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Wednesday August 1st, 10:30am-12:00pm @ [C] Hash Lounge

Panel: Decentralizing Social Networks

The panel will discuss current legal, cultural, and technological challenges faced by decentralized social networks, identity laws, regulations, and precedent that could impede those networks (including the CFAA, copyright law, and the GDPR’s data portability requirement), and propose legal and policy tools to support those decentralized alternatives.

 

Moderator: Ross Schulman , New America's Open Technology Institute , Senior Policy Technologist

Speakers: Cindy Cohn , Electronic Frontier Foundation , Executive Director

Chris Riley , Mozilla , Director of Public Policy

Caroline Sinders , Design Researcher/Artist , Founder, Design Researcher

Kendra Albert , Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic , Clinical Instructional Fellow

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Wednesday, August 1 • 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Talk: The Web of Commons

Looking at the internet as a commons — as a shared resource — allows us to understand both its unlimited possibilities and also what threatens it. Let's create protocols that are easy to use, to develop with, and to extend without asking for permission and without paying or having much money at all. Let's create protocols that are driven by the community, built for the public good, and given away for free. If the company or organization dies, the protocols should still be usable. Any blockchains involved should not be tied to a particular for-profit company. We should not be tying our data to any one coin or blockchain for fear of enclosure. The protocols should be optimizing for science (broadly speaking, as in developing knowledge) and mutual collaboration rather than optimizing for profit. Let us not recreate the problem we are trying to solve.

Speakers: Karissa McKelvey, Software Engineer, Digital Democracy

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Wednesday, August 1 • 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Tech Talk: What is the meaning of "decentralization"?

Taken literally, "decentralization" just means "not centralized", but what are the different ways something can be not centralized? Are there different types or flavors of decentralization that can be meaningfully distinguished?

Speakers:Dominic Tarr, Founder, Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium

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Wednesday, August 1 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Panel: Decentralized Identity

Representatives from different decentralized identity projects will share and discuss insights of what they are building, why it matters, and how it relates to other efforts in the community. The audience will learn about their stories and goals, as well as some basic technical details about their respective solutions.

Speakers: Kaliya , Founder, Identity Woman & Internet Identity Workshop