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Transcript of E Citizen Workshop At Mit V2 Paul
Towards the eCitizenMIT Media Lab
15 January 2009
Paul Trevithick [email protected]
http://incontextblog.com
Why an eCitizen?
Being carbon-based we can’t to connect to the
Internet
So we work through “user agents”
e.g. Web Browser, mail clients, etc.
Problem is…
We don’t know who is using which agent!
So anybody can claim anything
But what’s claimed (e.g. typed into a web form)
can’t be trusted a priori
In other words…
“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”
But what if dogs could vote?
The dog would need a trusted user agent that can send the
verified claim “I am a dog” on its behalf
The dog would need an eDog that can send the “I am a dog” claim
on its behalf
i.e. an eCitizen
[If you’re not quite following along here]
Identity is consequential
How do we protect the dog from reprisal?
Verified Claims + Anonymity
Identity is Contextual
We present different faces in different
contexts
Multiple identities
Around a Common Core managed by
the eDog
Identity is valuable
But so is privacy
We need minimal, selective disclosure
Identity is compositeand socially constructed
It’s what I say about myself AND what others
say about me
Composite identities
Oh, and it’s my eDog
We need Zero lock-in
(e.g. open standards, competitive ecosystem of eDog providers, distributed architecture)
• eCitizen [trusted user agent] • Verified claims • Identifiability AND anonymity • Multiple identities • Composite identities • Core identity managed by agent • Selective, minimal disclosure • Zero lock-in:
– open standards, – competitive ecosystem of eDog providers – open source implementations – distributed architecture
Requirements