Internet Identity Workshop
Mountain View, CA
May 1-3, 2012
The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on “user-centric identity” and trying to solve the technical challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to, purchase from and participate with. We also work on trying to address social and legal issues that arise with these new tools.
"One of the longtime themes of IIW is how identity and personal data intersect."
ASN Initiative
The original white paper
on social networks
Long before anyone had ever heard of social media, Planetwork initiated the conversation around creating a distributed online social network to empower individuals and civil society, and published the ASN White Paper in 2003.
She’s Geeky convenes to inspire women for the future, creating a space to connect women from diverse STEM communities. We work with and promote existing activities and organizations in regions around the country.
Unmoney is a collaborative group convening around emerging solutions for money and exchange systems.
About
About
Planetwork, for over a decade, has convened leading thinkers in diverse fields to explore how creative application of digital tools – visualization technologies, software, social media and the Internet – can open new possibilities for positive global change.
Background
Planetwork NGO, Inc is a San Francisco based network using information technology to address the pressing issues of our time – ecological, social & economic justice, and true democracy.
In 1998, Planetwork was founded in the recognition that the only phenomenon growing as fast as the global ecological crisis was the global communications system, and that these two phenomena must be connected in some meaningful way.
In 2000, Planetwork convened the first international conference on global ecology and information technology, and has continued to host major conferences and gatherings since then.
Long before anyone had ever heard of social media, Planetwork initiated the conversation around creating a distributed online social network to empower individuals and civil society, and published the ASN White Paper in 2003.
Board
Board
Planetwork's board represents the core DNA of what planetwork
is all about: the specific intersection where information technology and global values meet.
Jim Fournier – board chair and co-founder
Jim Fournier – Cofounder, Chairman & President
has three decades experience in sustainable systems design, renewable energy and information technology – a former industrial designer, entrepreneur, software developer and industrial ecologist; left MIT to found an industrial design firm; owned and operated an international consumer goods design and manufacturing company; and developed 3D software as a Geometry Partner with Silicon Graphics. He currently serves on the board of Buckminster Fuller Institute, Channel G Network and Threshold Foundation’s Sustainable Planet Grants Committee.
He recently exited Biochar Engineering Corp after five years as the leading entrepreneur in biochar – a carbon sequestering soil amendment – one of the only effective ways to remove net carbon from the atmosphere. Biochar increases soil fertility and has great promise for mine-land reclamation, the focus of Biochar Solutions Inc., a profitable spin-off where he serves as Chairman. biocharsolutions.com
Currently working on a narrative that situates energy technology within the context of biological evolution; Meta-Nature shows how and why our moment in history may represent a shift point at the dawn of a new phase of climax technology leading toward a plateau of long-term stability. metanature.org
Elizabeth Thompson – board member and co-founder
Elizabeth Thompson - Cofounder & Board Member
Has been a pioneer in the New York and San Francisco art and culture scenes for over 15 years. Her work has centered on the creation, dissemination and synthesis of leading edge ideas, people, and networks of communities across disciplinary boundaries and media platforms including the worlds of information technology, sustainability, global change activism, digital media, art, architecture and design.
Prior to founding Planetwork in 1998, Elizabeth survived a prolonged immersive experience in conceptual art as Director of the internationally acclaimed John Gibson Gallery in New York (1986-1993), and as a founding member of the Obie Award-winning experimental theater company: Cucaracha Warehouse Theatre, where she worked as both a performing artist and creator/producer of their renowned Summer Performance Art series (1987-1995). While with John Gibson Gallery, she designed and produced exhibitions in New York and throughout Europe including Basel, Frankfurt, Cologne, Zurich, Geneva and Paris. Immediately prior to fleeing the hyper post-modern New York art world for California’s utopian highways, she managed the studio of the renowned political artists, Leon Golub and Nancy Spero. (1994-1996).
Heather Newbold Ph.D. – board member and secretary
Author of Life Stories – interviews with 16 of the world’s leading environmental scientists. Heather would never tell you, but she is known and highly respected by a wide circle of the leading luminaries of our time.
Brad deGraf – board member and treasurer
Brad is the Founder of the Venture Collective, a 501(c)3 venture fund focused on systemic social change solutions. He is also Director of the Animation Archive for the Internet Archive, as well as investment analyst for digital media for the International Finance Corporation (venture subsidiary of the World Bank), and senior analyst for Jon Peddie Research. Called by Wired "an icon of 3D Animation," and by Animation Magazine as one of the "people to watch in 2001," Brad deGraf, has been a leader in computer animation in the entertainment industry since 1982, particularly in the areas of realtime characters, ride films, and the Web.
From 1992 through 1994 he was director of digital media at Colossal Pictures, which he and his partners spun off to create Protozoa (aka Dotcomix) for which he has served as Chairman, CEO, and Chief Creative Officer.
Credits include; Moxy, emcee for the Cartoon Network, the first virtual character for television; Floops, the first Web episodic cartoon; Peter Gabriel's Grammy award- winning video, Steam; Duke2000.com, a attempt with Garry Trudeau to get his Ambassador Duke character elected president; "The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera", the first computer- generated ride film; "The Last Starfighter", "2010", "Jetsons: the Movie", "Robocop 2", and many others.
He has a BA in Math from UC San Diego, and studied architecture at Princeton University and sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Team
Planetwork has operated for years as a very lean organization with only one part-time paid staff person and a great deal of sweat, passion and commitment from our largely volunteer staff. As the organization ramps up to take on the N2N Initiative more people are stepping up and taking on new roles.
Kaliya Hamlin – network director
Has been an active member of the Planetwork community for five years with her natural networking and community bridge-building capacity.
In 2003 Identity Commons hired Kaliya to evangelize on its behalf in multiple communities, partly because she was doing it already. Kaliya's persona as Identity Woman emerged in January 2004 as she continued to participate in the larger Identity 2.0 and "meta identity system" discussions. Currently, she works on behalf of the whole identity ecosystem. She co-produces and facilitates the Internet Identity Workshop.
She also designs and facilitates unconferences, participant driven conferences without pre-planned agendas, for professional technical communities. She has developed a reputation for designing extremely high quality interactive events that support communities getting things done together.
Kaliya came to the Bay Area from Vancouver, Canada to study at UC Berkeley, where she graduated with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Political Economy and Human Rights. She also minored in Demography and Environmental Science Policy Management. Throughout college Kaliya played on the Canadian National Water Polo Team and won a Gold Medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. Her "inner geek" roots can be traced to winning the regional science fair and making it to the Canada Wide Science Fair in grades 7 and 9.
Lee Buric – creative director
Is an American filmmaker and video journalist whose work explores the discourse between art, theory, and activism, she has worked extensively as a television producer for several major US independent media outlets, notably Free Speech TV, the first independent, national progressive television network in the US, and Democracy Now, a digital media pioneer and the largest community media collaboration in the US. An independent media veteran and a student of experimental film, her work employs cinema-verite and non-narrative elements within the documentary genre. She is also a creative consultant in integrated social media and UI/UX.
Anee Schneeman – general manager
Anee Schneeman has taken on a steadily expanding role, keeping the books and serving as general admin support for a growing number of fiscally sponsored projects, as well as Planetwork’s own internal core programs.
Michael Mell – webmaster
Mike Mell designed and built web sites for Fortune 500 companies, artists, lawyers, Buddhists and many shades between. He prefers to work in the Open Source LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python). Michael is also involved in developing applications for i-names.
Mike Vincenty – sys admin
Mike Vincenty has served from the founding of Planetwork as our systems administrator, both online and at our major conferences. Mike is working full time at blurb.com, a creative publishing company for print-on-demand books, but continues to find time to keep our servers running.
Alden Bevington – lead designer
Alden has been involved in the core strategy, communications, and branding for dozens of luminary organizations and ahead of the wave projects around the globe. When not participating in the discussion (and often at the same time on a laptop), he faithfully serves those same projects as a production monkey in the role that has the easy label: designer. Which he generally has lots of fun doing.
He is the publisher of Pioneer Imprints, is the founder of the entrepreneurial midwife agency, Culture Generator, and is the co-creator of the germinal Open Collaboration Encyclopedia.
Troy Lush –
Fiscal Projects
Fiscal Projects
Planetwork acts as a fiscal sponsor for a small group of
non-profit projects that make a big difference. Our vision
and mission are furthered through our support of projects
which share our value set; in the space where the internet,
the technospehere, ecology, and the intelligent progression of
consciousness meet.
Hypothes.is
An open-source, community-moderated, distributed platform for sentence-level annotation of the Web. If wherever we encountered new information, sentence by sentence, frame by frame, we could easily know the best thinking on it.
If we had confidence that this represented the combined wisdom of the most informed people--not as anointed by editors, but as weighed over time by our peers, objectively, statistically and transparently.If this created a powerful incentive for people to ensure that their works met a higher standard, and made it perceptibly harder to spread information that didn't meet that standard.
These goals are possible with today's technologies.
They are the objectives of hypothes.is.
The Internet, peer-reviewed.
Evolver Social Movement
Evolver is a social network for conscious collaboration. It provides a platform for individuals, communities, and organizations to discover and share the new tools, initiatives, and ideas that will improve our lives and change the world.
Evolver.net brings together a global community that shares similar interests and values. It provides a platform that helps us find the resources, peers, news and information that makes a difference. Evolver.net is collaboratively filtered and professionally curated so that the best material gets disseminated widely.
One Becoming One
The VISION | of ONE Becoming ONE begins with connecting the individuals, communities, and organizations that exemplify a world whose foundational principles are love, collaboration, and social healing, and watching those principles in action spread through all sectors of business, society, and civic engagement. ONE Becoming ONE recognizes that the world is in a pivotal moment and that old systems are crumbling, while the new ones have not fully manifested. ONE Becoming ONE is a structural and technological midwife to the new systems, paradigms, and ways of being. We understand that birthing whole systems takes courage, compassion, precision, and love in action. We are committed to combining our resources, wisdom, skills and knowledge base to implement with acuity the most significant system of sharing and response ever seen on our planet. Thus we envision a global “Life Star” system that instantly mobilizes information and circuitry necessary for collaborative response in real-time.
The HISTORY | ONE Becoming ONE was founded in 2011 by Seattle Firefighter Erik Lawyer who recognized that current systematic response systems as seen in the Emergency Services and even those in place in the Military can be used for high-precision global mobilization, connection, and response for the purpose of healing, love, and open source collaboration. The same structures that have powered up some of our most effective systems-for better or worse-can now be overlaid for global transformation. Lawyer acts as a bridge-builder in that he represents a pillar of society exemplifying some of the most highly refined and trained. His inside view and understanding plus his ability to connect with a much wider circle to communicate love, compassion, and viable actions for change puts him right where we need him to be: as a spokesperson for ONE Becoming ONE and its ongoing efforts.
Climate Vision
Climate of Denial film synopsis
Reuters reports that concerns over climate change have risen only slightly since 2009, as consumers around the world worry more about issues immediately impacting their daily lives.
Climate of Denial features interviews with leading climate visionaries and thinkers who tell of their life's work and what inspires their vision, and the struggle with our collective denial of the magnitude of the problem. Their personal stories and insights narrate of state-of-the-art imaging of precipitous glacial ice melt and atmospheric temperature changes that graphically illustrate well-studied but poorly understood phenomenon. Through the use of unconventional editing techniques, the film seeks to pull away the veil of denial by contextualizing the hard science with the psychological forces that compel us to look away.
The film opens with the words of Paul Crutzen, the Dutch atmospheric chemist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his research on the hole in the Earth's ozone layer, and who first proposed the concept of "nuclear winter." When asked how he would explain global warming to his grandchildren, his poignant reply, "I haven't told them yet... I want them to remain children awhile longer..." speaks to our collective innocence and uncertainty in the face of a frightening unknown.
As humanity has never faced such a global game changer in our evolutionary history, there may be no mechanism within the collective psyche to comprehend the magnitude of the crisis. As Hollywood has placed global warming within the realm of science fiction, too frightening and abstract to truly consider, how will we find the courage to face the coming storm?
With Paul Crutzen, John Latham, Steven Salter and Jim Fournier. Other interviews under consideration include Jim Hansen, George Lakoff, and other leading thinkers and climate experts whose work may hold the keys to our future.
Lee Buric
Producer/Director
PR for the Planet
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
www.planetwork.net
December 10, 2010
UNFCCC COP 16
Cancun Mexico
Studies now conclusively show the imminent danger of ocean collapse due to increased ocean acidity as a result of CO2 emissions.
At the recent UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, the highly respected Swiss NGO, the International Union for Conservation of Nature[1], convened a panel of marine biologists to present its latest findings on the danger of the collapse of ocean life due to increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
New scientific consensus finds us now already at or above the CO2 level that could cause the collapse of ocean marine ecosystems within 50 years. This new information implies that even the most aggressive CO2 reduction targets currently under discussion would not avert the collapse of ocean life.
“Climate change may be all over the headlines, but it has an evil twin, caused by the same invisible gas, carbon dioxide, with more measurable, rapid and seemingly unstoppable effects," says Dan Laffoley, Marine Vice Chair of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas. “By answering the main questions people have about ocean acidification, we intend to break through the ignorance and confusion that exist, so everyone is clearer on what is happening and why this is a matter of the highest global priority."
To reverse the phenomenon and stabilize our oceans, CO2 emissions will need to be curtailed far more rapidly than previously understood, and large amounts of CO2 will need to be removed from the atmosphere, in order to return it to pre-1980 levels of 350 ppm or less. Current climate negotiations are still grappling with CO2 levels and associated temperature increases that far exceed what the scientific data suggests are sustainable.
“As the risk of crashing the food web in the oceans is now emerging as the most immediate danger among all global warming related phenomena, we must use this new information to cut through the well-funded denial and move forward together,” says Jim Fournier, Founder of Planetwork and CEO of Biochar Engineering Corp. “In order to protect our children and defend life as we know it, we will need to transform our society as completely and rapidly as the mobilization for WWII. Humanity now faces our most serious challenge; we will either rise to it or risk crashing the global ecosystem.”
[1] http://www.iucn.org
Global Cooling
Global Cooling is an informal group of collaborating scientists from the US and UK examining Cloud Brightening; an idea for creating a controlled global cooling to balance global warming resulting from burning fossil fuel. This group is organized by Dr John Latham, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, who first published the idea, which involves seeding marine clouds to increase their reflectivity.
Unmoney
Unmoney
Event page here
Fosters dialogue and collaboration among the range of interesting emerging ideas around money and exchange systems and to explore connections with issues of land and property tenure. In addition to topics on alternatives to the current currency systems, we invite all who are looking at new ways to look at land tenancy and stewardship, hard currency versus energy, time and food based currencies. We are looking for synergies between folks who see the need for more grounded, materially based economics and those looking at the spiritual, energetic and values based approaches.
Network 2 Network
N2N
Creating a Truly Distributed Network for
Communities of Purpose, place and practice, supporting:
Multiple Autonomous Individuals
Multiple Autonomous Institutions
Multiple Autonomous Networks
Allied through a User Centric Identity
Archives
Planetwork has been convening and thinking beyond the horizon for over a decade. Our archives contain the traces of conversations that built the web as we know it, and that foresaw the web as the
tool by which civil society would be able to gain leverage in the issues which affect the well-being of life, and the ecological integrity of our planet. Check out the archives here...