We are proud to announce the first server  for Romania.
Available at www.myopenid.ro with the help of our friends from Netbridge. There are still more to do (like adding a new layout ) but this important milestone deserves to be celebrated.

Thank you all !

A new Romanian government program intends to use OpenID for all public to government on line services.

This announcement is very new and I will come with some additional updates

Net-ID 2008, the fourth annual European conference on Identity, Trust, Privacy and Security, organized by Computas Event Manamement was held at the Ramada Plaza hotel in Basel, Switzerland on 3rd/4th of March 2008.
Speakers and Participants have come to that international event from many international locations such as most countries of Europe as well as the United States, Japan, Korea, etc. With topics such as eID projects of European countries, user centric identity management, identity federation, privacy concerns, cross country alliances and – of course – OpenID have made the conference a huge success.
Especially OpenID was present with a wide range of representatives from OpenID Europe (Snorri Gioretti), OpenID Estonia (Martin Paljak), OpenID Japan (Nat Sakimura) and the local representative of OpenID Switzerland (Robert Ott). Much interest at the audience gave the speech by Martin Paljak on OpenID and e-Government in Estonia where eID’s can be used not only for local government services, but also for all Internet services around the world that implemented the OpenID protocol. Many participants at the conference where surprised that OpenID can be seen as an enabler to increase the use of eID’s without implementing complicated federation protocols.
There were many interesting talks on identity management and the role of OpenID during the coffee breaks, the festive dinner and business lunches. It was a great honor that Nat Sakimura especially came to this event from Japan to exchange experiences on local OpenID chapters with his colleagues from Europe. OpenID not only grows day for day in its population, the OpenID network of individual people form an international friendship breaking barriers and increasing interoperability!