Welcome to the Regi-TRUST Governance Consultation!
Digital TRUST Infrastructure for Discovery and Validation (Regi-TRUST) is an infrastructure project sponsored and hosted at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The project is intended to develop and provide a suite of tools to enable discovery and validation of trusted services by leveraging existing Internet infrastructures of the Domain Name System (DNS) and its security extensions.
Implementers can leverage the tools to create purpose-sized meta networks or ecosystems of trusted digital services or service networks operated by all types of entities - allowing users to easily discover services in need and access relevant service information through trusted endpoints and enabling informed decisions about whether to trust and use a service. Imagine a global network of all COVID/immunization certificate services where you can be sure that participating service providers are who they claim they are and you are accessing or directed to their vetted information (instead of phishing information) before sharing your own data or using their services.
Most importantly, Regi-TRUST can enable scalable 'network of networks' model that today’s fully centralized model is not able to. Thanks to the decentralized, cloud-agnostic architecture it adopts, any participating service of an implemented network or ecosystem will be able to maintain the sovereignty and control of their own systems and data. Such an approach provides the necessary trust infrastructure that can help to thwart the ubiquitous phishing attempts mimicking online service organizations, such as government institutions, health providers and banks.
For more project information, please see here. If you have any questions or issues joining the group, please reach out to Lucy Yang at yang.qixue@undp.org.
Governance Consultation
The success of any network of networks using Regi-TRUST's technical infrastructure relies on good operations and governance. As we release the technical specification of Regi-TRUST, we are launching a four-week public consultation to identify the key governance attributes, drivers, and considerations for Regi-TRUST – from the scope of governance, governance structures and related considerations, to the role of governance in scaling the network. We aim to develop policy and governance guidelines for the COVID-19/public health emergency use case that could be extended to other uses of Regi-TRUST.
To achieve that, we will conduct the discussion to:
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Document, share, and consolidate the experiences, lessons, and good practices of key stakeholders in governing and operating their own COVID-19 certification ecosystems;
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Identify common grounds among existing ecosystems, resolve key differences and establish a foundation for the governance of a global trust network of networks/ ecosystems for COVID-19 certificates
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Co-create a governance framework that clearly defines the scope, objectives, principles, structure and process of governance and the incentives for stakeholders to participate in the global trust network.
The consultation is OPEN TO ALL. We are keen to leverage the experience of the global health community who have engaged with relevant policy, institutional, programmatic, and other governance structures and elements.
The consultations include four consecutive weeks (Week 1-4) of asynchronous discussions and weekly live zoom discussions for 1.5 hours every Thursday from 8-9:30 am EST / 9-10:30 pm SGT. All members ("Join" using the red button on the left of the page) of the consultation will receive calendar invites to the weekly live sessions. We will leave all asynchronous discussion forums open throughout the consultation and welcome comments anytime. However, our moderators will only be able to provide dedicated moderation following the specified timeline of each discussion forum.
We look forward to engaging with and learning from you!
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