[ESIP-AQ] Fwd: [Infusion] OpenID and Open Government

[Rudolf Husar]

"Ten industry leaders — Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign,
Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems — announced today they will support the
first pilot programs designed for the American public to engage in open
government — government that is transparent, participatory, and
collaborative".
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*Another open government initiative. Will the industry support make it go
further than the past efforts?


*Rudy
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Olding <solding at everware-cbdi.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Subject: [Infusion] OpenID and Open Government
To: infusion at lists.sciencedatasystems.org


 Some activity today on OpenID that may be relevant to our web services
security debate...

US Government To Embrace OpenID (TechCrunch) <http://bit.ly/4hKTTG>

Later this morning at the Gov 2.0 Summit, Federal Government CIO Vivek
Kundra will talk about data.gov and other governmental transparency
initiatives, and will also be making an announcement regarding the launch of
a open identity initiative featuring the use of both OpenID and InfoCards in
a special pilot program.


Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo, Wave
Systems Pilot Open Identity for Open
Government<http://openid.net/2009/09/09/yahoo-paypal-google-equifax-aol-verisign-acxiom-citi-privo-wave-systems-pilot-open-identity-for-open-government-2/>
OpenID and Open Government <http://openid.net/government/>

Washington, D.C. — September 9, 2009 — Ten industry leaders — Yahoo!,
PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems
— announced today they will support the first pilot programs designed for
the American public to engage in open government — government that is
transparent, participatory, and collaborative. This open identity initiative
is a key step in President Obama’s memorandum to make it easy for
individuals to register and participate in government websites — without
having to create new usernames and passwords. Additionally, members of the
public will be able to fully control how much or how little personal
information they share with the government at all times.

These companies will act as digital identity providers using OpenID and
Information Card technologies. The pilot programs are being conducted by the
Center for Information Technology (CIT), National Institutes of Health
(NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and related
agencies. The participating companies are being certified under
non-discriminatory open trust frameworks developed under collaboration
between the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) and the Information Card Foundation
(ICF) and reviewed by the federal government.
 <http://openid.net/government/>




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Rudolf B. Husar, Professor and Director
Center for Air Pollution Impact and Trend Analysis (CAPITA),
Washington University,
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