Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Reminder Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - Doc Searls: Self-Sovereignty and Independence Online

[Jerry Feldman]

When: November 18, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Self-Sovereignty and Independence Online
Moderator: Doc Searls

Online Location: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/zgmiVhu9Ogc


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.
Doc Searls Weblog: http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/

About Doc Searls: https://www.searls.com/


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