Hygiea: A secure, smart, privacy-preserving and interoperable Blockchain solution for the Covid-19 pandemic
This addresses the problem of managing Covid-19 certificates securely and transparently for governments, citizens, and decision-makers, though it is incremental as it applies existing blockchain and smart contract technologies to a new domain.
The authors tackled the need for secure and interoperable Covid-19 certificate management by proposing Hygiea, a blockchain-based solution that enables governments to issue and verify certificates for safer workplaces and provides tools for experts to analyze pandemic data using statistical models.
In this article we present hygiea, an end-to-end blockchain-based solution for the Covid-19 pandemic. hygiea has two main objectives. The first is to allow governments to issue Covid-19 related certificates to citizens that can be verified by designated verifiers to ensure safer workplaces. The second is to provide the necessary tools to experts and decision makers to better understand the impact of the pandemic through statistical models built on top of the data collected by the platform. This work covers all steps of the certificate issuance, verification and revocation cycles with well-defined roles for all stakeholders. We also propose a governance model that is implemented via smart contracts ensuring security, transparency and auditability. Finally, we propose techniques for deriving statistical models that can be used by decision makers.