Event Report | Digital Identity at BarCamp Shanghai

Among the last events for the Geeks on a Plane tour we attended BarCamp Shanghai.

Thought we generally talk about Asian innovation, we thought it was a good opportunity to share ideas on a topic we are passionate about and that has no frontier: Digital Identity. The timing was great as it was the day after Facebook announced personal URLs were being made available, so many in the audience had a clear understanding that they CARED about their digital identity too :-)

Among the ideas we shared:

• Online identity is not one but many and it’s not new to us, as we also have many “offline” identities.
• With multiple or shared accounts and robots thrown into the mix, an online persona can be a strange hybrid of humans and machine.
• Is it that robots are becoming human-like or humans are actually robotic (with the corollary: could you pass a Turing Test and how can you be sure you’re not a Replicant).

This talk was build on a series of earlier posts and research on digital identity. You can read more here.
The presentation is below and on Slideshare. Several other BarCamp talks are presented here.

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