Your Real Name, On the Internet: CiviliNation Advocates for Online Accountability January 4, 2011

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and attorney Andrea Weckerle discuss the mission statement of CiviliNation, their nonprofit effort to promote civil discourse online. To achieve greater personal accountability, they recommend users voluntarily use their actual identities when posting on the Internet.

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On November 30th and December 1st, 2010, at the TIME Conference Center in New York City, many of the most innovative people and organizations in the science and technology world came together for an historic gathering - the 2010 World Technology Summit & Awards, the eighth Summit and ninth Awards thus far! - to celebrate each other's accomplishments; to explore what is imminent, possible, and important in and around emerging technologies; and to create the kinds of serendipitous relationships that create the future.

The majority of Summit participants were either current WTN members (primarily winners/finalists from previous World Technology Awards cycles, as selected by their peers as those doing the innovative work of "the greatest likely long-term significance") or 2010 World Technology Award nominees. A combination of keynote talks, panel discussions, and breakout sessions... and potentially-career-altering-networking opportunities over two days concluded with a gala black-tie Awards ceremony on the second night. - World Technology Network

Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, the charity which operates Wikipedia.org, and as the co-founder of Wikia.com.

Andrea Weckerle is an attorney licensed to practice law in Washington D.C. and New Jersey. Prior to founding CiviliNation, she ran her own boutique communications consultancy and worked with national agencies, where her experience included legal and corporate communications, as well as online communications and social media.