From June 19 through 21, 2006, Harvard University’s Berkman Center is going to host the Identity Mashup Conference, which has this to say:

The goal of the conference is to explore the role of identity systems (tools that let users and merchants know whom to trust on the web) in furthering or inhibiting privacy, civil liberties and new forms of civic participation and commerce.

I’ll be one among many speakers, many of whom are eminent experts from technology, to society and public policy. Although I don’t have too many details yet, I would like to recommend this conference to anybody who would like to explore and learn about the synergies and conflicts between empowering technologies, civil liberties, law, governance and new social structures including new forms of commerce.

Harvard has a unique ability to bring together a very unique mix of people; if you can, you want to experience that …