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# Closing Keynote #2: Sam Smith (Nonconformist Innovation Summit)

A 35-minute video of Samuel M. Smith's closing keynote at the Nonconformist Innovation Summit, July 2020, on the economics of digital identity. Judging from the matching slides, it argues for cooperative network effects and for people retaking control of their data and identifiers. For a general audience.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence presenter-reported (a talk or meeting; what was said, not checked).
Source: https://youtu.be/8shbJbdXdis (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).