Government of Japan started accepting OpenID

Posted at 5:09 am on March 9, 2010 by Nat Sakimura

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (METI) launched a site called “IdeaBox“, which solicits ideas for IT Policy widely.

At the site, people can propose, discuss, and vote on policies. METI positions it as a network-based committee which is open to public. A similar site was operated last year from October to November and attracted over 1700 policy idea.

This version of IdeaBox, launched Feb 23, accepts OpenID so that one can login with the account from mixi, Yahoo! Japan, Livedoor and Google. It has various other social components so that one can also tweet about it directly from the site, bookmark it on delicous and hatena bookmark, etc. This initiative will run through March 15.

Site Address: http://open-meti.go.jp/

Tags: japan

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2 Responses to “Government of Japan started accepting OpenID”

Imam Mardiansyah Says:
August 10th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
It would be great that Japan started to accept OpenID since Japan is one of world influencing countries. I love Japanese food and music so much that using OpenID in Japanese website can be very useful.
Dev Says:
November 11th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Are there many governments that do use OpenID, like Japan ? Is this a rare case ?