OpenID Society | A Chapter of the OpenID Foundation

In the News...

NIH Uses OpenID to extend access
Federal Computer Week
Monday, May 10, 2010

OIX Forms to Build Trust for Online Identity
Open Identity Exchange
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Government Adopts OpenID
Reuters and Business Wire
Wednesday, September 9, 2009; 8:51am EDT

Current Projects

OpenID Community Project
Staunton OpenID ProjectThis project seeks to enhance current social structure; municipalities, associations, educational institutions and any group that can provide trusted network credentials in order to develop an extensible identity stack within the OpenID framework. In addition, the project will map personal identity elements in such a way as to maximize the value of trusted digital interactions while protecting individual privacy.

WeOpenID Server Project
WeOpenID Server ProjectThe purpose of this project is to provide an Open Source OpenID Server platform for trusted communities using the most up-to-date standards for U.S. Government digital interactions. WeOpenID Server provides account holders both tight (NIST Level 2 of Assurance) and anonymous digital identity capacity with each account. Sponsor participants are now being invited.