Identity Online: Shaping governance through digital identifiers
This Internet Governance Project (IGP) workshop focuses on digital identifiers and their role in cyberspace governance. The Internet and proliferation of digital devices have opened up vast new spaces for social interaction, creating many new and unique problems related to identification. Am I talking to a human or a bot? How can we control minors’ access to adult content? What authority anchors trust in a global PKI?
We are developing an analytical framework for identity systems and wish to socialize it at this tutorial. We will apply this framework to identifier regimes for the Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs) for domain names, routing, and websites; the newly developing system of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs); efforts to establish a system of content provenance identifiers (C2PA); and legally-imposed implementations of age verification. We also apply our framework to policy and technical discussions around identifier systems that would allow us to reliably differentiate humans from AI agents in the online environment.
Sessions will include:
1. Identifiers and Governance: An analytical framework with Milton Mueller & Brenden Kuerbis from Georgia Tech and Ryan Galluzzo from NIST
2. PKI and the Governance of Trust on the Web with Johannes Sedlmeir from Uni. of Münster, Cecilia Testart from Georgia Tech, and Karl Grindal from Uni. of New Hampshire
3. Identifiers and Content Control: Age Verification and Content Provenance with Harry Oppenheimer from Georgia Tech, Ilia Murtazashvili from Uni of Pittsburgh (TBC) and Paul Lekas from the Global Public Policy and Government Affairs, Software & Information Industry Association
4. Organizational Identity, Payments and Digital Money with Jeremy Grant from the Better Identity Coalition, Johannes Sedlmeir, Uni of Münster, Karla McKenna from GLEIF, Karim Farhat and Vagisha Srivastava from Georgia Tech
Attendance is free with registration, seating is limited.
This workshop is hosted on "Day 0" of the annual Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC) at American University. For registration to TPRC use this link: https://www.tprcweb.com/registration