One of Hybrid Vigor’s long-standing goals has been to build a global network of collaborative thinkers. We’ve made a good head start over the years through our project work in various areas, but now we’re ratcheting up the visibility of the effort by assembling a team of blog authors for Hybridvigor.net.

The first author to join the blog team is Mike Neuenschwander, one of the best known names in the “digital identity” and identity management community. (Read his first post here.) Identity management is the increasingly important system of business processes, policies and technologies that controls user access to applications and resources online, and protects confidential information from identity theft and other unauthorized use.

I met Mike in the context of his work on next-generation identity services, when I wrote about his fascinating idea for a “Limited Liability Persona” in my NYT innovation column on digital identity and security.

We’re in the process of finding a diverse group of innovative, respected thinkers like Mike — naturally inclined toward collaborative thinking and research, want to broaden the public conversation about an issue or problem they care about, and want that broader conversation to make an actionable difference in the world.

Watch this space!