An Ecosystem of Trustworthy Apps by Sandro Hawke

Presented by Sandro Hawke

Many of the problems people experience with the online world could be addressed if we had "App Freedom", the ability to move easily between applications, without being locked in by siloed data and relationships.

This is a difficult but not impossible challenge. Many other projects seem to be heading in this direction without articulating this goal. This goal state is where we need to be for our apps to be trustworthy and good for humanity.

In this session, I'll summarize this situation, then go through the steps of how we can solve it.  Those steps are:

1. Store data under user control
2. Use translation modules to convert between data schemas
3. Use a credibility network to provide trust and safety
4. Provide a user-data sandbox so people can safely explore apps

This is a report of work in progress, looking for dialog and collaboration.