a conference for anyone who will be around Boston next week and is interested in identity systems. Click here for the conference program.
The Identity Mashup Conference is a three-day open event (June 19th, 20th and 21st) being held at Harvard Law School and the MIT Media Lab to explore the role of identity management systems in furthering or inhibiting privacy, civil liberties, ecommerce, and new forms of civic participation. The conference is being co-organized by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the MIT Media Lab, the Interra Project, and Boston Main Streets.
A variety of parties—governments, technology companies, health organizations, financial institutions, international agencies, and merchants among them—are clamoring for identity systems to address a spectrum of issues from terrorism and child pornography to identity theft and spam. The proposals vary dramatically from national ID cards with centralized data store and a single universal identifier to highly-distributed “user-centric” models with distributed data stores and authenticated anonymity.
The goal of this conference is to examine the problems these organizations are trying to address and assess which solutions offer the greatest benefit. The stakes here are enormous. Incomplete or ill-conceived technological fixes will have adverse effects on civil liberties, privacy, commerce, and national security. The details matter, and they cut across fiefdoms such as policy-making, software design, business, national security, and cryptography that historically have had great difficulty understanding one another. Our hope is that this conference can bridge those divides.
During the course of the conference, participants will have the opportunity to experience open identity enabled applications. There will be demonstrations and opportunities to use the technologies to enhance the conference experience.
A major theme will be “mashups”, that is, the “mashing up” of different open applications to create new kinds of applications. There will be a Global Musical Mashup Community event hosted by Derrick Ashong. The goal is to encourage conversation and experimentation among developers, advocates, merchants, community groups, artists and policy makers to solve policy and business problems through innovation.
The third day is an open space where conference panelists and participants come together to explore and pursue insights and opportunities for new identity, commercial, civic and social technologies and policies. Starting June 19th, those that cannot attend the conference can join the “community hub” at www.idmashup.org. Through the hub they can access webcasts of the plenary sessions and share conference specific content.
You can register here
Conference Tag “idmashup06”
Public Website www.identitymash-up.org
Community Hub www.idmashup.org (starting June 19th)
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