Accenture will be responsible for building out Australia’s digital vaccine passport.
A new Australian digital vaccine passport is officially in the works, with the Australian government announcing it has selected Accenture to build the technology. The digital vaccine passport, called the Digital Passenger Declaration (DPD), will replace physical incoming passenger cards and the COVID-19 Australian Travel Declaration web forms, the government said. Functionally, it will link with the QR code vaccination certificate that is set to be introduced later this month and capture essential information up to 72 hours prior to a person boarding a plane. Australians currently use either a digital or paper certificate to indicate their COVID-19 vaccination status, which can be retrieved through the Express Plus Medicare mobile app or a myGov account. These certificates are filled with various issues, however, with users easily able to forge their records. „The DPD will support the safe re-opening of Australia’s international borders, by providing digitally-verified COVID-19 vaccination details,“ Minister of Home Affairs Karen Andrews said.
