credential Solution to Health Data Sharing](https://indicio.tech/the-verifiable-credential-solution-to-health-data-sharing/)Indicio
In proving that tamper-proof health data could be issued to travelers by their health providers and be verified by airlines and other countries without having to check back in with the health provider, Cardea has laid the foundation for something much bigger than Covid testing. Verifiable credential technology provides a way for all kinds of health data to be shared in a privacy-preserving and security-enhanced way.
