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Dedicated to addressing the global imperatives of our time Planetwork convened a conference aroundglobal ecology and information technology that grew into a community that launched digital identity LinkTank 50 tech media experts ASN Initiative Augmented Social Network Identity Commons User centric digital identity Background In July 1998 at the height of the dot. com bubble Jim Fournier Elizabeth Thompson Erik Davis David Ulansey Mike Vincenty and Heather Newbold founded Planetwork. In May 2000 the San Francisco based nonprofit convened the first international conference focused on IT and global ecology at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio. That seminal event spawned a conversation about the potential for an online social network for society.