Social Use Cases for the ID3 Open Mustard Seed Platform

Open Mustard Seed (OMS) is a project of the Institute for Data-Driven Design (ID3) and the M.I.T. Media Lab that seeks to develop new social ecosystems consisting of trusted self-healing digital institutions operating on open networks. The cornerstone of OMS is an open data platform that enables people to share all their personal data within a legally constituted "trust framework". This framework allows people to initiate their own "personal data store" (PDS) that can securely store and process static and dynamic data about themselves. All elements of the trust framework - open authentication, storage, discovery, payment, auditing, market making, and monetized "app store" services - are based on "privacy by design" principles. That is, privacy, security, and trusted exchange are built into the very design of the system itself.