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Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Womanwww.identitywoman.net

co-founder, co-producer & facilitatorof the Internet Identity Workshop

www.internetidentityworkshop.com

steward of Identity Commonswiki.idcommons.net

Freedom To Aggregate & Disaggregate

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Dynamic Tension

individual group

There is a

between the and the


The purpose of Identity Commons is to support, facilitate, and promote the creation of an open

identity layer for the Internet, one that maximizes control, convenience, and privacy for the

individual while encouraging the development of healthy, interoperable communities.


Augmented Social Network:Building Identity and Trust

into the Next Generation Internet

asn.planetwork.net


Could the next generation of online communications strengthen civil society by better connecting people to others with whom they share affinities, so they can more effectively exchange information and self-organize?

YES if you have the freedom to aggregate yourself across systems you can have to emergent social effects like physical bodies provide in physical space.

YES if you can have persistent identifiers for people that they choose how they link across systems.

Like the Web or email, the ASN would be available to anyone. It would become a common part of the Internet infrastructure – a person-centered and group-centered service of the net.


The webkids of San Francisco have been developing the “open stack”


Amongst them this kind of thinking is common:


I figured out how to communicate that anonymity and psydonymity on the web

are really important and provide aninvaluable social good.

I turned to the post cards found on Post Secret. People send post cards to Frank

with secrets they have never told anyone before. He has received 180,000 of them.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ http://www.postsecretcommunity.com/books


http://postsecret.blogspot.com

http://postsecret.blogspot.com

Remember - people need safe space online

to express freely

without“everything” they say

linking back to their “real identity.”


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