{"id":194,"date":"2007-01-26T20:18:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2007\/01\/26\/the-mobile-identity-challenge-some-ob"},"modified":"2007-01-26T20:53:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T00:53:19","slug":"the-mobile-identity-challenge-some-observations-from-the-sfo-mid-wo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2007\/01\/26\/the-mobile-identity-challenge-some-observations-from-the-sfo-mid-wo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mobile Identity Challenge – Some Observations from the SFO mID-Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m currently in wonderful San Francisco, attending the Berkman Center\u2019s Mobile Identity workshop<\/a> \u2013 a so-called \u201cunconference\u201d<\/a> — led by my colleagues Doc Searls<\/a>, Mary Rundle<\/a>, and John Clippinger<\/a>. We\u2019ve had very interesting discussions so far, covering various topics<\/a> ranging from Vendor Relationship Management<\/a> to mobile identity in developing countries.<\/p>\n

In the context of digital identity in general and user-centric identity management systems in particular, I\u2019m especially interested the question as to what extent the issues related to mobile ID are distinct from the issues we\u2019ve been exploring<\/a> in the browser-based and traditionally wired desktop-environment. Here\u2019s my initial take on it:<\/p>\n

Although mobile identity can be best understood as part of the generic concept of digital identity and despite the fact that identity as such has some degrees of mobility by definition, I would argue that mobile (digital) identity has certain characteristics that might (or should) have an impact on the ways we frame and address the identity challenges in this increasingly important part of the digitally networked environment. I would argue that the characteristics, by and large, may be mapped onto four layers.<\/p>\n