This year, the Berkman faculty and fellows will publish four books on topics related to our field. Join us for the celebration of the first of the four to come out, John Clippinger’s “A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity,” published by PublicAffairs Books. The celebration will take place on Thursday, April 19, … Read more
Today, I’m in Montreal for La Boule de Cristal, talking about Digital Natives and Digital Identity — or, apparently, La gestion des identites, en francais. It’s quite a venue and a huge event, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and lots of Montreal-based researchers and entrepreneurs.
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
The Berkman communications team has been conducting a series of interviews with our fellows. The interviews are written up and posted to the Berkman website. The most recent interview is with Prof. Dr. Urs Gasser, a faculty fellow and the director of a research center at the University of St. Gallen. His center — along … 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.
Doc Searls quoted Chris Locke in the last panel of today’s day 1 of the digital ID mash-up conference. We haven’t gotten to the point where customers/end-users/seats are yet treated like people, Doc claims. The issue is the creation of relationships, not just market-clearing prices. He’s focused now on the Intention Economy — which, he … Read more
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