One Server Each

My pitch starts with questions, would it be better if an individuals medical records were all in one place? Why is it that when we change our address we have to notify and update 20 accounts? Why is my personal information so vulnerable when it is held in combination with millions of other peoples? The systems that are in place today are monolithic systems, built to aggregate data, which works well when your focus is money or a product, they do not work well on a person. One last question; Who would benefit from the decentralization of peoples data, each persons data siloed, isolated to one server, separate? The individual would, each person having full access to their data, full rights to control it and full rights to distribute access to it. One person, one server each, more reliable and more secure, this is the future of the internet.

The Problem being solved here is rather large, it's about an individual taking back control of their data. The lack of security for an individuals data. Proof of someones online identity. People having a certified presence online. People connecting with each other and not needing a man in the middle to facilitate the connection. The ability to communicate without an arbiter. The lack of tools to administer ones data. The lack of laws concerning a persons personal data. 

Administration Problem: The ability to update your dynamic data once and in one place:

• Current Address
• Profile
• Resume
• Current Job
• Credit Card Data
• Dating Profile
• Phone Number
• Current License Plate
• Current Cars

Identity Problem: The ability to connect to others in a decentralized manner, this is done via a social network of servers. Each server represents a person, connected together with all the other servers of people one knows, an identity pattern emerges the proof being all the servers one is connected to. Governments can also help by backing a persons right to have a server that is associated with them and is the source of truth for their data.

We are serving the the citizen and the government. The citizen is served by having a digital footprint on the internet, a way to control their data on their own server. This provides a platform for people to connect with each other. The benefits of friends all connected together via their servers traverses many different problems in security, identity, social networking and management.  The way the government is served is by certifying a person's personal content management system as the one and only source of truth for a citizens data. Once that is done the whole infrastructures around a persons data can be built. We believe the world's next technical iteration will involve a citizens data rights. All persons having full possession of and responsibility for their own data. Each person having their own server, all their devices connect to their server first and then out to the internet to other individuals servers and then to another individual.

One Server Each

In today's world an individual interacts with websites like Facebook, Linkedin and so on, One Server Each calls these applications the Data Aggregators:

• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Google
• And so on...

Our devices (phone, laptop or computer) communicate with the Data Aggregators.

What do we have to do?

• We create an account on their website.
• We administer the account on their website.
• We post all our precious data and thoughts on their website.

What do we get?

• We get to share our thoughts with each other.
• We get to share our pictures and videos with each other.
• We get to connect with each other.

All of this is a wonderful thing and we are thankful for it.

What do we give up?

• We give up the rights to our pictures, videos.
• We give up the privacy of who we are connected to.
• We give up the privacy of all our shared thoughts.

In other words we give up the rights to all our data. Every website we have an account with requires us to enter our information into their application. This is repeated over and over again for each website.

The Solution Starts With

• At first, important data is stored in your website that defines you, like date of birth, name, address, resume, profile. Instead of entering this information over and over again, we simply point all our accounts to the source of truth, our Personal Information System.
• A personal email server and Contact list, owned and controlled completely by you.
• All of this running on the same application, your connection to the world and the source of truth for your digital, personal information.
• Imagine moving and simply updating your address in your personal information system, thus updating all your connected accounts with the press of a button.
• This is what One Server Each offers, this is the future.

Another feature is a Personal Wall, running on your own website, that combines all the people you are connected to and their Posts, Comments, Pictures and Videos. This Wall grabs the information from each of your friends and families personal website and combines it in your application.

A persons data all in one place makes more sense than it being dispersed among disparate servers. A persons Electronic Health Record all in one place, in one server makes more sense. A persons address, in one place on one server, the source of truth. A persons SSN should be a Single Source Of Truth (SSOT) data field, this refers to the practice of structuring information models and associated schemata such that every data element is stored exactly once. In other words, a persons SSN, DOB or address should be stored once, in one place only. Then access to this SSOT data element is given to the many accounts a person has, read only. A SSN should not be stored all over in separate servers, instead of storing individually entered SSN in every account out there a pointer to the SSOT data should be stored instead. One Server Each changes the way personal information is handled, there are so many options on how to share your personal data with others. I have roughly 20 accounts now, if my phone number changes I have to update them all. The way we are currently scaling, how many accounts will I have to update 20 years from now?

The core technology is a new identity framework. Think of a person and all their friends each having their own server. Now think of them all connected, not like in Facebook where Facebook has the server but each person connected together in a peer to peer network, no middle man. 

Who should control a persons data? 

A person benefits if their data is fully connected to them by law. Underpinning a persons data should be a trusted, distributed, peer based, identity framework. A distributed identity platform with the capability to let you know, with confidence, that your server is connected to my server. 

Our solution would address many problems. First off it solves the problem of a persons digital identity, with this solution of one server each a persons server can be authenticated by the connections to other persons servers and their connection to company and government entities. The use of JSON Web Token would work well with this application.

• Currently serving 2 people.
• Serving 100000 in One year.
• Serving 100000000 in 5 years.

Over the next year, get the platform up and running. In five years the hope would be to have the decentralized social network take off and a large amount of people using the platform.

• Facebook would not want this.
• LinkedIn would not want this.
• Governments might be suspect of the decentralization.
• People might think it too much work to administer their own web presence.

This is the difficult part, The idea is so big. I think that the EHR would be the first good place to start. I would need the support of EHR software companies along with governments. Imagine that that before a baby is even born an EHR is already started in the Personal Content Management System. When a person is born so is their Personal Content Management System. 

Another place to start might be the social network, This would be easier to do and if designed correctly people would gravitate towards it because they own and control the data compared with Fackbook and Google +. 

One, me

I'm a full stack software engineer and a web application developer. When it comes to this solution I fancy myself as a software architect. I have studied all the technologies needed to deliver this big solution.

MIT Solve

Most of this should be open source software, this is a platform that helps peoples personal information server connect to other peoples personal information server. A persons individual server can also connect to a business or government server. We suppose money could be made facilitating corporations and governments in the connection to and exchange of personal information located on a persons personal server.

• Programmers to write a solid content platform
• Programmers to write the RESTFUL decentralized social apps
• Programmers to write the Decentralized Authentication and Authorization System (DAAS). The question of identity.