Please see the prior post and the post before about how we got to discussing this.
We can not forget that the Holocaust was enabled by the IBM corporation and its Hollerith machine. How did this happen? What were these systems? How did they work? and particularly how did the private sector corporation IBM end up working a democratically elected government to do very horrible things to vast portions of its citizenry? These are questions we can not ignore.
In 2006 Stefan Brands gave a talk that made a huge impression on me he warned us and audience of very well meaning technologists that we had to be very careful because we could incrementally create a system that could lead to enabling a police state. It was shocking at the time but after a while the point he was making sunk in and stuck with me. He shared this quote (this slide is from a presentation he gave around the same time)
It is the likability that is the challenge.
We have to have the right and freedom NOT to be required to use our “real name” and birthdate for everything.
This is the defacto linkable identifier that the government is trying to push out over everything so they can link everything they do together.
Stephan proposes another Fair Information Principle.
I will share more of Stephan’s slides because I think they are prescient for today.
Stephan’s slides talk about User-Centrism technology and ideas in digital identity – ideas that have virtually no space or “air time” in the NSTIC discussions because everything has been broken down (and I believe intentionally so) into “security” “standards” “privacy” “trust frameworks” silos that divide up the topic/subject in ways that inhibit really tackling user-centrism or how to build a working system that lives up to the IDEALS that were outlined in the NSTIC document.
I have tried and tried and tried again to speak up in the year and a half before the IDESG and the 2 years since its existence to make space for considering how we actually live up to ideals in the document. Instead we are stuck in a looping process of non-consensus process (if we had consensus I wouldn’t be UN-consensusing on the issues I continue to raise). The IDESG are not taking user-centrism seriously, we are not looking at how people are really going to have their rights protected – how people will use and experience these large enterprise federations.
Yes everyone that is what we are really talking about…Trust Framework is just a code word for Enterprise Federation.
I went to the TSCP conference a big defence/aerospace federation (who was given NSTIC grants to work on Trust Framework Development Guidance) where this lovely lady Iana from Deloitte who worked on the early versions of NSTIC and potential governance outlines for IDESG – she said very very clearly “Trust Frameworks ARE Enterprise Federations” and it was like – ahhh a breath of fresh clear honest air – talking about what we are really talking about.
So back to the Stephan Brands re-fresher slides on user-centric ID so we don’t forget what it is.
Look at these, take them seriously.
Financial System
UnMoney Convergence Topics
Tomorrow is the UnMoney Convergence – an un-conference about all sorts of topics related to money, currency, land, value, reputation, identity.
Here are the topics that people are hoping to discuss:
- Collaborative Consumption and Sharing
- new currencies
- How we can work together to make the movement for community currencies stronger and more synergistic.
- BACE Timebank- open source currency
- What are the best ways we can move from the current debt based, imperial economic system towards a life serving, peaceful, gift economy?
- where are the most inspiring, promising, transition currencies being conceptualized, implemented, how can we work together to help them go viral and allow people to move their money from the old system towards creating a better alternative structure.
- Fostering robust public debate on creating “public money” so that legitimate governments can fund activities which serve people and planet rather than threaten them.
- Deep Wealth and new currencies as an emerging language of value. A Living Systems Model of Wealth
- The role of co-operatives in startup investment.
- how to enable trust agility?
- governance, mobile payments oauth/opentransact
- Designing Intentional Community Economic Systems
- “Co-Creating Community Economics as a Path of the Heart”
- Working together, can we do more than just taking care than our respective unmoney “babies/pets”.
- Going from niches to relevance.
- Emotions in money experiments: dealing with fears
- Crowdfinancing! technical development values based investing
- How are other people designing an ecosystem of currencies to create engines of social action?
- designing currencies as/like games
- social ecosystem design and the use of currencies
- work-share
- micro credit;
- time dollars
- How to manage debt in a web based on distribution of small composable documents.
- Ripple, Metacurrency, actual usage
- What does unmoney tell us about changing relationships between incentives and motivation? How unmoney works as incentive and /or motivation
- What does unmoney tell us about changing relationships between incentives and motivation?
- How unmoney works as incentive and /or motivation
- How do we teach about these alternative forms of currency and economics to potential early adopters?
- Which of these different approaches are approaching reality?
- What are the most pragmatic and useful? Who is making progress on deployment?
- Teaching about money in a Sustainable MBA curriculum.
- What kinds of alternative currencies are being used and thriving in local communities?
- What are all the alternative types of currency – i.e. time banking, etc. Perspective of a young person coming of age and recognizing there are different ways to engage with money, currency and economics.
- What is a sensible balance between social customs and accounting systems in the economics of the near future?
- Currency backing methods
- Mutual credit systems, small-scale democracy
- What is the best example of alternative currency active today?
- What is the best model that needs to be tested?
- Where are the communities of trust willing to test a promising model?
- Friendly Barter – A model of a cashless online payment developed with Tom Greco this last Winter.
- How to share deeper value and wealth together and build an economy based on this sort of wealth.
- How to share deeper value and wealth together and build an economy based on this sort of wealth.
- Particularly interested in alternative and parallel currencies The potential for mobile phones to disrupt in the alternative currency space
UnMoney & NewWallSt
March 11th.
TEDx New Wall St.
re-imagining banking re-built for the Information Age in Silicon Valley on a New Wall Street, as described in the attached press release, and here http://.www.TEDxNewWallStreet.org
April 24th.
UnMoney Convergence
Fosters dialogue and collaboration among the range of interesting emerging ideas around money and exchange systems and to explore connections with issues of land and property tenure. In addition to topics on alternatives to the current currency systems, we invite all who are looking at new ways to look at land tenancy and stewardship, hard currency versus energy, time and food based currencies. We are looking for synergies between folks who see the need for more grounded, materially based economics and those looking at the spiritual, energetic and values based approaches.
Register here!
Website here (might be new in a few days).
Mashup Banking a no go – says Jamie Lewis
This morning’s opening session at Catalyst was great.
Jamie talked about a range of issues including the Inconvenient truths.
That stronger authentication by itself will not make us more secure. All Authentication is dependent on assurance that is a human process and is vulnerable to low tech attacks.
He highlighted the fact that identity management and particularly as it moves into the web is very much a social problem.
The fact that much of the Web 2.0 crowd was going towards simpler protocols was happening but also that these tools would not really work in the context of online banking….
Mashups and Banking just don’t go together.