About Us
This Online Forum of the MIT Media Lab and the MIT E-Commerce Architecture Program is brought to you by:
Conveners
Daniel J. Greenwood, Lecturer at the MIT Media Lab and Director of the MIT E-Commerce Architecture Program
Ray Campbell, Project Advisor, MIT Forums on the Real ID Act
Dan Combs, Program Committee Chair, MIT Forums on the Real ID Act
Discussion Facilitators
Facilitated Discussion Track: The Interest in Homeland Security is facilitated by Colleen Gilbert, Executive Director of the Coalition for a Secure Driver License.
Facilitated Discussion Track: The Interest in Privacy and Civil Liberties is facilitated by Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Facilitated Discussion Track: Practical State Governmental and DMV is jointly facilitated by David Lewis, Former CIO, Massachusetts and Chairman of American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators Committee that implemented the National Commercial Driver License and by Barry Goleman
Facilitated Discussion Track: Convergence of Physical and Digital Identity Related to Real ID is facilitated by Dan Combs, President of Global Identity Solution.
Facilitated Discussion Track: Balancing Interests Going Forward is facilitated by Professor Michael Froomkin, of the University of Miami School of Law
We wish to thank the following organizations and individuals for their material support in the planning and execution of this initiative:
The
Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution, with special thanks to the Center’s Director, Professor Ethan Katsh@dvocacy, Inc., with special thanks to their incoming Chief Technology Officer, Daniel Bennett
Simson Garfinkle, for his early feedback and guidance
Biographical Information
Bio for Daniel Greenwood
Daniel J. Greenwood is a lecturer at the MIT Media Lab, focusing teaching and research at the intersection of public policy, information technology and innovation. A lecturer at MIT since 1997, Mr. Greenwood has led projects for national and state governments as well as fortune 500 private sponsors of research in the MIT E-Commerce Architecture Program, which he founded and directs. As an attorney, prior to joining MIT, Mr. Greenwood served as in-house and outside counsel for information technology issues for the government of Massachusetts. Mr. Greenwood founded and directs the information technology consultancy CIVICS.com, providing strategic and policy solutions for public and private sector organizations and he serves on the boards of directors of various non-profit, standards and trade associations dedicated to information society issues.
Daniel Greenwood has testified several times before U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, as well as state legislatures and federal and state agencies domestically and abroad regarding technology policy issues raised by electronic commerce, individual authentication and civil liberties and electronic signatures and electronic contracts.
Daniel Greenwood is chairman of the eContracts Committee of OASIS/LegalXML, which is developing an international standard for electronic contracts, and chairs the Electronic Agents and Automated Transactions Task Force of the American Bar Association, and he leads or participates in many other standard setting efforts.
Mr. Greenwood has served as an expert in intellectual property litigation and as special counsel and consultant on information technology issues for various governments and fortune 500 firms. Mr. Greenwood is a frequent keynote or speaker at trade, professional and academic events, having addressed tens of thousands of people over the past decade. Daniel Greenwood has been published and widely cited in law and business review journals as well as trade, popular press and quoted or featured on nationally broadcast television, the Wall Street Journal and other mass media.
Daniel Greenwood has served as an arbitrator under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), where he arbitrates Internet domain name and trademark disputes. Mr. Greenwood has also developed legal processes for online mediation used by eBay and other online dispute resolution providers and is the vice chairman of the Online Dispute Resolution technical specifications committee.
While in state government, Mr. Greenwood conceived and coded the first large-scale intranet of any state and created the legal terms and context supporting the first web-accessible credit card payment system of any state government. He also was chairman of the Massachusetts Online Government Task Force, which recommended an vigorous addition of web-based transactions with state government for citizens, businesses and other governments. Mr. Greenwood also later conceived, championed and coded the Massachusetts "TechBills" internet site, making technology related legislation immediately accessible through a database publicly accessible on the web (see: http://www.mass.gov/itd/legal/tekbills/).
A proponent of open source software, Mr. Greenwood hosted and facilitated the founding meeting of the Government Open Code Consortium, bringing together state and local governments under an organizational support and repository structure for the creation and re-use of free and open source software (see www.gocc.gov).
Daniel Greenwood also competes in Olympic and sprint triathlons, teaches hot and power vinyasa yoga and meditation and performs as lead soloist in a modern music ensemble.
More information about Daniel Greenwood is available at www.civics.com
Bio for David Lewis
David Lewis is currently an independent consultant with an unusual combination of business, technical and managerial skills. He has over 30 years of experience in leading the design and implementation of new business processes and strategies in large organizations, largely through cooperation and collaboration. Typical assignments include projects status audits/reviews, potential business evaluations, business development strategies, physical asset relocations, participation in studies as a subject matter expert and employment services. The last major assignment was as Project Manager/Acting Business lead for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services during their recent business process/technology consolidation and rationalization efforts. This effort resulted in the publication of an Information Technology Diagnostic and Transformation Plan for all 16 HHS agencies. This plan called for several business process and supporting technology changes, prime contributor to the design and socialization of many of the centric business processes. He also served as the surrogate business user and prime strategist to establish a common HHS wide electronic intake process for seven different programs serving over 1m clients.
Prior to this voluntary career change, he worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for 31 years, most recently as the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth http://www.mass.gov and the Director of the Information Technology Division http://www.state.ma.us/itd/ . In this position he specialized in encouraging/designing new business processes strategies and influencing change through leadership, cooperation and collaboration. During his tenure, the Commonwealth’s e-government portal for the purpose of providing customer-centric integrated services was established. E-Government offers the opportunity for the Commonwealth to operate in a way that transcends traditional government structures and provides the potential to connect disparate entities without changing the organizational structure. Mr. Lewis began the development of e-government initiatives with the establishment of a 75 member e-government task forces comprised of public and private sector business and technology leaders. He also established several interagency and inter-branch collaborative groups (portal, security, legal) to advise on standard setting for the Mass.Gov effort and created the Mass.Gov office that is responsible for the on-going management of the e-Government efforts.
David was been instrumental in developing processes to improve the management and accountability of statewide IT investments. He oversaw the statewide allocation of $90M in IT capital spending and convinced the Governor and Legislature to continue this funding with the passage of $300m in new funding in 2002. Using the bully pulpit of funding, he encouraged agencies to focus on IT as a long-term investment that had both business and technological metrics.
Prior to working as the state’s CIO, he was the Senior Deputy/CIO for the Registry of Motor Vehicles responsible for most of the business processes in addition to IT. The Registry, in 1994, was the first government agency in the US to offer web-based transactions and also one of the first to allow automated registrations at automobile dealers and car rental agencies. During that time, he was also active nationally chairing committees that implemented the Commercial Driver’s License nationally and established standards for the peer-to-peer electronic exchange of driver license records and a national network to support this effort (AAMVAnet). As a result of these efforts, David was a finalist for the national Achievement in Managing Information Technology award and a recipient of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award. He is a member of several Boards and Committees focused on improvements in education and technology including Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation, a Commonwealth sponsored venture capital firm http://www.mtdc.com/, chairman of the former Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Television, the National Electronic Coordinating Council (www.ec3.org) a consortium of national organizations and public and private sector leaders identifying best practices for strategic change within government and a Corporate Trustee for The Trustees of Reservations, a group that has privately preserved 53,000+ acres in Massachusetts for public use (www.thetrustees.org).
He has presented for the United Nation Online Network on Public Administration at the International Conference on E-Government for Development, in Palermo Italy and at the third Forum on City Informatization in the Asia-Pacific Region, Shanghai, PRC .
Mr. Lewis received a BA in Economics from New England College and MBA from Suffolk University.
Bio for Ray Campbell
Ray Campbell is a lawyer and consultant. His practice is focused on issues at the intersection of public policy, technology, and the law. Ray's public sector experience includes serving as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications, as the General Counsel of the Massachusetts Information Technology Division, and as the Director of Special Projects at the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance. Ray was an attorney in private practice prior to entering the public sector and has a B.A. from Bates College, a J.D. from Suffolk University, and an M.P.A. from Harvard University.
Note: This page will be updated as more biographical information is submitted and/or as additional discussion facilitators are confirmed.