Resume of Dr. John Henry Clippinger,

   John Henry Clippinger is co-founder and Executive Director of ID³(Institute for Innovation & Data Driven Design), a 501 C(3)  non profit organization (idcubed.org)  formed to  develop and field test an open source software trust frameworks (Open Mustard Seed) for data-driven services, infrastructures, and enterprises. He is also a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Group and a Distinquished Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future, Steering Committee and Advisory Board of Blockchain Ecosystem Network (BECON) , and former Chairman of the ITU Working Group on Identity and Authentication.  Previously, Dr. Clippinger was founder and Co-Director of The Law Lab (www.lawlab.org) at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. He was also a Senior Fellow at the Berkman Center where co-founded the Project Higgins, an open source, and identity framework (www.eclipse.org/higgins) to give users control over their personal information.

Dr. Clippinger is co-editor with David Bollier, of From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond: The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in a Digital Society, 2014, and is the author of A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity (Perseus, Public Affairs, 2007, and The Biology of Business, Natural Laws of Enterprise Josey Bass, 1998 ). Previously, he was Director of Intellectual Capital, Coopers & Lybrand and the founder of four artificial intelligence software companies.  He  consults with companies, foundations, NGOs, and government agencies on technology, policy and business strategy issues related to privacy, trust frameworks and  social networks.

John is the author of several recent articles, white papers,  and chapters on topics related to identity, trust frameworks and   governance: Towards a Post Industrial Networked Democracy; A Decentralized Data Commons for The Exchange of Tokens of Trust and Value, (2016)A New Kind of Social Ordering,: Self-Sovereignty , Autonomous Trust and P2p Parity, 2015. ID3;  With David Bollier, A Renaissance of the Commons: How the New Sciences and Internet are Framing a New Global Identity and Order, chapter in Code: Collaboration,Ownership and the Digital Economy Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.2009;  Social Physics, Designing New Social Institutions, The Center for Natural and Social Science, Chinese Academy of Science, Bejing China, September; 2007 ;On Protecting One’s Good Name: An Inquiry into Effective Reputation and Rating Systems, in Hassan Massum, Mark Tovey, editors, Reputation Society, MIT Press;  Digital Innovation in Governance: New Rules for Sharing and Protecting Private Information, in Kauffman Task Force on Law, Innovation, and Growth, Rules for Growth; Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform, p. 381-407, 2011, Marion Kauffman Foundation.