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Obama to promote a non-gov ID ecosystem
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As previously reported, the White House is working on a "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" or NSTIC, in which it has placed the Commerce Department in charge of an "Identity Ecosystem". The initiative has drawn a mixture of praise and criticism, and judging by our own readers’ comments, there is a whole lot of criticism. More on this here . Share your thoughts on the White House’s strategy . We had a discussion on the subject with Chris Messina , Google’s Open Web advocate. Messina was there when the plan was revealed, and is rather knowledgeable in the subject of online identity (besides working for Google, he’s on the board of the OpenID Foundation , and has worked with Mozilla to produce a concept on implementing identity in the browser called " The Social Agent ") , which is why we felt he would be a good person to share his views on the strategy.
Google's Open Web Advocate Talks White House Web ID Plan | WebProNews
Open identity for the government | OpenID
This is an important step in the Obama administration’s commitment to open, transparent, and participatory government. First, it acknowledges and embraces existing, open technologies, rather than inventing their own (or worse, hiring independent contractors to do the same). Second, this comes at a critical time in the history of OpenID, of which there are now well over 500 million OpenID-capable accounts in the wild, (even if few people realize that they already have one!).Posted at 4:10 am on September 9, 2009 by Don Thibeau Gov 2.0 Conference - 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.
Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Pr
Government | OpenID
When NIH, or NASA researchers and scientists wanted to publish a lot of information in a way that people could easily get to it and add to it, they simply built, posted and tested their ideas. Because of the groundwork laid in social media technologies, like OpenID they did not have to ask permission, or make any changes to the core operations of the Internet. My guess is other agencies will soon copy them — hundreds of thousands of computer users, then hundreds of millions, creating and sharing content and technology. That’s the Social Web or Web 2.0 or Gov 2.0. Call it what you will — it’s on its way, today in federal, state and local agencies and around the world. Put another way, we in the open identity community are trying to design each new protocol to be both useful in its own right and a building block available to others.
