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Philip Sheldrake

Philip Sheldrake

DWeb | Web3 | Systems thinking | Sociotechnology | Generative identity | Unnamed Labs | Open Farming

Sociotechnologist, professional engineer, researcher and consultant dedicated to the ethical, equitable and open application of decentralized technologies in complex systems.

Engaged in the design and development of the decentralized web (dweb) since 2014, including web3, underpinned by experience in digital innovation, process engineering, systems thinking and organisational design.

Expertise in the digitalization of identity, privacy by design, and the design and governance of decentralized social networking (dsocial) and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO).

Interested in systems that attract the attention of communities such as Ethereum, the Web3 Foundation, Holochain, DWeb Camp, the Bateson Institute, The Stockholm Resilience Centre, Kernel, RadicalxChange, Next Nature Network, and the Liminal Web.

Long-standing collaborator and participant in all things internet and web: chair of events featuring Vint Cerf and Sir Tim Berners-Lee; co-founder of a decentralized cooperative; convener of the UK’s first IoT conference; co-founder of one of the first open data projects in the UK; official champion of IPv6; advisor to Mozilla on the European launch of Firefox; CEO of pioneering P2P payments service in the UK; author of ‘The Business of Influence’ (2011) published by Wiley.

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An 18th Century painting depicting the citizens of Troy pushing and pulling the horse into their city.
Reusable KYC: when a dedication to decentralization self-sabotages
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Holochain and generative identity
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Once more with meaning — a review of a draft industry paper on human-centric digital identity
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Live or DIE — a review of a draft industry paper on the harms of SSI
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Web3’s future #fail is avoidable
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Human identity: the number one challenge in computer science
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We need to talk about the social graph
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The past, present, and possible future of software architecture
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Self-Sovereign Identity — the book, the dystopia
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Two Concepts of Liberty and Infinite Permutations of Moderating
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Towards a shared understanding of ‘digital identity’ — reflecting on conversations with Doc Searls and Drummond Reed
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Community moderating — bringing our best
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How the separation and unseparation of concerns contribute to SSI’s dystopian promise
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The deficiency of the “Generative Self-Sovereign Internet”
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Control, agency and complexity — Phil Windley and Philip Sheldrake in conversation
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The dystopia of self-sovereign identity (SSI)
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The Number 1 Challenge for Humanity – Cooperating at Scale (part 2 of 2)
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The Number 1 Challenge for Humanity – Cooperating at Scale (part 1 of 2)
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A call for interdisciplinarity — generative identity and the Internet Identity Workshop
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Generative identity — beyond self-sovereignty
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Verifying identity as a social intersection
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The interpersonal data at the heart of all human digital systems, including markets
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The misleading name, metaphor defiance, and awesome potential of “personal data” — part 3 of 3
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The misleading name, metaphor defiance, and awesome potential of “personal data” — part 2 of 3
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The misleading name, metaphor defiance, and awesome potential of “personal data”
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Internetome — trying to make sense of it all
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The meaning of business
Jay O'Connor

Jay O’Connor

Stakeholder Governance and Engagement | Change Management | Corporate Planning and Communications

Member of the International Advisory Board of the Open University’s Faculty of Business and Law, the Institute of Directors (IoD) Centre for Corporate Governance Working Group on Stakeholder Governance, and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Co-author of From Intention to Action, a discussion paper on what makes boards effective in how they govern in the interests of stakeholders (IoD).

Part-time doctoral researcher at UCL’s School of Public Policy and Department of Political Science on modern state governance and democratic accountability.

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IoD From Intention to Action April 2021
IoD Board Effectiveness and Stakeholder Governance Working Group: From Intention to Action
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