2021 Fellow Christine Webber

Christine Webber works on decentralized/federated social network systems and on other technical issues surrounding expanding user freedom and agency. Chris co-authored and co-edited the W3C ActivityPub standard, which as of 2020 is the most popular and widely deployed web-based decentralized social network protocol to date. Their current work on Spritely is a research project on advancing decentralized social networks by introducing better privacy and security through integrating object capability theory, as well as exploring how to expand these systems towards full virtual worlds with richness of interactions parallel to our own.