For the reax and take-aways from today’s Mobile Identity workshop, see Berk-people Urs Gasser, Doc Searls, Dave Winer, among others. And if you’re in downtown San Francisco this evening (Friday, 1/26/07), swing by the Hotel Vitale for the Berkman West reception!
Later this week, the Berkman Center heads west to San Francisco. We’re hosting an unconference on Mobile Identity, led by fellows Doc Searls, John Clippinger, Mary Rundle, Urs Gasser and others. It’s free and open, but you should sign up if you’d like to come, as space is limited. CNet is kindly hosting us. We’re … Read more
Today, the Berkman Center joins Urs Gasser and all our friends from the University of St. Gallen in hosting a workshop on interoperability and innovation, in Weissbad, Switzerland. We are in the company of an interesting, eclectic group of technologists, academics, and NGOs leaders. The briefing papers are online. This workshop is one in a … Read more
Today we welcome officially Doc Searls to the Berkman fellowship. He leads the lunch discussion today on his research topics for the year, attention and digital identity.
I think the key aspects of this conference are figuring out how to make this digital identity business 1) real and understandable to non-technical people (use case-driven, etc.) and 2) a genuine improvement over what we have today, or have had in the past (privacy-enhancing? a better online experience? better grease for commercial transactions?). Tid-bits: … Read more
Tomorrow morning, we begin the digital identity mash-up conference. I have reason to expect a particularly cool demo from Louise Guay, CEO of My Virtual Model. Whether you’re in Cambridge, MA, or not, come visit and participate in the community hub. And follow along with Beth Noveck and all manner of other wonderful people coming … Read more
A year’s research on the digital identity metasystem, led by Berkman fellow John Clippinger, culminates in the Identity Mash-up conference June 19 – 21. The participant and speaker lists are already taking excellent shape. The idea is to explore in depth the development of a federated system of digital identities and to explore ways in … Read more
John Clippinger, Oliver Goodenough, and company have brought the question of the future of digital institutions to the Berkman Center today. We’ve been visited by old friends — David Johnson, Urs Gasser, Judith Donath — as well as distinguished neighbors from elsewhere at Harvard — including Prof. Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Prof. Joseph Nye, former dean … Read more