Identity Woman builds networks of trust, face-to-face and through Internet Identity
Johannes Kuhn interviews Kaliya Hamlin, aka Identity Woman
Kaliya Hamlin, aka Identity Woman is a "freelance evangelist for open standards in user-centric digital identity." In other words, she advocates a "digital identifier," a single identity that a user can use across the entire Internet, to replace separate individual authentication with each website. She is the co-producer and facilitator of Internet Identity Workshop, a series of meetings to discuss Internet Identity, and the main face-to-face gathering of the Identity Commons.
Hamlin has also been involved in various other "unconferences" as a facilitator, and is an expert in their techniques. She helped grow identity community for the past three years. Yet her passion and heart are really with Internet Identity Worshop and how it is changing the web for the better.
Johannes Kuhn: You are involved in various unconferences, such as the Internet Identity Workshop, Mashup Camp, Startup Camp, the Supernova Open Space Workshop and Online Community Camp. Based on these experiences, are crowds really wise?
Kaliya Hamlin: When I hear the word "crowd," I think of being in a public space with random people—they can be intelligent to a certain degree, but I have people specifically drawn to certain things. If you use the wisdom of people that gather for certain intentions, and you make them participate with a conscious intent because you invited them, then you are really using their “wisdom.”
But, to answer the question: Yes, there is deep wisdom in communities, and the best to me is the Identity Commons Community that gathers at Internet Identity Workshop which I lead.
