Berkman Center Events & Webcasts

The Berkman Center’s Law Lab held a talk yesterday at the Tuesday Luncheon series to discuss the project’s research tracks and current direction. David Weinberger liveblogged the session:

The Law Lab is building an “open governance platform.” First, they’re building an identity system (”persistent, contextual, mobile, pseudo-anonymous”). “You can’t have trusted systems without some form of identity authentication.” 2. Reputation systems. 3. Dispute resolution. 4. Credit assignment (”multiple, independent, convertible currencies”). 5. Authentication of claims about attributes such as age and income. 6. Balloting and voting. 7. Metadata analysis (”transparency, tracking, behavioral anaysis”). 8. Enforcement.

Video from the talk is posted here. And if you haven’t seen it already, I’d recommend watching this intro to the Law Lab on YouTube:

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