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Xainport: Your Digital Passport for a Safer World
Inspiration
COVID-19 is a pandemic infectious disease unknown until the outbreak in December 2019 at Wuhan, China. In a super connected world, the disease has spread very quickly.
Subsequently, at least half of the Earth's population are currently observing measures that are restricting the movement of the people. With these limitations, governments are unable to sustain their Sustainable Development Goals and prior economic plans.
What it does
Xainport is a digital passport that brings the governments the opportunity to certificate the immunity of their citizens without losing their sovereignty. It brings transparency between entities and privacy to the citizens. Besides, it's inclusive, allowing territories with limited technology adopt and connect to the system.
The "immunity passports" or certificates are a concept managed already by some governments, and also by people like Bill Gates
How we built it
Xainport is a digital certification and passport system that enables individual citizens to grant agencies in the EU the certification of health status according to the standards of their national health service. This is done with a diagnosis provided by their general practice doctor. The model allows that national health authorities can participate in international reporting to certify healthy travelers moving between jurisdictions. The health authority can securely uphold agreed controls and standards in the transfer of certificates. Governments maintain the integrity in the management of health status certifications, while citizens control who has access to their personal data and the purpose. 3rd parties and agencies can act internationally on the behalf of groups or individuals with the recognition of proper certifications.
Xainport uses blockchain technology to transfer encrypted indexes to certifications.
Challenges we ran into
Designing a system mixing private data with the need of transparency it's not an easy task. With our proposal, citizens will be able to manage their privacy, but, at the same time, they will be able to show in a trustworthy way, their data to those authorised parties that require safety checks.
Other of the challenges we face was the inclusion. European countries are developed enough to adopt technological solutions that can help them in their goals. However, this is a global crisis, and if territories with limited resources are not able to control the outbreak due technology access, all the humanity will be affected.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We have a first version of the product. We have a business plan, some good feedback, and a very well thought concept that mixes transparency, inclusion and privacy. It's also a concept that it's creating some expectation, and we're ready to work hard to exceed it.
What we learned
We have learned that we need support. Support from institutions that believe, like us, that this is the right way to go, that the future of the passports will be digital, and that this is the right way to create a safer world without loosing our rights.
We learned that nobody can be left behind, and we need to think in global solutions that can be implemented in any territory, independently of their technological development level.
What's next for Xainport
We want to be the licensed technology of the passports of the future: having the ability to mix private and public data depending on the needs, giving the power of that data to the citizens, and bringing a new layer of security to governments and institutions.
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