Nicholas Foo -<\/strong> As you can imagine, these days everyone wants to open up its borders<\/strong> to boost the economy, but no one really knows how... A Singapore<\/strong>The volume of travellers fell to 98 %. And as in other countries, the recovery depends on reopening the borders, but nobody wants to see a new wave of Covid-19 cases. This means do it safely<\/strong>and therefore to impose tests<\/strong> before departure. But with the explosion in demand, an offer of low-cost false tests<\/strong> has developed. That's why it's not enough to ask for a test before departure, a new test is required on arrival. Solutions have therefore emerged which help to put in place digitally verifiable certificates<\/strong>. In most cases, this is a QR Code<\/strong> which you simply scan, and this poses a number of problems.<\/p>\n N. F. -<\/strong> This applies in particular to the verification process. In some cases, you have to click on a URL on your phone, while others display a green sign or a QR code... There is no standard, and this is a real problem from an operational point of view, for immigration, airlines... Also, there is no possibility of carrying out a \"security check\". independent verification<\/strong>. However, the flow of people is sometimes so great that the person carrying out the verification cannot pay full attention to the check, making sure that all the criteria required for the result of the test and its authenticity have been met. There is also a interoperability problem<\/strong>. To take the payments sector as an example, there's American Express, Mastercard, Visa, etc. And there was a time when this meant different terminals. Today, a single terminal can handle all these different standards. What we do at Affinidi is to reproduce this for safe travel. Different standards may emerge, but we want to be able to recognise these different standards<\/strong>. Today, Affinidi is already integrated with nine standards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n N. F. - <\/strong>\u00a0This solves the problem of independent verification: whatever the standard, it can be verified. This is very important from the point of view of an airline or immigration controls: countries don't want to reopen their borders only to users of one standard... It's as if a shop could only accept customers with a Visa card. That's what we're working on. Today, we're working on the Covid test results, and we've already started work on providing the vaccination status<\/strong> as well.<\/p>\n N. F. -<\/strong> At Affinidi, we believe that an open ecosystem is necessary to enable safe international travel. With this in mind, we are willing to work with all partners, including IATA<\/strong>who have a means of verifying their data and providing the necessary data required by airlines and immigration authorities<\/p>\n Which ones, specifically?<\/h3>\n
Why is this important?<\/h3>\n
Do you use the IATA standard?<\/h3>\n