Overview
SocialPhysics is an open collaborative project sponsored by Parity Communications.
The goal of SocialPhysics is to give people more control over their digital identities: their online identities, personal information and social relationships. The project, affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School, has two components:
- Open Source software development: Leadership of the Higgins Trust Framework project, a technology sub-project of the Eclipse Foundation. Higgins is a framework that enables users and enterprises to integrate identity, profile, and relationship information across multiple systems.
- Community development: We maintain SocialPhysics.org and Identity Gang.org, a peer community focused on user-centric identity; and lead IdentitySchemas.org, which is creating a web-based catalogue of identity-related ontologies (schemas) and its live implementation: the Community Dictionary Service (CDS). We also host the annual invitation only "Feb 9" Workshop and the SocialPhysics blog. We have a representative on the OSIS steering committee. Our goal is to foster dialogue that can help organize the efforts of many separate groups and individuals who share a common vision of user-empowerment. We also maintain Stuff We Like, a collection of multi-disciplinary issues research focused on the “physics” behind social interactions and the emergence of trust through various kinds of reciprocity and exchange as well as the legal and policy issues.
News
Registration is now open for the 8th Internet Identity Workshop, May 18-20 in Mountain View
Equifax offers "Over-18" Information Card
Upcoming Events
Internet Identity Workshop, May 18-20, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
RSA 2009, April 20-24 in San Francisco, CA
