Daniel “Dazza” Greenwood currently lives in San Francisco, California, and is principal of the research and development effort to create a new, massively scalable platform to support dialog online, hosted at CIVICS.com. As a lecturer at the MIT Media Lab, Dazza focused teaching and research at the intersection of public policy, information technology and innovation.  A lecturer at MIT since 1997, Mr. Greenwood has led projects for national and state governments as well as fortune 500 private sponsors of research in the MIT E-Commerce Architecture Program, which he founded and directs.  As an attorney, prior to joining MIT, Mr. Greenwood served as in-house and outside counsel for information technology issues for the government of Massachusetts. 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 information society issues. 

Daz Greenwood has testified several times before 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. 

Daz Greenwood is chairman of the eContracts Committee of OASIS/LegalXML, which is developing an international standard for electronic contracts, and chairs the Electronic Agents and Automated Transactions Task Force of the American Bar Association, and he leads or participates in many other standard setting efforts.  This first formal, approved Technical Committee Specification for eContracts was approved in 2007 and published globally be OASIS.

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 decade. 

Daz Greenwood has served as an arbitrator under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), where he arbitrates 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 is the vice chairman of the Online Dispute Resolution technical specifications committee. 

While in state government, Mr. Greenwood was chairman of the Massachusetts Online Government Task Force.  

More information about Daz Greenwood is available at www.civics.com