Self-Sovereignty and Independence Online
Date and Time
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location
Online at Jitsi
Presenters
Doc Searls , Emeritus Editor-in-Chief , Linux Journal - doc searls com
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.
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