IC Evangelism & Marketing

''Chris Allen and I met in Berkeley on March 3rd 2008 to talk improving the communication about Identity Commons values and relevancy. It was a great hour+ brainstorming and unpacking the purpose and principles, reflecting on IC1 and the new organizational formation.''

This is our first cut at trying to explain it and needs some more word smithing to improve it.

Identity Commons Values
We believe in the dignity of human individual in the context of the digital world (realm).

As digital systems and tools evolve on top of the current technology stack that explicitly move the personal information of people we must to balance these factors:


 * Individual control and convenience & privacy
 * Sharing of information when participating in community
 * support for commercial and non-commercial exchange
 * Interoperability and openness between systems

We work to bring these values into practice by fostering a collaborative a community of individuals, organizations and companies share these values and are working together towards practical technical implementations.

We work to practice what we preach

Share a pragmatic idealism

Have openness and transparency in what we do.