 Hi, I'm Dazza Greenwood a co-organizer of the computational law and blockchain festival of 2018 here in the Boston node and this is a quick video overview of particular design challenge that is one of the one of the Basically topics you could Form a team and do a project to compete on and this one is called slick SLIC sovereign legal identity challenge and In addition to an overview. I'll answer some questions about how you can submit a team project So let's get into that Here we go. So first of all What's this computational on blockchain festival I'm talking about it is happening from March 16th to 18th? 2018 worldwide It's been largely organized and inspired by my favorite group legal hackers But it's happening in it in a coalition with a lot of terrific groups the first annual computational law and blockchain festival Is a three-day global event bringing together coders designers lawyers policymakers researchers? students Candlestick makers your rowboat drivers everybody it's for you It's for everyone to co-create the future of law legal practice and policy so in the spirit of a decentralized organization and a Distributed Approach this festival will be hosted at independent self-organized nodes in cities around the world So each of the cities that has a physical venue for this event. We're calling a note It's decentralized the festival is designed to be as inclusive as possible with activity tracks for participants of all backgrounds You can learn you can hack and you can discuss by hack we mean build of course and Learning is probably the the thing that everyone's going to do irrespective of whatever particular track or tracks They participate in but there's also an organized learning track for those that may be new to computational law or blockchain technology You want to have a blockchain 101? You want to learn how to write a smart contract on a blockchain? You want to learn the basics from local and global experts that are educational sessions and workshops? You are in luck because that is the first track That's that's being supported at this event Hacking is one that's near and dear to our hearts here in Boston We'll have plenty of folks from MIT and from other places We're just bubbling with innovation where we like to build the things like to rapid prototype And if you're a coder or designer, you should consider taking part in this in one of our global challenges which is With this global challenge track is a distributed 24-hour hackathon That will challenge you as a participant in your team to build open source computational law And or blockchain for law use cases with a chance to win some awesome prizes And then there's also a discussion track um You know one thing about lawyers is we love to talk But everybody likes to talk about blockchain and to learn and talk about these new opportunities to transform law with technology This computational law Approach to technology and law Interested in policy implications of blockchain technology and computational law whether you should join the symposium Which is this discussion track is a distributed policy hack to discuss core issues related to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies With a goal of contributing to a free and open global survey of those issues. That's a nicely organized track that's going to result in um That in um in some good documentation. They've got I think like 20 particular topics. Um, I should also add that for this um, so that's the context of of the um computational law and blockchain festival The sovereign legal identity challenge is one of the challenges of that festival that I'll mention in a moment but just to um connect to to y'all if you're in any of these cities in spain brazil, india, columbia, massachusetts on and on um Here we go. Then you can Join a local node and take place in any of those three tracks And also um take um part if you choose in um in this particular challenge um Let's find out about the challenge The sovereign legal identity challenge Let's get a little bit of Our space on that um Is um is You could think of it as a as a context and a focus that you could um that you could choose to take on as part of the hackathon track and um and It it involves building out Two things one is a high level design concept and the other is a rapid prototype of some type uh and these would be um a design architecture Or a conceptual architecture and a rapid prototype that demonstrated in some way this concept of sovereign identity or identity that is considered owned and controlled by um by an individual themselves not You know given to us like say uh like a government identity or um an employee identity Or a social media identity So the this concept of sovereign identity Explores a ways that we can utilize new technologies like blockchain technology as a source of um digital identity that um It's self sourced from and uh and and for individuals are on our own behalf So let's talk about each of those two um forks Uh or um, you know components of of the uh of what you would actually do if you want to take on this design challenge one at a time First the conceptual design you could develop a a conceptual design um that demonstrates how individuals can use blockchain technology to Generate use and control their own digital identities The conceptual design should include an outline or a sketch of a realistic approach to deployment and in a stable Identity system including some reference to the business model, you know, like who would pay or how would it be funded? How could it be um economically self-sustaining? Some reference to a legal framework. Um, you know, what would be the uh rights and obligations of the parties? What would be all the roles? What would be the um the basis for enforceability for um for key rules for example? and The technical architecture perhaps the most fun part, um, you know How could you utilize public key cryptography? For example or addresses on a blockchain as a source of usable identity Speaking of usable identity is also a rapid prototype So the rapid prototype should demonstrate How the identity system enables an individual to execute digital signatures Or provide other authorizations that you would need to conduct one or more legally valid and enforceable transactions What do I mean by that? Well, what we're getting at when we brainstormed this would be some examples of legal transactions that Especially you would want to do on your own behalf So not necessarily signing off on a purchase order for your boss at work or um or something like that But perhaps you could um look at focusing on a context in a scenario where the an individual is signing Uh or an enforcing um contracts or other legal instruments Say in their personal capacity And they're utilizing a digital signature that is executed Or adopted based on a public key Pair that's the same one that they use for a blockchain address Um, you could look at registering and holding trademarks or copyrights Um, you know, how could you um complete the paperwork on that? What would the how could you apply the signature and the other attestations? Um, what would be the identity? The source of the identity uh that of the registrant How could it be verified? Um, you could look at sending receiving finding legal notices. That's an interesting one You know, could the blockchain address be the address that you um can be Founded at and that you could receive notice. What would it take for that notice to be? Valid and enforceable. What would it take for it to be binding and legal? Same like on your Reciprocally or like the other side of that coin would be how about sending from that address? um Another thing is you could look at standing as a candidate potentially or voting in in a local election Is it could you think of um zero knowledge proof or um or other? ways to do uh pseudonymous pairwise identifiers or those types of um protocols um You know with blockchain technology for example Um, not too sure about the the candidate in voting. I have to This is a brainstorm. You can come up with your own Um use cases um that in some way demonstrate sovereign identity which again is demonstrating how individuals can use Blockchain technology to generate use and control their own Identities so to self-sourced identity Okay, let's just say you're interested and you want to form a team you want to participate um To register your team project for the sovereign legal identity challenge Submit a github issue with the following information Your name the name of your team The names of the members on your team including their github usernames at least for one member The url of the github repository where your project will be developed and submitted and Reading between the lines here will make this more explicit That means we expect your projects to be in github and under an open source license Um, we're also let us know the url of a youtube channel where you will submit a video We're looking for not to exceed two minute videos. And finally the um Uh, let us know what node and what city Um, your team is using as an anchor and it's absolutely fine for you to have some team members that are remote But at least one person, you know at what at one city would be minimally required one of the uh knit cities Um, we'll be giving uh more information on on the judging criteria And i'll be introducing all the judges in our or at least the first swath of our judges We get some awesome ones in the next video uh, and Let me go to the next thing. Um for those of you that are in the boston area um The boston node is is where it was the locus for this sovereign legal identity challenge and um, you can If you're in the area, you're welcome to um register at clbfest.eventbright.com Um to to do to do there we go and um, that'll be held Right here in cambridge innovation center And Stop the screen share Ta-da. All right. And so that was an overview of uh, a little context of the computational law and blockchain festival and also an overview of the sovereign legal identity challenge and um some information about How you could submit a team project? Um, I hope that you're interested Oh, actually, I should just show one more thing. Um, so I'm getting some feedback here on our telegram channel. Um that I should click the button. So, um, right here where it says Um submit a github issue click this And it will automatically um, um provision an issue for you where uh, What we look for is in the title. Um Like you should put your project name up there. So maybe my project name is um Or what was the one of the topics was um, um, like uh receiving legal notice something like that um slick project for receiving legal notice um, and then you kind of put your project your team name here like notice This or something. I don't know whatever and your your your your that would be your team name your project name your team name They could be the same um put the names of your members, especially the uh, the um github address of a member He had saved as a greenwood Home to to to, you know, whomever chain dough Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Um the project repo Just um copy and paste that in youtube channel and what festival node you would be in the boston node I am not however competing. Uh, and so we will not We're not going to um Submit that one, but that's it's literally that easy with github. Just click the button Fill out the information submit the issue presto change. Oh, there you go. You've changed your state from People thinking about hacking to people that are now hacking. Um, so in the next video a week from now We're also going to show some examples of trust frameworks, which are um those legal frameworks Exam that that's one way to do a legal framework. Um that could cover sovereign legal identity or other digital identity systems We'll show some examples of um of how to do some simple business models Thanks to uh folks in business school that are giving us some templates And uh, we'll show perhaps best of all some examples of some basic technical architectures so ways you can utilize um bitcoin and ethereum and uh, Maybe big chain. Maybe some other interesting um, uh blockchain and related Uh technologies as a as a simple source We'll have some great tools for people. We'll have some great tutorials We'll have some mentors and best of all perhaps Um by way of introductions. We'll also introduce our first swath of star studded Fabulous judges. So um, if you have any questions, um in the meantime come and Pull an issue just if you don't have one by all means uh, get a free github um username and then um pull an issue in um github.com forward slash mit media lab forward slash s l i c Slick or sovereign legal identity challenge is what that stands for and then when you're there see how we've got these uh Oh, i'm not really screen sharing But just uh to make it simple for you to know how to do that if you have questions just Da da go to that address I mentioned and click on issues new And you could if you have some other question kind of blow that stuff away and you could say like um What question would you have like um? I don't know um is uh paper considered blockchain if it is I don't know linked by stables um yes No, and then I would probably After um a very short meeting with our um team say no, it's not really considered blockchain Um for the for purposes of this But you can just ask whatever question you want to ask and then hit um submit and um, that'll let us um deal with those um questions in a in a much more um efficient and in a much faster way because um You know, um, it's distributed you could say Among a team of people that are helping on the slick challenge I guess finally if you're interested in the challenge and you don't want to compete But you would like to support in some way you have a cool technology You've got some nice backgrounders or learning materials Or you think that you could be a mentor or something like that pull an issue We'll get right back to you. So until next time I'm Dazza Greenwood from Cambridge, Massachusetts and looking forward to Collaborating with all of you on the computational law and blockchain festival Happy hacking