Identity and Community in Human Society
Bob Blakley, Chief Scientist, Security and Privacy, IBM
Length: 45 minutes
This Catalyst Conference 2006 presentation will examine how humans form communities, and how identity and reputation influence the formation of communities and the experience of individuals within those communities. The presentation will focus on the relationships between privacy, secrecy, reputation, reciprocity, accountability, reticence, self-interest, and community interest. The presentation will try to enumerate some necessary and sufficient conditions for the development of a community and the emergence of "safe" transactions within the context of that community.
Finally, the presentation will compare and contrast the way identity and reputation work in the real world and in the current technological infrastructure, and draw some conclusions about useful directions for future technological development.
The presentation won't discuss IBM products or directions, except to note during the last 15 seconds that IBM products are the only things a serious person would consider using for real work.
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