[Web4lib] NEASIST Program, 20 April 2006 - Identity Management in a Web 2.0 World

[Caryn Anderson]

Apologies for cross-postings.

This program from the New England chapter of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology (NEASIS&T) may be of interest.

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Who Am I and How Do You Know For Sure?
Identity Management in a Web 2.0 World

Thursday, 20 April 2006, 8:30am-3:30pm
Bartos Theater, Building E-15, 20 Ames Street, MIT, Cambridge, MA

* How many times a day do you enter usernames and passwords?
* How do you keep track of them all?
* How often do you transfer private personal, financial or company
data over the web?
* How secure do you feel about it?
* How well does your organization protect the private information of
your consumers?
* How much of your identity is "out there" for the taking?
* How many times do you ask your consumers to identify themselves each
time they use your services?

Do you wish there was a better way?

So do Ben Adida, Dick Hardt and Paul Trevithick – and they’re working
on it. Join the New England chapter of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology (NEASIS&T) for an invigorating day
with three leading innovators at the forefront of identity and
security in today’s giddy environment of promiscuous information
exchange over the Web. You will learn what the technological,
practical and social challenges are for individuals and organizations
in managing logins and the transfer of sensitive data over the web.
You will get a sense of the range of initiatives exploring solutions
and what the barriers are. You will hear from an academic studying
cryptography and the semantic web as they apply to public policy
issues like voting and health records (Adida). You will hear from a
vendor developing solutions for organizations and individuals
(Hardt). And you will hear about efforts to develop open source
technology to give users more control over their online identity,
profile and relationship information (Trevithick).

NEASIS&T is pleased to present another timely program of leading
speakers and panel discussion. Join us!

* Ben Adida
- PhD Candidate, MIT (http://ben.adida.net/)
- Affiliate, The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
Law School (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/ben_adida)
- Author, “Benlog” (http://benlog.com/)

* Dick Hardt
- Founder and CEO, Sxip Identity (http://www.sxip.com/)
- Author, “Blame Canada” (http://blame.ca/dick/)

* Paul Trevithick
- Co-Founder & CEO, Parity Communications (http://parityinc.net/),
- Co-Founder, Social Physics (http://socialphysics.org/)
- Technical Project Lead of Higgins (http://eclipse.org/higgins)

$60 ASIST Members - $80 Non-Members - $40 Student/Retiree/Between Jobs

Lunch Included - Register by 14 April 2006 via
http://www.neasist.org/pc/programs/20060420.html

Questions?: E-mail Caryn Anderson (caryn.anderson at simmons.edu)


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Caryn Anderson
Program Coordinator
PhD in Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions
GSLIS, Simmons College
300 The Fenway, P-204E
Boston, MA  02115
caryn.anderson at simmons.edu
617.521.2829
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/phdmlip/



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