Using FIWARE and Blockchain in Post Pandemic Vaccination Scenario

Abstract

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus, directly affected the displacement of people around the world. Some countries have restricted travel from certain countries where the pandemic has not been controlled. It is expected that with the emergence of different types of vaccines to contain the spread of this virus, international travel will resume both for business, tourism, and vacation. However, how to guarantee and verify that someone was vaccinated? Therefore, it is necessary to integrate most vaccination systems worldwide to offer digital proof of vaccination. One way to do this is to use FIWARE, a curated framework from an open-source platform for smart solutions, which utilizes NGSI Standards, enabling the integration of components and providing the basis for the interoperability and portability of smart solutions. However, data exchanged between systems need to be reliable and secure. One way is to overcome these challenges is using Blockchain with NGSI as an immutable decentralized transaction ledger to integrate systems. This paper proposes a new Generic Enabler (GE) named Canis Major to be integrated into the FIWARE ecosystem solutions to provide secure interoperability between systems used to integrate vaccination systems worldwide in a post-pandemic vaccination scenario. With this solution, any integrated vaccination system can reliably verify when and what type of vaccine a person has been vaccinated to contribute to the end of the pandemic.