Archives for January 2021

Internet of People is doing false advertising

Kaliya Young · January 30, 2021 ·

I just learned about the internet of people project. It seems cool…I need to dig in a bit more…but already there is a huge red flag/disconnect for me.

These are the guys who are signing off on this post they put a picture of themselves on zoom.

These are the women (many of them of color) at the top of the page.

I was so hopeful when I started reading this post that this group of women was actually leading this project. THEY ARE JUST STOCK PHOTO.

Protip: If you want to build the future of the web and make it for people your team needs women and people of color on it.

Pretending with photos doesn’t cut it.

Podcast: The Domains of Identity and SSI

Kaliya Young · January 18, 2021 ·

I was on the UbiSecure Podcast where I talked about The Domains of Identity and SSI.

You can also listen to it on Apple, Google, Spotify etc.

Quoted in NYT

Kaliya Young · January 18, 2021 ·

I was quoted in this article about Tim Berner’s Lee and the Solid Project.

….“No one will argue with the direction,” said Liam Broza, a founder of LifeScope, an open-source data project. “He’s on the right side of history. But is what he’s doing really going to work?”

Others say the Solid-Inrupt technology is only part of the answer. “There is lots of work outside Tim Berners-Lee’s project that will be vital to the vision,” said Kaliya Young, co-chair of the Internet Identity Workshop, whose members focus on digital identity.