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Mon, 06/10/2019

Blockchain Based LLC

BBLLC-Linked DAO Demo

 

Wed, 06/22/2016
Wed, 06/08/2016

2015-09-09 UPDATE: Today, MIT/law pubished an overview of the goals, high level success criteria and plan for an autumn sprint in the our LegalEntity GitHub organization here.

2016-06-28...

Mon, 05/30/2016

A Call To Hacktion

 

What if the event hosts on the list compiled by Robert Richards (at  https://legalinformatics.wordpress.com/upcoming-conferences) could publish and update their...

Fri, 05/20/2016

Digital Identities, Contracts and Blockchains Conference

  • Host: Professor Sandy Pentland, MIT Connection Science
  • Location: MIT Media Lab
  • Co-Organizers: Thomas Hardjono, MIT Connection ScienceJames Hazard, CommonAccord
  • Event Information:

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Wed, 05/04/2016

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Wed, 04/20/2016

We'll have materials posted here to look at during Media Ventures class Thursday, April 21, 2016

 

Class Notes:

https://github.com/HumanDynamics/law.MIT.edu/tree/master/Purpose

Current...

Thu, 04/07/2016

 

The W3C is convening the first "Blockchains and the Web" workshop at the MIT Media Lab on June 29+30, 2016.  This workshop will explore issue and options for developing...

Wed, 04/06/2016

Algorithmic law,  legal aspects of blockchain enabled automation and related topics are hot. Based on the surge of links coming our way, the topic is getting even hotter.  Here is our informal, running listing of significant events, publications and other relevant links.

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Wed, 03/09/2016

Through the months of April and May, 2016, the MIT Human Dynamics Lab will be actively exploring the topic: Business, Law and Social Technologies.  Stay tuned for ways you can contribute ideas or key questions and for the results of our research, development and engagement activities on this...

Fri, 03/04/2016
Mon, 02/08/2016

#IEEEKC: Kansas City Workshop 

 

Share Your Ideas and Other Content

 

Mon, 02/08/2016
Sun, 01/10/2016

Open Innovation Network Hack Gallery Projects

 

Sun, 10/25/2015

For the Cities and Law Schools Consortium.  

Tue, 10/06/2015

Computable_Law Invited to Present at #Tech4Democracy:

Friends  Melissa D'Anello and Tim Burke from the Harvard Kennedy School visited the MIT Media Lab to join the Computable_Law discussion group and invite the...

Fri, 09/18/2015

UPDATE: The following event with Dutch based fashiontech designer and innovator Anouk Wipprecht has been postponed due to changes with Anouk's travel plans.  We hope to reschedule later this...

Thu, 09/17/2015

The eMagnaCarta.org project is a collaboration with Brooklyn Law School exploring use of online participatory on a Citizens’ Charter for Cyberspace. The eMagnaCarta.org site debuted at and used to help facilitate the panel discussion: ...

Thu, 06/18/2015

Today at the annual conference on Computer Aided Legal Instruction a live hangout session anchored the launch of an online participatory process to discuss, design and develop the first CALI hackathon!  The initial open dialog process is now active and accessible...

Tue, 04/28/2015

Today at the Law Schools, Technology, & Access to Law and Justice conference at the Kauffman Center, organized by the UMKC Law School, Kansas City, Missouri's Rick Usher and MIT's Dazza Greenwood discussed a planned open forum on issues and...

Wed, 04/22/2015

April 22, 2015 at 2:00 pm Eastern Time, Dazza Greenwood, of MIT spoke with Jason Thomas of Thomson Reuters, an international thought leader on crowdsourcing, social data, virtual environments, digital currencies and mobile applications in the context of national security and intelligence.  The...

Thu, 03/19/2015

ABA Techshow & MIT Media Lab Online Legal Appathon

Join us in a novel collaboration with the American Bar Association Techshow for the "Online Legal Appathon" and innovate the field, practice and service of law.  You can be a 

Learn to use an array of open source and other...

Sun, 02/22/2015

This project was originally created by Brooklyn Law School's BLIP Clinic and in collaboration has been taken to the next level at the CodeAcrossBoston Event at the MIT Media Lab on February 21-22, 2015

Ongoing Work on FirstToDisclose Project

  • Demo:...
Tue, 02/17/2015

February 4th, 2015 Joint session with UMKC Law School and Brookly Law School "BLIP CLINIC" Class.  Alpha Launch Google Hangout for law.MIT.edu

 

Join at:...

Thu, 02/12/2015

CodeAcross information

Update: May 6, 2015 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Video Overview

 

During the weekend of ...

Sun, 02/01/2015

Call for Creative Solutions and Ideas

2015-OpenAsk-003

 

Call for buildable conceptual frameworks, proposed prototype projects or other testable approaches: Initial...

Thu, 01/15/2015

This week at the MIT Media Lab legal and policy innovators working on cryptocurrency and other blockchain based technologies met to discuss the state of this dynamic emergent field.  

 

Livecast Address January...
Fri, 09/12/2014
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Thu, 09/11/2014

MIT Legal Physics Keynote:

David Zvenyach on...

Tue, 07/22/2014

Hack for Justice with the ReEntryApp.net team at the Hackcess to Justice Legal Hackathon in Boston August 7/8!

  • Technology has taken a firm hold in the legal industry. But the promise of technology has been fleeting when it...
Tue, 07/08/2014

Developing a Next Generation Collaborative Cloud-Based FlowScape

The Legal Physics Research Team is embarking on a new REST-based integration drive to take LegalHackathon.org and related personal media and idea flow to the next level.  The general concept is described on...

Thu, 04/24/2014

Initial Research Study Preview: Uniform Law Adoption Analytics

There are many facets of the law to which data science and computational legal science methods can be applies and many aspects of such science that can be applied to any given facet of the law.  One of the promising entry...

Thu, 04/17/2014

MIT Legal Hackathon 2014 and the OpenLegalCode Project.

Save the Date: June 12-15, 2014.

Participate in person or online.  We plan to open registration in May.  In the meantime, we're chattering via our ...

Wed, 04/16/2014

The MIT Legal Hackathon is an online event June 12-15, 2014 convened by the Legal Research Team at Media Lab's Human Dynamics Group.  

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Wed, 03/26/2014

Live Discussion Session: April 3, 12:45pm Eastern Time

MIT Anchor Page for Live Video and Online Engagement Methods

 

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Thu, 03/06/2014

The MIT Big Data Privacy workgroup is tackling the hard questions of business, legal and technical frameworks needed to achieve the promise of big data while avoiding the perils.  The workgroup is contributing to a national...

Thu, 02/27/2014

 

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Fri, 12/20/2013

This Project is Now Published as an MIT IAP Project

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Thu, 09/26/2013

As a founding member of the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group, MIT's delegates have contributed to design of governance as well as technical and substantive policy making for this NSTIC initiative.  Today, the IDESG is considering how and when to incorporate  in order to formalize the...

Fri, 07/19/2013

Sandy Pentland will address the NSTIC IDESG Plenary on the topic "Trusted Identities for a New Deal on Data"

For more information please check back here in the coming days.

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Tue, 06/25/2013

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace will hold it's Plenary meeting for the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group at the MIT Media Lab this July 24-26, 2013.  For more information about these meeting and this group, please consult their...

Tue, 05/07/2013

ID Commons, a user-centered identity non-profit umbrella group (best know for the Internet Identity [Un]Workshop), is also notable for advancing an innovative corporate entity form called "...

Wed, 04/10/2013

Slides, Video and Related Materials To Be Posted Here.

Fri, 03/29/2013

This is the Official MIT eCitizen Design Challenge page for the Sensible-Data Platform for computational social science.
For up to date information and to engage check out our Design Challenge live blog site.

Wed, 03/27/2013

 
Yesterday, Mozilla Persona launched at https://login.persona.org after a preliminary beta period.  With this new tool you only need one password to sign in to many sites.  But when you dig deeper, it is clear this is not quite the same as using...

Thu, 03/21/2013

The eCitizen.MIT.edu research initiative is organizing an online Mock Trial on federated identity and personal data sharing case this summer, 2013. For more information, check back on this page and join our contact list.

Thu, 03/14/2013

Joi Ito is being interviewed now at the Media Lab (like right now, I'm sitting in the audience) with the BBC and, well, with the World.  BBC includes questions and comments in real time from their Facebook and Twitter feeds.  Appropriately, all the Internet soured feedback and contribution is...

Thu, 03/14/2013

The eCitizen.MIT.edu research initiative at the Media Lab is teaming up again with our friends at MIT's Kerberos and Internet Trust Consortium (MIT-KIT) to develop open source solutions for next generation user-controlled resource sharing.  Below is the summer student project posting by the MIT-...

Thu, 03/07/2013

Place holder for the New Media Venture spring 2013 semester project to develop open, public architecture for eCitizen identity and data sharing in public/private partnership context.
For more information, reach out to us at our contact page....

Mon, 03/04/2013

 

The Media Lab Mixer
The Media Lab Mixer project is encouraging and measuring person-to-personal socializing among members of the MIT Media Lab this semester... and the results are both promising and raise a set of new important questions.  
The project is an initiative of...

Thu, 12/20/2012

We will be running a "Legal/Technical Integration" track at the MIT Media Lab's upcoming Personal Data and Trust Framework Hackathon to be held from January 28 through Feb 1st.   Specifically, concurrent design and agile development of applied MIT Model Rules (aka System Rules and contracts) and...

Mon, 12/17/2012

The below video was generated as part of discussion and collaboration among a cross-disciplarary team at the MIT Media Lab's Human Dynamics group for the purpose of providing more background and context underlying the ecitizen.mit.edu research focus on integrating business, legal and technical...

Sun, 12/02/2012

Updated June 20, 2013 - The current draft versions of the MIT Model System Rules and associated documents are available at https://github.com/HumanDynamics/SystemRules with relevant documentation at our Wiki:...

Wed, 10/24/2012

MIT, as a member of the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG), has actively participated with a large group of other IDESG members on the revision of governance documents for that group.  The IDESG is the governing body created to implement the National Strategy for Trusted Identities is...

Wed, 10/24/2012

Initial Draft for Comment: Personal Data Trust Framework System Rules

The MIT Media Lab's Human Dynamics group, in collaboration with partner institutions, is pursuing a innovating initiative to...

Wed, 10/24/2012

This page is coming soon...
More information on this project is currently available at: http://civics.com/nfc-onecard-demo/