Ostrom Workshop

Doc Searls is a veteran journalist, widely-read author, pioneering blogger and oft-quoted opponent of uninvited tracking of people online. He is a leader in the movement to increase personal agency and privacy online, both through ProjectVRM at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and Customer Commons, the nonprofit he co-founded with Joyce Searls, his wife and collaborator. He is also co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto (a business bestseller) author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, and a fellow of the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In The World is Flat, Tom Friedman calls Doc "one of the most respected technology writers in America.”