ICF Announces Seven Featured Card Projects

SPECIAL TO RSA-San Francisco-April 20, 2009-The Information Card Foundation (ICF) announced today the first seven Information Card projects to be featured on the new ICF website. The new site will be unveiled at a presentation at the RSA Security conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco today. The announcement will be part of the Harnessing the Power of Digital Identity workshop the ICF is co-sponsoring with the Liberty Alliance on Monday, April 20. The presentation will be held at 2:15 p.m. at Esplanades 301&303 ("Purple 301&303"), Moscone Center.

The seven projects are actual examples of how the Information Card ecosystem simplifies and standardizes identity-based transactions regardless of the site, domain, application, or information involved.

"Just as people needed to first see a Web browser to understand what it could do, now they need to see an Information Card selector to understand its potential," said Drummond Reed, Interim Executive Director of the ICF. "Information cards have moved beyond theory to solve real-world challenges."

Information Cards bring a familiar offline paradigm-the cards you carry in your wallet-to the online world. They work with a new software tool called a selector that operates as an extension to your Web browser. Selectors are available today from ICF members Azigo, Microsoft, and Novell, as well as from several open source projects.

The seven projects to be featured include:

• AAA Discount Reminders helps you never forget another discount as an AAA member.
• ChoixVert Information Card empowers Internet users to learn about the social responsibility of companies and products on the Internet.
• The Equifax Over 18 I-Card is the first Information Card that enables a user to prove, and a business to accept, age verification online.
• The Minuteman Library Network Information Card is the first Information Card to be used as the online equivalent of a physical library card.
• Student Advantage RemindMe I-Card helps families take advantage of the United State's largest student discount program by providing automatic online reminders of Student Advantage deals many popular goods and services.
• The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) I-Card shows how Information Cards can be used to authenticate users to a government demonstration website while preserving privacy, improving security, and virtually eliminating password phishing.
• WebCard Loyalty from fun communications adapts conventional card-based customer loyalty programs to the Internet using Information Cards.

A copy of the complete release is available from the ICF website at www.informationcard.net.