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Summary
The Organisation for Identity and Cultural Development offers a coherent methodology for designers and technologists to map users’ perceived cultural identity with their digital identities enabling them to better solve ethical and functional problems in digital trust ecosystems caused by identity pathologies. It will cover the opportunities and challenges of turning EMIC into a technology practice.
Speakers
Bruce White is an anthropologist who has been developing the EMIC framework since 1998, he is Co-Founder & Director of The Organization for Identity and Cultural Development (OICD).
Chikara Shimasaki is an educator and Senior Officer heading Innovation, Programmes and Partnerships at the OICD.
- Harms mitigation within the 'Overcoming Human Harm Challenges in Digital Identity Ecosystems' align well with OICD's own understanding of the how identity is weaponized. Vulnerabilities agency, the balancing of power and building collective resilience are all features of what we see an identity weaponization that occurs psychologically and socially, whether or and augmented, of course, or or backed up by digital platforms and the manipulation of identity in in the digital world as well.
- How can the theory from human identity kind of help us to address and mitigate against these harms? And that's something that you know the OICD has been really active in for the last couple of decades. We've been around since 2006. We're a an organization built from a a blend of academics. But primarily in psychology and anthropology spaces. But also we have political scientists, historians, and and and other academic specialists. Whose field is connected to some kind of identity based issue or topic.