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The Commons Project

The Commons Project, officially The Commons Project Foundation, is a global non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.

History

The Commons Project was established in 2019 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. Their first project was CommonHealth.1)

COVID-19

Following the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Commons Project developed the CommonPass, a vaccine passport.

JP Pollack contributed to the development of the SMART Health Card system on behalf of The Commons Project.2) The Commons Project also serves as a member of the steering committee for the Vaccine Credential Initiative (VCI).3)

Further, TCP runs the CommonTrust Network, collaborating with the VCI, the World Economic Forum and “a broad, global coalition of public and private partners” to integrate the SMART Health Card system worldwide.4) 5)

Organization

Personnel

General Assembly6)
Name Position Notes
Reuben Abraham - IFDC Institute
Muna Abu-Sulayman - Arabic Digital Reform Institute
Edem Adzogenu - Afrochampions
Tahasin Alam Co-founder The Commons Project
Mina Al-Orabi - The National
Miriam Altman - National Planning Commission of South Africa
Kamal Amakrane - United Nations
Matt Anestis - BlackRock
Akudo Anyanwu - Johns Hopkins University
Bunty Bohra - Goldman Sachs
David Brailer - Health Evolution
Tim Brown - IDEO, Kyu Collective
Ángel Cabrera -
James Chau - The China Current
Aneesh Chopra - CareJourney, Virginia Secretary of Technology
Anir Chowdhury - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Government of Bangladesh
Andrew Cohen - JPMorgan Chase
Arturo Condo - EARTH University
Thomas Crampton - Edelman
John Dutton - World Economic Forum
Esther Dyson - Wellville, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Deborah Estrin - Cornell Tech, MacArthur Fellowship
Will Fitzpatrick - Will Fitzpatrick PC
Jitesh Gadhia - Blackstone
Jeremy Garrett-Cox - -
Rebekah Gee - LSU Health Care Services Division
Julie Gerberding - Merck, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Glenn Gore - Affinidi
Bruce Greenstein - LHC Group, United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Anuj Hasija - Novartis
Pamela Johnson - Voxiva
Tom Kahil - Schmidt Futures
Karim Kawar - Kawar Group
Gabriela Kennedy - Mayer Brown
Amy Knapp - Bright Health
James Kondo - International House of Japan (IHJ)
Daniel Kraft - Exponential Medicine, Singularity University
Jaewoong Lee -
Jason Li - Vantage Asia Holdings

Partnerships

The Commons Project is a partner organization of the World Economic Forum (WEF).7)

It is also partnered with:8)

1)
About Us. The Commons Project. Retrieved August 13, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210813030302/https://thecommonsproject.org/about
2)
SMART Health Cards: Vaccination & Testing Implementation Guide. HL7 FHIR. Retrieved September 21, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210921022941/https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/fhir-shc-vaccination-ig/
4)
Home. CommonTrust Network. Retrieved January 20, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230120101139/https://www.commontrustnetwork.org/
5)
Lempert, R. (2021, June 9). Vaccine Credential Initiative: Passports; Digital Health Passes; Ontario; Ford. Canuck Law. http://archive.today/2021.06.09-222210/https://canucklaw.ca/vaccine-credential-initiative-passports-digital-health-passes-ontario-ford/
6)
General Assembly. The Commons Project. Retrieved August 13, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210813044033/https://thecommonsproject.org/assembly
7)
The Commons Project. World Economic Forum. Retrieved March 22, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.03.22-151501/https://www.weforum.org/organizations/commons-project
8)
Home. The Commons Project. Retrieved March 15, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220315160055/https://www.thecommonsproject.org/
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