Identity Woman

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Speaking at Blockchain Summit India

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I am in India as a New America India-US Public Interest Technology Fellow. My topic of study is Aadhaar the country’s national digital Identity system.
This Friday I am speaking at the Blockchain India Summit on a panel:
Aadhaar on Blockchain, a potential solution for continued innovation

The rapid march of Aadhaar came to a sudden halt with its declaration on acting unconstitutionally and violating fundamental Indian rights! This also halted new ways of innovation happening in FinTech. Is it time to redesign Aadhaar while ensuring the data ownership resides with the citizen and yet safe, secure and effective.

  • Vishal Gupta CEO, Diro
  • Sarang Bhoyar, Blockchain Program Manager, Infosys
  • Kaliya Young, New America India-U.S. Public Interest Technology Fellow
  • Dinesh Prasad, Asia Head, Ex- Qualcomm
  • Saurabh Katiyar, Program Head, NIIT
  • Moderator: Vaibhav Vardhan, Founder and CEO, Inc42 Media

It will be a bit of a challenge to explain/get across the new decentralized Identity and Self-Sovereign Identity tech without any slides and what will likely be one question. For those coming to find this site after hearing me talk here are some good resources.
Internet Identity Workshop – please join us to dive into the deep end of the pool with the community building the goals.
The W3C group on Decentralized Identifiers is in the Credentials Community Group 
The specification for Verifiable Credentials.
There is also this Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity. If you are interested in it but can’t afford it just fill out this form. 

Here is some more about the conference from their web site:
The Summit is targeted towards enabling Indian government and ministries to speed up the process of developing a flourished Blockchain and Cryptocurrency ecosystem. Global Blockchain brands and government bodies are joining to make India, a Blockchain capital.

Vision Blockchain 2030!

Started with a vision to bring full transparency in Governance and a flourished economy for India in coming 10 years.

Blockchain Summit India 2019 is first edition in series of Vision Blockchain 2030. Indian Government, various ministries, country’s premium academic institutes and country’s most influential people are participating to support the initiative.

https://blockchain2030.co.in/agenda.html

Speaking at One Nation One Platform: The inclusion manifesto

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I met with Mr. Sameer Kochhar early on in my trip to India as a New America India-US Public Interest Technology Fellow. I learned about his perspective on Aadhaar and also more about this vision about the underlying issues and how they can be addressed. He invite me to speak at his conference on Feb 25th about Inclusion at the Constitution Club of India
This advertisement just appeared in the newspaper about it.

Domains of Identity

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You can download: a summary of the Domains of Identity Here

You can buy the book: published  by Anthem Press. 

On Amazon, On BN, At Powell’s 

The Domains of Identity
by Kaliya “Identity Woman” Young, MSIMS
Abstract:  The Domains of Identity outlines sixteen key categories of transactions  which cause personally identifiable information to be stored in databases. The purpose of this research is to address challenges of Identity Management that involve interactions of almost all people in almost all institutional/organizational contexts. Enumerating the sixteen domains and describing the characteristics of each domain is intended to clarify which problems arise and how they can be solved within each domain. Discussions of identity management are often confusing because they mix issues from multiple domains, or because they try unsuccessfully to apply solutions from one domain to problems in another. Part of the objective of this article is to eliminate this confusion and enable clearer conversations about identity management problems and solutions.
About this Paper: The first version was submitted to the University of Texas at Austin to fulfill the report requirement for the Master of Science in Identity Management and Security.  The Co-Supervisors were Dr. Dawna Ballard and Dr. Bob Blakley.
From the Introduction: There are a few very obvious and much-discussed archetypical identity management scenarios:

  • employee to employer
  • citizen to government
  • consumer to merchant

Each one of these has very different power relationships and characteristics. Through conversations arising out of the UT Austin Masters of Science in Identity Management program, it became clear that these three simple scenarios were not comprehensive enough to hold the whole range of activities that lead to individual’s Personally Identifiable Information (PII) being collected, ending up in databases, and being used and misused. I worked to define a simple comprehensives set of domains, each with different processes and contexts, where individual’s data (PII) ends up in databases. The result is the sixteen domains of identity. Once the domains had been defined, I dove into all the academic research relative to identity management, finding more than 900 articles in the UT Library, and then sifted through them to identify papers that specifically explained and defined the domains. For my masters report, I wrote out detailed descriptions of each domain based on the literature. This article defines the domains and presents a symbol for each the relationship to other domains along with the roles and sources of PII.
The big challenge with the fields of identity management and privacy is that both involve issues across the lifespan of all people and across virtually all institutional/organizational contexts they encounter. Everyone in our society participates in some type of “identity management” on almost a daily basis. It is so common that we do not really think about it. As a result, the discourse about identity often conflates radically different issues.
The black market in which personal data is bought and sold is very different from the contemporary data broker industry, but it is not uncommon for people with fears about personal data use to lump these two contexts together – forgetting that one is a legal business market and the other is a result of criminal activity. For example, an enterprise with weak one factor authentication that is attacked in a spear phishing attack to gain access to the employee directories, exfiltrate information, and sell it on the black market. This type of attack is quite different than the type of data breach Target experienced where the criminals accessed customer credit card information via the controls in the HVAC system and put it on the black market. This research outlines sixteen domains that can hold a comprehensive set of use cases across all the domains that identity management happens in. I define identity domains as the contexts where databases of personally identifying information about people are created or used. These domains are not new. All of them existed 100 years ago. However, computer technologies have changed how they operate.
Enumerating the sixteen domains and describing the characteristics of each domain is intended to enable clear thinking about which problems arise in each domain, and how problems can be solved within each domain. Discussions of identity management are often confusing because they mix issues from multiple domains, or try unsuccessfully to apply solutions from one domain to problems in another domain. One of the objectives of this paper is to eliminate this confusion and enable clearer conversation about identity management problems and solutions that will enhance security and increase privacy.

IIW is early!! We are 20!! We have T-Shirts

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Internet Identity Workshop is only a month away. April 7-9, 2015
Regular tickets are only on sale until March 20th. Then prices to up again to late registration.
I’m hoping that we can have a few before we get to IIW #20!!
Yes it’s almost 10 years since we first met (10 years will be in the fall).
I’m working on a presentation about the history of the Identity Gang, Identity Commons and the whole community around IIW over the last 10 years.
Where have we come from?…leads to the question…. where are we going?  We plan to host at least one session about these questions during IIW.
It goes along with the potential anthology that I have outlined (But have a lot more work to get it completed).

Internet Identity Workshop #20 is in April !!

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IIW is turning 20 !
That is kind of amazing. So much has evolved in those 10 years.
So many challenges we started out trying to solve are still not solved.
I actually think it would be interesting as we approach this milestone to talk about what has been accomplished and what we think is yet to be accomplished.
I am working on organizing a crowd funding campaign to support completing an anthology that I have outlined and partially pulled together. I will be asking for your support soon. Here is the post on my blog about it.
In the mean time tickets for IIW are up and for sale! You can also order a special T-shirt we are designing especially for the occasion.

I've co-founded a company! The Leola Group

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Thursday evening following Internet Identity Workshop #18 in May I co-Founded and became Co-CEO of the Leola Group with my partner William Dyson.
So how did this all happen? Through a series of interesting coincidences in the 10 days (yes just 10 days) William got XDI to work for building working consumer facing applications. He showed the music meta-data application on Thursday evening and wowed many with the working name Nymble registry.  The XDI [eXtneible Resource Identifier Data Interchange] standard has been under development at OASIS for over 10 years. Getting it to actually work and having the opportunity to begin to build applications that really put people at the center of their own data lives is a big step forward both for the Leola Group and the  Personal Data community at large.
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Rosie the [New Language] Developer – Where are you?

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This past week we [me, Phil, Heidi + Doc] put on the Internet Identity Workshop. It was amazing.
There is a new project / company forming and they are very keen to have women programmers/developers in the first wave of hires.  They are also committed to cultural diversity.
Since they are developing in a new language – you don’t need to have experience in “it” – you just need to have talent and the ability to learn new things.
I asked them for a list of potentially helpful per-requisites:

  • Some experience with ruby on rails
  • Some experience with JSON
  • Some experience with XML
  • Some experience with HTML5
  • Some experience with semantic data modeling
  • Some understanding of the ideas related to the semantic web and giant global graphs

If you are reading the list and thinking – I don’t have “all” of those qualifications…then read this before you decide not to reach out to learn more – The Confidence Gap from this month’s Atlantic.  TL:DR “Remember that women only apply if they have 100% of the jobs qualifications, but men apply with 60%!”
Please be in touch with me if you are interested. I will connect you with them this week.
Kaliya [at] identitywoman [dot] net
 
 
 
 

Personal Clouds, Digital Enlightenment, Identity North

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Next week Thursday August 22nd is the Personal Cloud Meetup in San Francisco. It will be hosted at MSFT.  If you want to get connected to the community it is a great way to do so. Here is where you register. 
In September I’m heading to Europe for the Digital Enlightenment Forum September 18-20th. I’m excited about the program and encourage those of you in Europe who might be reading this to consider attending. We are doing a 1/2 day of Open Space (what we do at IIW) where the agenda is created live at the event.
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Surfacing back into Cyberspace at Building 43 today

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Basically this post is to say I am “back” – I have a bit more time on my hands this summer to pay attention to Cyberspace and want to give attention to expressing my thoughts and ideas in text online again. I am inspired by this mention by Scoble around the launch of  Building 43 that is happening today. I thought it was an actual physical space when I got the invitation. Turns out it is a website that Robert Scoble is leading. It is focused on what he calls the 2010 web and others call Web 3.0.

Here’s another way to put it. When you look at Techmeme and see all the tech bloggers yammering on about the latest cool things, the way they were this week about Facebook’s new URLs that are coming out tomorrow, or Apple’s new iPhone, do they look backward and think about the average businessperson? Not in my experience. We don’t have an industry conversation about how to actually use all this cool stuff to improve lives, make businesses stronger and closer to their customers, and have some fun.
A few people here and there are trying. I watch what Chris Messina, David Recordon, Marc Canter, Joseph Smarr, Kaliya Hamlin, and a group of others are trying to do by pushing a more open web. Those are the kinds of efforts that inspire me and are inspiring Building43. Can we build on what they are trying to do and take it to main street?

This actually impresses me cause I thought Scoble had just become an internet micro-celebrety for its own sake. I look forward to contributing to the conversation about the future of what is becoming a very social web where peoples identity online matters deeply.
Here is where I have been since my last post.
Since Social Web Foo Camp and posting the 80% complete article about communities context and online life. I haven’t blogged. I have been very busy though.
Immediately following I attended the “identity day” at RSA on Monday April 20th –  talks were given from the front of the room for a day. Liberty Alliance put the day together along with the Information Card Foundation- The Kantara Initiative was “launched”. I am not clear that the format of the day actually provided greater understanding by those outside our community that are confused by all the activity.
The exciting thing that happened leading up to this day was the launch of the new Information Card Foundation Website – I gave some feedback that was included in the core language and messaging. It has great Flash animation explaining the cards along with featured projects including the GSA Demo.
RSA was fun – I didn’t spend to much time in sessions mostly talking to people in the community. I led a peer-to-peer session on Business Models for Claims Based Identity. A good group attended however the room layout was cold and stale. (I will be writing about it on my unconference blog shortly).
Penguin Day followed on April 25th. This is a super fun day facilitated by Allen Gunn focused on Non-Profits and Open Source. I learned more about TikiWiki as a content management system (I am considering it as the platform for She’s Geeky). I also was impressed by how much CiviCRM had improved. I also talked to a college registrar very interested in how information card technology might play a roll in getting them out of paper based management of student records and certification.
The Nonprofit Technology Conference followed – they had a large exhibit hall and I talked to many of the vendors there about OpenID and Information Cards – about 1/2 had heard about OpenID and almost none about Information Cards. It was great to talk to my friends in the industry (I have been attending this conference since 2004). Social Actions is progressing and is creating a way to aggregate action information for social good.
I flew to NYC to facilitate the Creative Unconference on May 7-8 put on by the One Club for Art and Copy collaborating with the Society for Digital Agencies.  This was during Creative Week. The One Club gives out bronze, sliver and gold pencil’s – some of the most prestigious awards in the advertising business. They attended their interactive awards on Friday night – I brought Robert Tolmach along as a guest and he told me about his new project – Class Wish.
I went to DC and spent the day at the Sex 2.0 conference at the intersection of social media, feminism and sexuality. I was particularly interested in how this community was thinking thinking about and dealing identity online and off. Many people had names they went by within the community that were different from their “every day” names. Several presenters talked about having two facebook profiles (one for their sex life and one for regular life) I pointed out that this against facebook policy and they were surprised – it seemed very natural to have two persona’s. Other presenters talked about being fully “out” completely linking their sex life.
I attended the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology Women of Vision Awards. It was a very inspiring evening. Padmashree Warrior the CTO of Cisco was the key note speaker – she was super inspiring and gave ideas about how to connect to the community 2.0 audience.
I spoke at Community 2.0 about identity technologies. I covered OpenID, OAuth and Information Cards and at the end mentioned project VRM for those who were very forward looking. It was a relatively small conference and I spent a lot of time preparing for the talk with my speech coach. My issue has been having to much to say – I can talk about identity for hours and in great detail. Lura helped me figure out what to say. I did a good job clearly communicating and had several people say they enjoyed my talk and it gave them some practical information not just social media guru hype.
I went to the first day of the VRM workshop and was totally impressed by the quality of projects and companies working in the space. Several attendees didn’t know about IIW and a few signed up to attend.
The Internet Identity Workshop was AMAZING. We had the same number of attendees as we usually do. I am going to write some more posts about the event soon. The next IIW is November 3-5 in Mountain View.
I went to the Maker Faire on Sunday the 31st of May – it was fun to see all the stuff people are making. I also got a LiveScribe Pen. I will be using it for diagrams on this blog in the coming months.
June 1 was CommunityOne where i saw Jono Bacon talk about Community there were 10 people to see him speak in an auditorium that held 1000.
I flew to Boston and met with Fabio Carara of the Venice Project Center and Venice 2.0 – they are considering how to leverage 20 years worth of geo-data. We are discussing building a community including a few unconferences.
I had dinner with Mary Ruddy and we continued progress on Identity Commons infrastructure – particularly our new blog/website.
I facilitated the Mass Technology Leadership Council Spring Meeting that asked the question “What is the future of Software and the Internet” I lead a session on identity – they asked good questions and were impressed by all the activity in the space.
I flew to San Francisco – to make it back for the 2nd Scala Lift Off. Scala is a programming language – some describe as Java++, Lift is a web framework. This is a great programming language community with an healthy online community life. I work supporting them in community building when the meet face-to-face.
Yesterday I was working with Forum One facilitating the 4th Online Community Unconference. This is a great community of online community managers (the folks who moderate online community), platform providers (software providers) and hosts (companies that have online communities). I presented a session about OpenID, OAuth and Information Cards – I even got a bottle of wine during the closing from one of the attendees thanking me for the quality of information that I shared.
Today it is the Building 43 party at Tech Crunch and next week is SemWeb in San Jose – I will likely make it to the Personal Democracy Forum. The next “identity” event is Burton Group Catalyst at the end of July in San Diego.
I look forward engaging in this medium again with a post every few days.

Congradulations Pam!

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Pam has officially announced launching her new company – Bonsai Identity.

I remember when I first met Pam at the very end of the first DIDW that I went to in the fall of 2004. I really got to know her when we were attending the Burton Group catalyst conference in 2005.

She has been a great friend to me in the community and now when we go to conferences we are often roomies.

Congratulations Pam!

Internet Identity Workshop May 18-20

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We have opened registration for the 8th Internet Identity Workshop! May 18-20th in Mountain View California.
There are a few things that are different this time around….
We have a shinny new website/blog!
Thanks to Mary Ruddy, Stas Zubalevich and Pam Dingle for helping make it happen.
We are using eventbrite to do registration – and we will be displaying the names of those who are registered.
We are asking questions as you register about what you hope accomplish /talk about at IIW and publishing them.
We have responded to the economic times and lowered the price for the first month of registration (a $50 discount for independents and a $75 for everyone else).
We have an early registration goal of 75 people by the end of the month.
We are starting on Monday morning with a hands on introduction to identity technologies and we will being participant generated sessions at 1pm on Monday.
Demo’s – community sharing of projects and products will happen on Tuesday afternoon.
We are being we have a sub theme that we are promoting – “what are the business models for identity” this is so that “business” oriented folks will attend and hopefully get some where answering this. (we might have some other explicit sub-themes we name as the workshop approaches and community members give feedback on key topics that are arising/need attention)
We will have a different venue for Tuesday night dinner!
Travel is cheaper then ever (so even though your budgets are lower you should be able to make it here for less).
The blog will have guest posts by community members leading up to the conference. (if you want to say something here just let me know)
We will have had the ID-Legal conference in April and will have a cool map of the gap between identity technologies and different legal lenses.
The same….
* We have blog badges for you to use in your posts – put on your blogs.
* We will have Monday night dinner at Tied House
* We will give community awards open style at the end of Wednesday. (if you want to be the wine/other gift buyer or donor let us know)
* The Avante (our conference hotel) will Rock!

You know your conference is to cheap when…

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You know your conference is to cheap when other conferences offer you $200 discounts to register EARLY and yours only costs $200.

In case you missed it the Internet Identity Workshop has an announcement up and registration is open. Phil and I implore you to PLEASE register early so we know how many of you are coming.
We subtly softened our language about “user-centric identity” to take into account that there is some concern that this might be going to far in one direction and it may be that the parameters of the relationship in the middle is where the focus needs to be.

The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on what has been called user-centric identity. Basically asking the question how can people manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to, purchase from and participate with. IIW is a working meeting for a range of groups focused on the technical, social and legal issues arising with the emergence identity, relationship and social layer of the web.

I think this year Identity as a service will make a strong appearance. Companies like Symplified are doing interesting things that have application in the enterprise market first but could have usefulness on the consumer side maybe sooner then we think.
More from the announcement:
As a community we have been exploring these kinds of questions:

  • How are social networking sites and social media tools applying user-centric identity? (this is the question I am interested in knowing more about. How is it working now that you can actually implement some of this stuff – it is not just big ideas any more)
  • What are the open standards to make it work? (identity and semantic)
  • What are technical implementations of those standards?
  • How do different standards and technical implementations interoperate?
  • What are the new social norms and legal constructs needed to make it work?
  • What tools are needed to make it usably secure for end-users?
  • What are the businesses cases / models that drive all this?

Our event is highly participatory anyone who wants to present can do so. The agenda is made all together on Tuesday morning. We do this unconference style – for those who have not yet been you can read what community leaders have said about the effectiveness of the format.
If you are NEW please come to Monday’s introductory session starting at 1pm. If you have attended before it is worth coming to get the latest updates on where things are.
Yes it is CHEAP – $200 if you are an independant, and $350 if you come from a corporateion. You get all your meals paid for (healthy food – some say the best ever conference food).
If you want to come and you can’t afford it – talk to us – we want you there if you want to be there.
If you are an Identity blogger and have been to IIW PLEASE blog about this one coming up. We also have a blog sidebar logo you an put up.
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Summer Break – offline for 10+ days

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I am heading off to Cortes Island until August 6th and then Vancouver for 3-4 days and then to Seattle around August 10th until the 13th ish.
On Cortes I will be at Hollyhock – if you check out their website you will see my smiling face at their poster child in their rolling banner graphics.
Let me know if you want to meet when in Vancovuer of Seattle – via e-mail (kaliya at Mac dot com). I managed to leave my main iPhone at friend’s house the day before I left and then also forget the backup phone on the dresser as I was leaving this morning at 6.

Big Annoucement: Information Card Foundation

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This is the Information Card Foundation website. Charles Andres the ED of the foundation has been working hard getting it ready.
This announcement is really big news on several levels.
There are major internet players on board committed to cooperating together on this technology – as the founding corporate board members Novell, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, PayPal, Equifax. There are quite a few companies that are also launch members:
Arcot Systems,
Aristotle,
A.T.E. Software,
BackgroundChecks.com,
CORISECIO,
FuGen Solutions,
Fun Communications,
Gemalto,
IDology,
IPcommerce,
ooTao,
Parity Communications,
Ping Identity,
Privo,
Wave Systems,
WSO2;
associate members
Fraunhofer Institute
Liberty Alliance;
The people in this community on the board are also really great and have met an talked with most of them myself.
Paul Trevithick,
Kim Cameron, (as a community member not MSFT’s rep)
Mary Ruddy,
Ben Laurie
Pamela Dingle
Patrick Harding
Drummond Reed
Andrew Hodgkinson (I haven’t met)
Axel Nenker (I haven’t met)
Mike Jones (as the MSFT board member)
This includes PayPal and Equifax who have been publicly involved with the user-centric identity efforts until now.
One of the issues with information cards will end-users actually adopt the client side code they need to make this work? And who will issue managed information cards.
PayPal has the ability to really drive client side adoption of card selectors and to be a managed card issuer.
It got coverage in the NYTimes. (Yhey spell Bob Blakley’s name wrong in it)
I found it frustrating they said these technologies were “like a drivers license”
The community has worked so hard on the Laws of Identity and the OECD paper with the Principles of Identity. Drivers Licenses seem like the wrong analogy to explain the technology and make people safe or excited about it. I don’t like being asked for my drivers license everywhere – it often gives away to much information. Oh well. I guess there is more explaining to do about how these systems can and should work to improve on how we do identity in the real world with drivers licenses.

At Burton Group Catalyst! Exciting week ahead.

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This week I am diving back into Identity at Burton Group Catalyst Conference – I am writing you from the Federation workshop offered by Jerry and Doug. It has been just over a month since the Internet Identity Workshop. I am excited to be able to spend the week with all the fun smart folks working hard on user-centric identity here. Lots is happening we had the Information Card Foundation announcement today and I hear there are other announcements this week.
Bob issued a challenge at IIW about the languaging we have used to describe our community goals/activity – is user-centrism swinging the pendulum to far? I hope that this week some more clarity might emerge this week on what we might call our efforts. I am up for this even though it might mean I need to change my tag line “Saving the World with User-Centric Identity.”

Newbies 4 Newbies Call Tomorrow

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If user-centric identity, the identity meta-system, identity commons and all this stuff is confusing.
You are wading through all this content on these blogs and wikis and going “AHHH! I just want someone to explain it.”
Well we have the group for you!
Newbies 4 Newbies formed not to be “experts” explaining it to new folks but instead to support new people sharing with each other resources that they found helpful and to challenge the ‘older’ members of the community to better explain things.
The group has a mailing list and is having its 2nd conference call tomorrow 🙂 Newbies are welcome 🙂 Click on their wiki page for details – call number to be posted shortly both there and on the mailing list.

Data Sharing Workshop and 2nd Summit

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About a week ago I posted about the choice landscape we have for these events. No one seemed to have an opinion so we went with both and are having one event leaning more towards ‘the technical’ and another leaning more towards vendors with products and potential buyers.
The Data Sharing Workshop, April 18 – 19 at the SFSU, Downtown Campus.
The Data Sharing Summit, May 15, at the Computer History Museum. (immediately following the Internet Identity Workshop)
We received such a positive response to the Data Sharing Summit in September, 2007 and, given the ongoing emergence of different data sharing initiatives, such as dataportability.org, Social Networking Portability, the 1.0 release of the Higgins Framework, DiSO, MT activity feeds, etc. we decided that it was a good time to hold another summit.
Our purpose is to provide gathering spaces in which all parties can work together on the challenge of data sharing. We create the agenda the day it happens. It is about getting things done and figuring out the tough problems – there is no committee deciding who does or does not get to ‘present’ it is about breaking up and really diving in figuring out the solutions and building the consensus to get adoption.
Data Sharing Workshop Details
April 18-19, Friday-Saturday, SFSU Downtown Campus
We selected April 18th and 19th because it seemed like an ideal time to host this event, given that it falls in between RSA and Web 2.0 Expo. People who are the Bay Area from around the world will be able to participate in figuring out how to get data sharing to happen. Although the event will focus on technical aspects, it will also include social, legal and business issues related to data sharing. The space can accommodate up to 200 attendees.
This event is being co-presented by SFSU Institue for the Next Generation Internet

We decided to hold the event on Friday and Saturday to accommodate the needs of different attendees. If you are at a company that is focused on this work and you prefer not to work on weekends, you can attend Friday. Or if you are interested in the subject but are unable to attend due to work commitments, you can come on Saturday. Those who are highly dedicated can come to both days.
Data Sharing Summit 2 Details
May 15, Thursday, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
This event will immediately follow the Sixth Internet Identity Workshop at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA. There will be a combined focus on technical work and on opportunities for vendors with solutions in this space to share and connect with potential adopters of Data Sharing tools.
You may want to arrive on the afternoon of May 14th to participate in Internet Identity Workshop activities relevant to DSS (such as the OSIS Interop). May 15th will be a long intensive day, ending around 5 or 6, in time for dinner. Because it is important to close the event together as a group, please make plans to be there all day. The space can hold up to 400 people.
If you are super into the topic of Data Sharing we highly recommend that you come to the [http://iiw.idcommons.net Internet Identity Workshop] that precedes it.
The Problems, Offerings and Solutions that we put forward at the start of the first DSS is quite informative. Proposed topics and Outcomes are also lay the ground work for these next two events.
If you are interested in sponsoring please contact Laurie Rae at sponsorship@datasharingsummit.com
Feel free to contact me if you have questions.