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Interpersonal data

A collection of 10 posts

Let

The Internet Identity Workshop convened its 31st biannual gathering this week. Being a Zoom-based affair (under the pandemic circumstances), I was able to 'tune in' from London for several sessions. Thanks to Doc Searls, Joyce Searls, and Drummond Reed for the invitation to join in and specifically to

A call for interdisciplinarity — generative identity and the Internet Identity Workshop

A call for interdisciplinarity — generative identity and the Internet Identity Workshop

The post Generative identity — beyond self-sovereignty (2nd September) has spawned a lot of conversation in private channels and on the ProjectVRM Harvard mailing list ... some 15,000 words in exchanges with more than a dozen people active in ‘digital identity’. This post is dedicated to the most salient parts by

Generative identity — beyond self-sovereignty

Generative identity — beyond self-sovereignty

With thanks to those who commented on draft versions: Matthew Schutte, Jonathan Donner, Martin Etzrodt, Andrei Sambra, Mihai Alisie. Hero image generated from the original image by Ryan Alexander. I'm going to outline three ways to think about digital identity to help move the conversation forward in line

Verifying identity as a social intersection

Verifying identity as a social intersection

Co-author of Radical Markets Glen Weyl invited me to review Verifying Identity as a Social Intersection, co-authored with his colleague at Microsoft, Dr. Nicole Immorlica, and Stanford University's Professor Matthew Jackson. The topic is so-called digital identity, a term that could be mistaken for how personal and group

SSI Meetup webinar — on interpersonal data, identity, and collective minds

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SSI Meetup webinar — on interpersonal data, identity, and collective minds

In an insightful introduction to self-sovereign identity (SSI) from 2016, Christopher Allen notes that online identity has progressed through four broad stages: 1. Centralized identity — administrative control by a single authority or hierarchy 2. Federated identity — administrative control by multiple, federated authorities 3. User-centric identity — individual or administrative control across

At RadicalxChange in Detroit

Interpersonal data

At RadicalxChange in Detroit

The building in this photo has a fascinating history. The A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education in Detroit accommodates the College for Creative Studies and Shinola, and for this weekend, the RadicalxChange conference — which is why I'm here. Formerly owned by General Motors and known then as

The interpersonal data at the heart of all human digital systems, including markets

Interpersonal data

The interpersonal data at the heart of all human digital systems, including markets

In light of the Radical Markets book chapter entitled Data as Labor, its co-author Glen Weyl invited me to write this post for the RadicalxChange blog, published 9 Feb 2019. The RadicalxChange mission dedicates the community to "using dramatically expanded competitive, free and open market mechanisms to reduce inequality,

The misleading name, metaphor defiance, and awesome potential of "personal data" — part 3 of 3

Interpersonal data

The misleading name, metaphor defiance, and awesome potential of "personal data" — part 3 of 3

In the first post of this series I asserted that data is data. In other words, it's not like anything else. The second post explored and dismissed conceptualizations of data-as-property and data-as-labour. This, the last post in this series, explores data-as-reputation, data-as-public-good, and data-as-me, and then points to

The misleading name, metaphor defiance, and awesome potential of "personal data" — part 2 of 3

Interpersonal data

The misleading name, metaphor defiance, and awesome potential of "personal data" — part 2 of 3

In the preceding post I proposed that reframing personal data as interpersonal data is much more appropriate, more useful, more valuable. I also asserted that data is data — i.e. not like anything else. To support these points, this post explores and dismisses the dominant conceptualisation of personal data as

The misleading name, metaphor defiance, and awesome potential of "personal data"

Interpersonal data

The misleading name, metaphor defiance, and awesome potential of "personal data"

We have a problem and an opportunity currently labelled "personal data". The opportunity encompasses nothing less than a complete redesign of our lives and societies and our collective ability to grapple with complex adaptive systems including super-wicked problems — but this will remain elusive until we've wrestled