After more than a year of pandemic restrictions that resulted in a greater than 70% decline in travel and tourism activity, health status exchange to enable economies and borders to reopen has generated a heated debate at the interface of public health, personal freedom, and economic imperatives.

To provide a collaborative roadmap to address some of the critical interoperability challenges, the Human Colossus Foundation aims to present some technological realities to a broader audience for societal debate courtesy of two seminal press releases.

On May 5th, 2020, The Linux Foundation , the nonprofit organisation enabling mass innovation through open source, announced that it will host the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation, an independent project to enable trustworthy exchange and authentication of data between any two parties on the Internet.