Dazza Greenwood
Daniel “Dazza” Greenwood co-founder of the eCitizen Foundation, creating Open, Public Integrated Architectures for use on the Internet by government, business, non-profits and the people. As a lecturer at the MIT Media Lab, Dazza focused teaching and research on Identity and Community at the intersection of public policy, information technology and innovation. A lecturer at MIT from 1997-2007, Mr. Greenwood led research projects for national and state governments as well as fortune 50 private sponsors. At the end of his teaching service, Mr. Greenwood also Directed the MIT E-Citizen Architecture Program (ecitizen.mit.edu) which he continues to collaborate with. Dazza has consulted to NASA as an Online Identity expert, GSA as a multilateral rules drafting expert, Homeland Security as a multistate Federal governance expert and many other agencies and departments.
As an attorney, prior to joining MIT, Mr. Greenwood served as Deputy General Counsel for Information Technology for the State of Massachusetts, and led the inter-agency Massachusetts Online Government Taskforce, hosted a series of well attended Public Briefings on Technology Policy and formed or staffed many multi-state, state-federal and public-private collaborations using the Internet in the public interest. 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 realizing the full potential of an information society.
Dazza Greenwood Chaired the eContracts Committee of OASIS/LegalXML, which developed the first national or international standard for electronic contracts, and Chaired the Electronic Agents and Automated Transactions Task Force of the American Bar Association, Chaired the NACHA Certification and Ratings and Trust Task Force and Co-Authored it's report. and he led or participated in many other standard setting efforts. The eContracts work was was approved and published as a formal, recognized OASIS Technical Committee Specification for eContracts in 2007.
Dazza Greenwood has testified several times before the 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 or transactions. Mr. Greenwood was a central contributor to the drafting and negotiation process leading to various federal and state laws and regulations addressing electronic transactions or online identity, and was so active on the federal E-Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, he is acknowledged by name for his service in the formal legislative record incorporated into that statute.
Mr. Greenwood has guided the process and drafting of community rules for the E-Authentication Partnership (now the Liberty Alliance Trust Framework accreditation and certification sections), the SAFE-BioPharma Identity Portal (Secure Authentication for Everyone), the MultiState E-Mall, and many others. 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 20 years of professional speaking.
Dazza Greenwood has served as an arbitrator under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), where he arbitrated 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 was the vice chairman of the Online Dispute Resolution technical specifications committee of OASIS. Mr. Greenwood continues to assist small and medium businesses with dispute resolution and avoidance as a mediator, arbitrator and facilitator, in the role of trusted neutral third-party.
Mr. Greenwood graduated Cum Laude with Honors from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts, selected by students as Senator and elected as President of the Legal Ethics Fraternity, Phi Delta Phi among other community leadership posts, and was admitted to the Bar as an attorney at law in 1995. Mr. Greenwood graduated from Clark University with a degree in American History, having studied computer science/AI, psychology, economics, sciences and music, and having served as President of the Clark History Society, President of the College Republicans and President of the Clark Civic Liberties League. Mr. Greenwood is no longer a member of any political party, acting independently.
