When: November 18, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Self-Sovereignty and Independence Online Moderator: Doc Searls
Online Location: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org Live stream: https://youtu.be/zgmiVhu9Ogc Summary: A user-centric model for owning and controlling your identity online Abstract: Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is new category with dozens of developers, open source code bases (e.g. Hyperledger Indy), libraries, tools, and at least one core architecture and data model. But what matters most about it is that it serves purposes that have motivated free and open source software developers for decades now: self-sovereignty and personal independence from surveillance and control by others online. Doc has been on this case since he became an editor at Linux Journal in the mid-'90s, and as director of ProjectVRM at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center since 2006. He also considers the challenge of maintaining self-sovereignty and personal independence more important than ever, in our time of normalized—and increasing—corporate and government surveillance of people's lives, both online and off. Bio: Doc Searls is a lifelong journalist who has covered Linux since Linux Journal began in 1994 (and Linux itself was at v 1.0), and served as an editor there for 24 years, most recently as editor-in-chief. He is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, author of The Intention Economy, a fellow of the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an alumni fellow of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University (where he continues to direct ProjectVRM), as well as a visiting scholar at NYU and Indiana University. He also won the Google/O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Communicator in 2005. Doc Searls Weblog: http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/ About Doc Searls: https://www.searls.com/ For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site: http://www.blu.org -- Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com <mailto:gaf.li...@gmail.com>> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
