Some random notes:

- a primary goal of these workshops is to establish working relationships between people from academia, industry and social entrepreneurs


- identities are created as a result of belonging to a community

- what is identity?  (appear to look at identity from perspective of artifacts.)

- there are different notions to identity, such as legal identity, roles and histories of interactions.  For the latter, transactions between individuals can both involve *and* not involve monetary value.

- there is a distinction between group reputation and individual reputation.  The former addresses issues of privacy and promotes institutional longevity.

- In "6 Friends," the real issues on identity involve security and access control between students/users.  Access control tables are too unwieldy and don't scale well with more users (~10,000 students)


- NGOs are strapped for resources, have no resources to spare to test new ideas.  Also cannot afford programmers.