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Daniel "Daz" Greenwood
Lecturer
MIT Media Lab
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Daniel "Daz" 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. Daz Greenwood is also principal of the new media start-up company, InterPersonal.TV.
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.
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.
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 http://web.archive.org/web/20070407015001/http://www.civics.com/
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