Identity Woman

Independent Advocate for the Rights and Dignity of our Digital Selves

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Speaking at the 2023 Conference of the Plurality Research Network

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At the Plurality Research Network Conference 2023, which commenced on January 13, 2022, and continued through January 15, 2023, I delivered a lighting talk the first day.

A Little Introduction to the Conference

Researchers and practitioners from various domains, such as computer science, sociology, political ethics, and government, who are exploring plural technologies are brought together at the Plurality Institute.

Plural technologies are reusable computing platforms that promote collaboration and development across various social communities.

A Brief Overview of My Talk at the Conference

Plurality Research Network Live Conference

During my presentation at the conference, I discussed the issues and difficulties that are associated with digital identifier systems, including the following examples:

  • There is no way for us to influence the assignment of digital Identifiers (private namespaces and globally managed registries).
  • Architectures for phone home or surveillance systems (the OpenID authentication process).
  • There is no standard method for sharing attributes.

I also discussed how different groups, organizations, and political systems handled the management of their own boundaries historically using paper.

After that, dove into Decentralized Identity. I went through the identifiers that don’t fall under the category of private namespaces or global registries. In essence, the protocols of DID (decentralized identifier), together with the standard components of the DID document, as well as Verifiable Credentials. You can se my talk here.

I really enjoyed the other talks given that first day. You can see them all here – if you click on “show more” in the comment each different speaker has their own links.

Self-Sovereign Identity for the Decentralized Web Summit

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Introduction to Self-Sovereign Identity at the Decentralized Web Summit

I gave a presentation, “Introduction to Self-Sovereign Identity” at the Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco, California, on August 1, 2018. Self-Sovereign Identity helps individuals have control over their own identifier. This talk shares the origins of the work and how it works.

Self-Sovereign Identity at RightsCon

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I gave a talk, “Self-Sovereign Identity” at RightsCon in Tronto, Canada, on May 18, 2018.

Self-Sovereign Identity at RightsCon

Self-Sovereign Identity technology has enormous potential to empower individuals and address privacy challenges globally. It uses shared ledgers (blockchain) to give individuals the power to create and manage their own identifiers, collect verified claims and interact with others on the network on their terms.

Identity is Changing: The Rise of Self-Sovereign Identity Infrastructure using Blockchain

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I gave a presentation, “Identity is Changing: The Rise of Self-Sovereign Identity Infrastructure using Blockchain,” at InteroplTX on May 2, 2018.

Identity is Changing at InteroplTX

Identity can seem deceptively simple. We know who we are. Sometimes we have to convince others of that fact and confirm other characteristics: our age, our qualifications, or our right to access some services or tools. This happens every day over the Internet, but in ways that are disorganized, redundant, and risky. The lack of reliable, universal standards puts our private information at risk of public dissemination, fraud or worse.

A new set of standards is emerging that creates an infrastructure for self-sovereign identity that can scale. This talk looks forward to help you think ahead and prepare for this new infrastructure. We will walk through standards that together create a new identity infrastructure that leverages the blockchain. This isn’t about what you can implement tomorrow to solve your employee identity challenges or manage customer accounts. It will instead prepare you for the coming changes and help you play a role in shaping them.

My Identiverse: The Evolution of Digital Identity and Openness, Plenary Digital Identity and Embodied Practice

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I was asked to give this talk at the What is Universe? at the University of Oregon, (on their Portland Campus). I cover the history of the Internet Identity Workshop and talk about its core nature as a torus / bowl a feminine form and how this has resulted in the innovation of Self-Sovereign Identity.

Personal Data, My Value Six Sense Making Diagrams in the Rise of the Personal Information Economy Workshop

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This talk was presented at the 2016 Cloud Identity Summit. It was in the Rise of the Identity-enabled Personal Information Economy Track. It puts forward 6 Diagrams to make Sense of the overall Personal Data Ecosystem including What is Personal Data? What Happens to Personal Data? What are Market Models and how is it regulated?

Ethical Market Models in the Personal Data Ecosystem

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This is the presentation I gave at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing October 2015. It covers three main ethical market models that could support the emergence of a Personal Data Ecosystem centered on individuals and their personal clouds. The three models are Vendor Relationship Management, Infomediaries, and Data Aggregators. It highlights the need for Accountability Frameworks (also called Trust Frameworks) combinations of code and law/policy. This is contextualized in an overall Landscape picture where two other modes of governance also co-exist – Peer Governance and Identifier Governance.

Identification and Social Justice

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I, along with Bob Blakley, gave this talk as the closing keynote for the Cloud Identity Summit on July 19th, 2012 in Vail Colorado. It discusses a range of issues and options for identity in society. It postulates that social justice or fairness must be an underlying design feature of any system. It encourages people to get involved with the NSTIC process and the current steering committee being formed.