Slides from a long session at OSBridge 2015 about identity architecture and sovereignty for electronic democracy. http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/1508

1. & Other
Identity
Architecture
Schemes for
Online
Communities
GOOD ENOUGH VOTER
VERIFICATION

2. WHO AM I?
Participatory Art, Intermedia, Sonic Art, Audio
Engineering
Computer Science Degree from TESC with
Undergraduate research in Software
Engineering for Deliberative Systems
NCDD – Ciral
DevOps Socrata

3. WHAT IS THIS TALK?
Mostly Ideas – but that’s important
Questions instead of answers
Perpetuating a common vocabulary of issues
and ideas

4. Citizens Resources
VIRTUAL DEMOCRACIES – DE JURE STATES

5. INFLUENCE
Alliances
Treaties
Immigration
Constitutions

6. Communities of
conscience
Communities of
interest
Diaspora
WHO ARE THE CITIZENS?

7. Deliberation – parliamentary procedures,
decision making
Voting – if you have representatives or
delegates
Taxation – resources and GNP
Justice – rights for citizens
Relations with other states
POLITICAL TOOLING

8. Traditional
Ideas for
Online
Deliberation
IMPARCH

9. DRAMA IS COMPELLING,
NARRATIVE ENGAGES.
WHAT’S THE PLOT?
THE IMPORTANCE OF
CONFLICT:

10. PRODUCTIVITY:
WE UNDERSTAND THE
ISSUES WHEN WE FIGHT
ABOUT THEM.

11. ADOPTION:
PEOPLE DON’T NEED TO
WIN, THEY NEED TO BE
HEARD.

12. ONLINE & OFFLINE
IDENTIFIERS:
EQUALITY PRACTICES
FROM NCDD

13. Possessions –
clothes, cars,
jewelry, technology
Class – accents,
education, access to
culture
Political Access –
cold hard cash,
influence, votes
OFFLINE

14. Numbers – social
networks and
published
commentary
Technology – Code,
coders, and access to
coders
Design – intentional
branding with digital
images or work
ONLINE

15. DEFINING AN EQUAL SPACE

16. IDENTIFY THE EXISTING CONFLICT MODEL
Research – minutes, videos, published articles,
bloggers
Meet with offline advocates
Visit the adversaries at home (online or offline)
Good faith and bad faith

17. REPOLARIZINGTHECONFLICT

18. Is this a goal-oriented
initiative?
Are we trying to create
a persistent
community?
HOW MUCH TIME HAVE WE GOT?

19. IDENTIFYING VALUES THROUGH
NARRATIVE
Your interest is your expertise
Voter fatigue and time as the critical resource

20. SOLUTION BASED TEAMS
Conversational roles and group dynamics
Refer to committee, delegation, and
consultation
Communication plans

21. Language
and
Deliberation
IDIOLECT, DIALECT, AND
EVOLVED VOCABULARY

22. NAVIGATING CONVERSATION
AUTHENTICALLY AT SCALE
Allowing users to push tags and define the
content with their own vocabulary
Users defining other users – role tags and
popular privileges
Sinking the sins – Jezebel

23. PROMPT TO MERGE
When the tap runs dry
Leveraging the user to identify content
Statistical tools for suggestion

24. ROBERT’S RULES OF ORDER:
TIPS FOR CONTROLLING CONFLICT
Originally designed for scalable groups working in
bad faith
Think of it as a menu, you don’t have to order
everything

25. Time or char count
No direct replies
Limit the number of
times people can
testify
LIMITS OF DEBATE

26. A chairman or
community manager
Shunning
MODERATION

27. External
Identity &
Government
Influence
GOOD ENOUGH VOTER
VERIFICATION

28. GOVERNMENT
OWNS
IDENTITY

29. Citizenry
Contributors
Critics
ACCESS & AUDITIBILITY

30. THE PROBLEM WITH
SINGLE SIGNON

31. WHO OWNS THE DATA?
HOW DO YOU DEFEND THE DATA?
WHAT’S THE BUSINESS PLAN, AND HOW
DOES IT INFLUENCE ACCESS?

32. Self Defining
Social Networks
Financial Information
Geolocation
OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL VERIFICATION

33. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Paypal Address verification
Credit cards and existing verification systems
Strategies in code
The Washington State Voter Database

34. FINANCIAL
INFORMATION AS
IDENTITY IN
NEW YORK
Campaign
Contributions
Not citizens, but
residents and
taxpayers
No risk, it’s purely
advisory

35. ONLINE OFFLINE INITIATIVES
People show up and can download a code
Using devices onsite to upload data

36. Completely
independent
identity &
sovereignty
THE FLASH SLEMKEY

37. PROBLEMS WITH SOVEREIGNTY AND
ONLINE IDENTIFIERS
Someone owns the banks
Someone owns the servers
Someone owns your drivers license
The Internet is bugged
You and your MAC address

38. GIACOMO FERRARI

39. Machine generated
Physical artifact for
peer authentication
Agnostic devices
Disposable
Encrypted
THE SLEMKEY

40. PEER
AUTHENTICATION
Chaining
Superpeers

41. No artifacts –
decryptors and keys
Producing energy
from the decryption
Flash paper encoding
DISPOSABLE
IDENTIFIERS

42. HTTPS://YOUTU.BE/EAFEPGX-9RE?T=28S

43. Post Internet
Micro Server
Architecture &
Distributed
Democracy
IMAGINES

44. BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE:
WHAT IS A CITIZEN?

45. Centralized servers
mean centralized
control
Prone to attack
Civic responsibility
is rare
IS THE STATUS QUO IN SERVER
ARCHITECTURE UNSUITABLE?

46. Need to work with
small cache
Tiered caching for
relevance
Bubble up voting
GEOGRAPHY AND INFLUENCE

47. POST INTERNET COMMUNICATION
Bluetooth
LAN
Things I don’t even know about yet

48. Lightweight
Secure protocols or
anonymity
Technical literacy
Thresholds for
citizen density
REQUIREMENTS

49. CONSEQUENCES
Do-acracy
Risks for distributed systems
Ineffective for long term planning
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness

50. Time is a resource
Nonparticipation is like not paying taxes
Citizenship as a privilege
Peer nations
Third party validation
CONSIDERATIONS
Stock market models

51. Ballot Box Soap Box
MINIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT

52. MUCHAS GRACIAS!
NCDD and ODDI
Jeff Orr
Giacomo Ferrari
Marc Slemko
Andrew Gall (Peaches)
Katie Vedder
The Insane Cloud Posse (DevOps Socrata)
YOU!

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