This Summit was a three-day gathering of the legal community, technology industry, and policymakers, aimed towards building the “Justice Layer of the Internet”, a global marketplace accessible to anyone with a mobile device and a secure and trusted digital identity, and proving access to opportunity for all. It is designed to build on and amplify the success of IBO’s initiatives such as Peacetones, which students of the Institute for Global Leadership helped create.

I spoke during the forum on how the Peacetones vision was developed with the integral help of EPIIC students, and how our Convisero community has now already begun to meet the vision of the Justice Layer.

The Internet Bar Organization (IBO), founded in 2005 by Jeff Aresty, is an organization dedicated to creating networks and digital norms across borders in order to address deficits in trust, legal infrastructure, and verifiable identity - particularly between the developed and developing worlds. I first met Jeff and began our collaboration when I asked him to become an INSPIRE Fellow for the 2007-08 EPIIC year on Global Poverty and Inequality. I have tremendous admiration for him and confidence in his visionary work.