Mobile Identity Workshop
The Mobile ldentity Workshop, hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, will be held at CNet headquarters (235 Second Street, near Howard) in San Francisco, on January 26, 2007.
The most common technologies by which users interact with the world are mobile. It would not be stretch to say cell phones are the new wallets -- or could be, if users widely adopt user-centric identity technologies. Here are just a few of the questions raised by the Mobile Identity topic:
- How can we move user-centric identity forward in the Mobile space?
- How can we do Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) that meshes with sellers' Customer Relationship Management?
- How can we both protect and employ our anonymity and privacy?
- Where should our identity data live, and be put to selective use, at our personal discretion?
- Is there a business opportunity here for identity brokers, for example?
- What kinds of new and established businesses will step up to facilitate and take advantage of individual identity-based market activities?
- What new and improved roles will be played by carriers and equipment makers? How about new independent mobile players?
- How will Mobile Identity play in developing countries where mobile phones are far more common than PCs, and SMS is used for secure transactions?
- What are some of the specialized applications-in health care, for example?
- How do commercial activities and public policy intersect?
These are the kinds of questions we expect to discuss at the workshop.
The Mobile Identity Workshop will be an "unconference" in the tradition of the Internet Identity Workshops and the Identity Mashup held by the Berkman Center last May. We expect many of the same original thinkers and developers will come to this event as well.
There is no fee for participation, but space is limited. Please go to the Sign-Up Page and add your name, with relevant links, to the list.