adjida, 2009 Sep 9, Wave Systems Corp
2009 Sep 9, Wave Systems Corp. announced today its support of the first open identity pilot program aimed at enabling members of the public and businesses to register and participate in government websites without creating new user names and passwords. Wave joins Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi and Privo in supporting this new pilot program as digital identity providers offering solutions based on OpenID and Information Card technologies. The Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and related agencies will participate in
the pilot program. Wave and the other participating companies are being certified under the open trust frameworks developed by the OpenID Foundation and the Information Card Foundation and reviewed by the federal government. A joint announcement by both foundations was issued earlier today to coincide with the first day of the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C.
(Ihub #181,869, 9/9/09)
