Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Grounds for Identity

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
The author makes the same point I made in passing during my talk in Milan: that personal identity ought to belong to the person and not to a service provider or some other agency. You would think that this would be straightforward and obvious, but it's not, at least, not to industry. The response is to create a digital identity system for the rest of us. "If we create the protocols, APIs and other standards that let customers relate at full power with the companies they choose, consumer becomes an obsolete noun. The companies now in full charge of the identities they confer on each of us will no longer have full control, because now they will have to relate and not just distribute."

Today: 0 Total: 14 [Direct link] [Share]

Image from the website


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Dec 23, 2024 02:51 a.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes