Well... a broswer "back" butten instead of the application "back" button, and there my lengthy summary article on ICT2008 was turned into "this page is outdated".

Better write your longer pieces here in a separate text editor...

Paul Hodgson, BT Innovate spoke on social trust. He would have com in handy on yesterday's trust debate on the PICOS session.

He stated that:

* trust emerges to contain social complexity

* trust cheaper than control

* it requires evidence to justify trust

He pointed out that virtual acts need to relate to "real meaning", implying that social trust is strongly related to identity, and thereby to the quality of electronic identifiers.

With this line of thought, social trust is based on the t… Continue

The PICOS networking session on ICT2008 turned into a lengthy discussion of trust. However, from the spectator's view, discussion of trust has not advaced much lately. Audience and panel did not make a distinction between trust in systems (which the PICOS privacy designers argued for) and trust among members of a community (which the audience seemed to have in mind). With this confusion in place, the discussion spun around various of the usual suspect topics. However, towards the end of the disc… Continue