The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is proud
to
present Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. The symposium
will be
held on December 8, 2007 at Yale Law School in New Haven,
CT.
This event will bring together representatives from
industry,
government, and academia to explore themes in online
reputation,
community-mediated information production, and their
implications for
democracy and innovation. The symposium is made possible by
the
generous support of the Microsoft Corporation.
A distinguished group of experts will map out the terrain of
reputation economies in four panels: (1) Making Your Name
Online; (2)
Privacy and Reputation Protection; (3) Reputation and
Information
Quality; and (4) Ownership of Cyber-Reputation. See below
for more
detail on each panel; a current list of confirmed speakers
is
available at the conference website.
Online registration is available now at: https://wems.worldtek.com/
RepEcon. There is a $95 registration fee, which includes
lunch. Yale
students and faculty and members of the press may attend for
free.
For more information, see: http://isp.law.ya
le.edu/reputation.
SYMPOSIUM ON REPUTATION ECONOMIES IN CYBERSPACE
Panel I: Making Your Name Online
Moderator: Jack Balkin - Director, Information Society
Project and
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First
Amendment, Yale
Law School
Panelists:
Michel Bauwens - Founder, The Foundation for P2P
Alternatives
Rishab A. Ghosh - Senior Researcher, United Nations
University -MERIT
Auren Hofman - CEO, Rapleaf
Hassan Masum - Senior Research Co-ordinator,
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre
for Global Health
Beth Noveck - Professor of Law and Director, Institute for
Information Law and Policy, New York Law School
This panel will discuss the shifts in the reputation economy
that we
are witnessing, largely the transition from accreditation to
participatory, community-based modes of reputation
management. Some
of the questions the panel will address include:
What are the new norms for cyber-reputation?
How do these depart from offline models?
How can reputation in one online system be transported to
another?
How do SNS and reputation connect?
How do you bootstrap and cash out?
Panel II: Privacy and Reputational Protection
Moderator: Michael Zimmer - Microsoft Resident Fellow,
Information
Society Project and Post-Doctoral Associate, Yale Law
School
Panelists:
Alessandro Acquisti - Assistant Professor of Information
Technology
and Public Policy, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy
and
Management, Carnegie Mellon University
Danielle Citron - Assistant Professor of Law, University of
Maryland
School of Law
William McGeveran - Associate Professor, University of
Minnesota Law
School
Dan Solove - Associate Professor, George Washington
University Law
School
Jonathan Zittrain - Professor of Internet Governance and
Regulation,
Oxford University; Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial
Legal
Studies, Harvard Law School
Cyber-reputation management is based on transactions in
information
that is often sensitive and is always contextual. This
brings up
many questions about the need to protect one's privacy and
reputation
within and outside this system.
Some of the questions the panel will address:
How is participation in cyber-reputation systems related to
defamation and free speech?
What happens when cyber-reputation spills over into offline
activities and relationships like the political process, job
applications, or school admissions?
What happens when your second life meets your first?
Requiring divulgence of real name or other personal data. Is
opting
out possible?
Pending legislation on S495 - data security and privacy
Panel III: Reputational Quality and Information Quality
Moderator: Laura Forlano - Visiting Fellow, Information
Society Project
Panelists:
Urs Gasser - Associate Professor of Law, University of St.
Gallen
Ashish Goel - Associate Professor, Management Science and
Engineering
and Computer Science, Stanford University
Darko Kirovski - Senior Researcher, Microsoft Corporation
Mari Kuraishi - President, Global Giving Foundation
Vipul Ved Prakash - Founder, Cloudmark
Evidently, unlike traditional reputation mechanisms that
relied on
small group acquaintances and formal accreditation
mechanisms, the
cyber-reputation economy is heavily mediated by technology.
This
raises the risk of breaking the delicate checks and balances
that are
necessary for the system to ensure quality of both the
informational
outcomes and the participants' reputation. This panel will
try to
highlight the connections between the way the new systems
are built,
and the outcome they produce.
Some of the questions the panel will address:
How can we assure quality in online reputation economies?
What is the connections between the system design and the
quality
information?
How good are the alternative accreditation mechanisms and
how easy
are they to hijack?
How can employment discrimination law adapt to the realities
of
online reputation?
Panel IV: Ownership of Cyber-Reputation
Moderator: Eddan Katz - Executive Director, Information
Society
Project and Lecturer-in-Law and Associate Research Scholar,
Yale Law
School
Panelists:
John Clippinger - Senior Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet
&
Society, Harvard Law School
Eric Goldman - Assistant Professor and Director, High Tech
Law
Institute, Santa Clara University School of Law faculty
Bob Sutor - Vice President Open Source and Standards, IBM
Corporation
Mozelle Thompson - Thompson Strategic Consulting; (former
FTC
Commissioner)
Rebecca Tushnet - Professor, Georgetown University Law
Center
The data and information that are collected in online
reputation
systems are both valuable and powerful. The ability to
control this
information, store it, process it, access it, and transport
it are
crucial to the maintenance of the reputation economy. This
panel will
address the important set of questions that concern the
ownership of
this information.
Some questions the panel will address:
Who owns one's online reputation? Who owns the metadata?
How portable is online reputation? Should it be
transportable from
one system to another?
How is reputation connected to the interoperability
question? Should
we have international standards governing reputation?
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