OpenID Foundation

Delighted to announce that the OpenID Foundation is the sponsor of the 'Women's Breakfast' at IIWXLII! This event takes place on Weds 29th April at 07.45am And don't forget to also book your place to attend the OIDF Workshop - either in-person or virtually - on Mon 27th April 2026, just before #IIW gets started 📍 This hybrid event will take in person at Cisco’s Santana Row offices in San Jose, California, USA and online making it accessible to participants worldwide🌍 Event Details: 📅 Date: Monday, 27th April 2026 🕒 Time: 12:30 - 16:30 PDT 📍 Location: Cisco, Santana Row | SJC34, 3098 Olsen Drive, San Jose, California, 95128 United States 🚪🚶Room: SJC34-1-Training Room 💻 Virtual Option: Details on how to join virtually will be emailed to registrants nearer the time. Please Book your place here: https://lnkd.in/eC529gJb

When it comes to digital identity, verifiable credentials play a critical role. They are the foundation of a trust layer for the internet, with applications across health, agriculture, financial inclusion, and cross border trade. That was one of the key messages from a recent webinar by The World Bank Group aimed at governments navigating digital wallets and verifiable credentials. Co-hosting the session was the OpenID Foundation, whose specifications underpin digital identity for billions of people worldwide. The key takeaways for governments included: - More than 38 jurisdictions are now pursuing wallet based, decentralised architectures built on open standards. - In the US alone, fraud losses linked to identity infrastructure weaknesses exceed $1 trillion annually, and AI enabled attacks are making it worse. - The technology is less daunting than it looks. The bigger challenge is ensuring the right institutions know what role they are expected to play. Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/ezuff94b Gail Hodges Goran Vranic Oliver Terbu Elizabeth Garber Christopher Tullis Marie Eichholtzer #VerifiableCredentials #OpenIDFoundation #WorldBank #DigitalGovernment

A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publication is reshaping how financial institutions think about digital identity, and the OpenID Foundation contributed to it. NIST SP 1800-42 provides a practical framework for mobile driver’s licenses (mDL) adoption, replacing reactive audit defence with confidence in identity at the point of onboarding. The Foundation is now extending that work through a new workstream in the Foundation's eKYC & IDA Working Group, and it is open to global participation. Read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/eZciPdyV Dima Postnikov 🆔 💯Juliana Cafik #DigitalIdentity #OpenIDFoundation #eKYC #mDL

😴 18 sleeps until the next OIDF Workshop! ✨ Have you booked your place yet? ✨ Don't forget to register to attend either in-person or virtually on Mon 27th April 2026, just before the Spring 2026 Internet Identity Workshop (#IIW). 📍 This hybrid event will take in person at Cisco’s Santana Row offices in San Jose, California, USA and online making it accessible to participants worldwide🌍 Event Details: 📅 Date: Monday, 27th April 2026 🕒 Time: 12:30 - 16:30 PDT 📍 Location: Cisco, Santana Row | SJC34, 3098 Olsen Drive, San Jose, California, 95128 United States 🚪🚶Room: SJC34-1-Training Room 💻 Virtual Option: Details on how to join virtually will be emailed to registrants nearer the time. Please Book your place here: https://lnkd.in/eC529gJb

Some years pass quietly. For the OpenID Foundation, 2025 was not one of them. We started a blog post about it, and it turned into this “Year in Review” report. The story it tells is one we are genuinely proud of. International recognition, real world interoperability, and OpenID Foundation standards deployed as national infrastructure across 38 jurisdictions worldwide. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eabXwaXu Nat Sakimura 💯 Dima Postnikov 🆔 💯 Marie Jordan Nancy Cam-Winget Takahiko Kawasaki Elcio Calefi Dirk Balfanz Matt Slocum Pamela Dingle Aaron Parecki Wesley Dunnington Mike Kiser Naveen CM John Bradley Michael Jones Mark Verstege #OpenIDFoundation #DigitalIdentity #OpenStandards #FAPI #VerifiableCredentials #OIDF

✨ Have you registered yet?✨ Don't forget to book your place (in-person or virtual) to attend the OpenID Foundation workshop on Mon 27th April 2026, just before the Spring 2026 Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). 📍 This hybrid event will take in person at Cisco’s Santana Row offices in San Jose, California, USA and online making it accessible to participants worldwide🌍 Event Details: 📅 Date: Monday, 27th April 2026 🕒 Time: 12:30 - 16:30 PDT 📍 Location: Cisco, Santana Row | SJC34, 3098 Olsen Drive, San Jose, California, 95128 United States 🚪🚶Room: SJC34-1-Training Room 💻 Virtual Option: Details on how to join virtually will be emailed to registrants nearer the time. Please Book your place here: https://lnkd.in/eC529gJb

✨ Have you registered yet?✨ Don't forget to book your place (in-person or virtual) to attend the OpenID Foundation workshop on Mon 27th April 2026, just before the Spring 2026 Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). 📍 This hybrid event will take in person at Cisco’s Santana Row offices in San Jose, California, USA and online making it accessible to participants worldwide🌍 Event Details: 📅 Date: Monday, 27th April 2026 🕒 Time: 12:30 - 16:30 PDT 📍 Location: Cisco, Santana Row | SJC34, 3098 Olsen Drive, San Jose, California, 95128 United States 🚪🚶Room: SJC34-1-Training Room 💻 Virtual Option: Details on how to join virtually will be emailed to registrants nearer the time. Please Book your place here: https://lnkd.in/eC529gJb

Great to see Eve Maler's byline go live on the Insurance Thought Leadership website, exploring how deceased policyholders' digital accounts remain accessible to fraudsters while locked to legitimate beneficiaries, and what the identity industry needs to do about it. The piece draws on work from the OpenID Foundation's DADE Community Group, whose whitepaper - The Unfinished Digital Estate - sets out the full framework and recommendations. Read more about the paper here:

Death fraud is a growing threat, and most organisations aren't prepared for it. With insights from the OpenID Foundation's Dean H. Saxe and Mike Kiser, Computerworld sets out what IT leaders need to know about AI-fuelled death fraud - where fraudsters use AI generated death certificates to take over accounts, or fake the credentials of a deceased person's next of kin. Read the full Computerworld article here: https://lnkd.in/dcx-BPAV The problem cuts across industries. Financial services, insurance, healthcare, legal services, and large online platforms all face serious exposure. Today's verification processes simply weren't built for AI generated documents that can be produced quickly, at scale, and tested across multiple organisations until one passes review. The OpenID Foundation's Death and Digital Estate (DADE) Community Group, which is working on developing the standards and frameworks needed to close this gap, is calling for those working in identity, security, digital trust, or any of the industries above, to get involved. DADE is open to organisations and individuals. To find out more, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eS6ffKfE #DigitalIdentity #Fraud #AI #CyberSecurity #FinancialServices #Healthcare #LegalServices #OpenIDFoundation

We are delighted to share that the Kantara Initiative has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to come on board as the first Authorized Auditor under our independent conformance testing program. As the program grows, independent oversight is essential to ensure that the organisations conducting conformance testing meet the standards the ecosystem depends on. The Kantara Initiative brings deep expertise in assurance programs, trust frameworks, and identity governance that makes it well suited to this role. Read more about what this means for the program and the broader digital identity ecosystem: https://lnkd.in/eGr2fzk7 Eve Maler Gail Hodges