OPIN joins OIDF Board via Peers Consulting + Technology
The OpenID Foundation is delighted to announce that Open Insurance Brazil (OPIN) will be joining the OpenID Foundation Board of Directors as a Sustaining Member, via their strategic partnership with Peers Consulting + Technology. Francisco Leme, Chief Technology and Operations Officer for OPIN and representative for Peers Consulting, will represent them on the Board. Open […]
Australian Digital Trust Community Group (ADT CG)
by Victoria Richardson, ID Partners & Community Group Co-Chair We are not yet halfway through the first quarter of 2025 and it’s already clear that digital identity and trusted ecosystems more broadly are front of mind for many countries. Digital driver licenses in particular have made the headlines with insights from recent hackathons and new […]
Announcing the IPSIE Working Group
The OpenID Foundation is delighted to announce the formation of the Interoperability Profiling for Secure Identity in the Enterprise (IPSIE) Working Group. This WG aims to tackle key challenges that underlie identity security in today’s enterprise environments. The Core Challenge Identity and Access Management (IAM) within the enterprise is a multifaceted endeavor, as indicated by […]
OpenID for Verifiable Credentials Wins EIC Award!
The OpenID Foundation is proud to announce that, for the work building the “OpenID for Verifiable Credentials” family of specifications, members of the Digital Credentials Protocol (DCP) Work Group won the “Future Technologies and Standards” award at the European Identity and Cloud Conference. For the last several years, this group has been working tirelessly to […]
Digital Identity at the G20
On June 18, 2024 the OpenID Foundation’s Executive Director, Gail Hodges, spoke about Digital Identity at the G20 during the Digital Government and Inclusion Workshop. The following are her prepared remarks. Bom dia and hello. I’d first like to applaud the Brazilian Government for your impressive work on Digital Identity here, in Brazil, and […]
AuthZEN Work Group Announces Authorization Interop Results
Conformance with the AuthZEN request/response protocol marks a significant milestone in simplifying and standardizing authorization approaches The OpenID Foundation led the standardization of authentication protocols with OpenID Connect and now we are proud to host the AuthZEN Working Group as they seek to do the same for authorization.” — Gail Hodges, Executive Director for […]
SIDI Hub Announces Roadmap to Drive Cross-Border Interoperability for Digital Identity
The OpenID Foundation is proud to be a founding member of the Sustainable and Interoperable Digital Identity (SIDI) Hub. Interoperability is crucial for a fair and inclusive digital society. By coordinating the digital identity activities already underway, and defining a governance structure for digital identity credentials, the SIDI Hub is helping accelerate the path to […]
OpenID Foundation Chairman Nat Sakimura Speaks on OECD “Recommendations on the Governance of Digital Identity” Panel
This blog was updated on September 28, 2023 to include an updated link that includes the session recordings. OECD hosted a launch event on September 26, 2023 on the Recommendation on the Governance of Digital Identity, (note the session recordings at the bottom of the page) as adopted by the OECD Council in June 2023. […]
Open for Comment “Human-Centric Identity: a primer for government officials”
Government officials, policymakers, technologists, legal scholars, and human rights advocates are invited to offer feedback on a new white paper “Human-Centric Identity: a primer for government officials”. This follows the publication of “Government-issued Digital Credentials and the Privacy Landscape” (Flanagan, 2023), which delved into challenges of creating a globally viable privacy-preserving Digital Identity landscape. This […]
Open Digital Trust Initiative: A Proposal for Financial Institutions to Use an Open Standards Protocol to Verify Identity, Protect Privacy and Build Trust
In the digital space, people need new solutions to know the identity of who they are dealing with and whether or not they can trust them. A number of initiatives are working on the future of digital identity. Some of them are government-led while others are linked to specific private institutions or proprietary technologies. Banks […]