THE VILLAGE GROUP enabling the authenticity economy
“The Internet Is Broken” proclaims the title of a recent MIT Technology Review cover story, while Stanford University's Clean Slate Initiative explores the idea of scrapping the existing Net and starting over.
The member enterprises and noncommercial organizations of the Quiet Enjoyment Alliance know that problems of malware, spam, invasion of personal privacy, phishing and predation can be solved with existing technology, applied according to the principles, methods and procedures of the Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure.
Learn about the Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure
Learn about the member organizations of the Quiet Enjoyment Alliance
QEA member enterprises and noncommercial organizations are
chartered and supported using methods that were implemented with
remarkable success by George Hatsopolous, the
founder of Thermo Electron Corporation. Each organization is, or will
be, separately incorporated. Each has its own management. Each focuses
on its own deliverable
product or service that is built upon QEI for its own target audience
or market.
For its part, The Village Group acts as provider of intellectual
property and support, as facilitator of services provided by one member to
another, and as provider of basic business services including marketing
support, accounting services, business planning services, office
facilities, hosting, purchasing, etc. The Village Group's goal is to
relieve the QEA entrepreneur of as many basic business chores as
possible, allowing her or him to focus on profitably building a base of
satisfied customers.
Effectively, all fulltime professionals in QEA member organizations share the same title, which is "Entrepreneur." We participate in that new phenomenon, a sector of the borderless world economy characterized by lean and agile organizations such as Craigslist, Apache, and our own StartCom, whose great impact on the world is belied by their small size. Every one of the professionals in each member organization works toward goals that resemble those of an enterprise or noncommercial organization.
As the Chief Executive Officer of The Village Group Inc., Wes Kussmaul facilitates the deployment of the Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure by members of the Quiet Enjoyment Alliance.
In 1981 Wes founded Delphi Internet Services Corporation and its Kussmaul Encyclopedia, the world's first computerized encyclopedia, an early example of hypertext. In 1989, Delphi became the first to bring the Internet to mass audiences. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation acquired Delphi in 1993.
While CEO of Delphi, Mr. Kussmaul launched a spin-off company, Global Villages, Inc., to provide magazine publishers with the business planning, design, engineering, hosting, management, and promotion services that allowed them to offer online services to their subscribers and advertisers under their own name.
During that time Wes realized that the unboundedness of the Web posed obstacles to the kind of secure communities and reliable identities needed by publishers and other relying parties. In order to focus on the authenticity issue, Wes sold the hosting portion of Global Villages Inc. to NTT Verio.
The continuing operation, now called The Village Group, turned its attention to enrollment technologies that will enable secure and reliable online spaces governed by the principles of professional licensing, building codes, and occupancy permits.
In 2002 The Village Group became a charter signatory to the International Telecommunication Union's World e-Trust Initiative and is now a Sector Member of the ITU. In 2007 the Secretary General of the ITU asked Wes to serve as a member of the High Level Experts Group in the ITU's Global Cybersecurity Agenda; and as a member of that group was asked to present his QEI vision of an authenticity-infused secure Internet to a meeting of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).
Wes is the author of several books about privacy and authenticity, including Quiet Enjoyment (2004), Own Your Privacy (2007), and The Future Needs You (2007). He is also an individual adherent of the International Union of Latin Notaries and has been appointed a Notary Ambassador by the National Notary Association.
Wes received a BS in Physics from the University of Central Missouri in 1971 while stationed in the US Air Force at Whiteman Air Force Base (SAC) and did graduate study in Business Administration at Boston University.
As CEO of Authentrust, Inc., Kip Schultz brings over 19 years of progressive experience in top management of businesses in the consumer goods and IT consultancy industries.
Most recently, Mr. Schultz served as President and CEO of Dakini, Inc, a consumer goods apparel company which serves over 500 accounts worldwide and also operates an e-commerce site as well as a series of retail outlets.
In 1991, Mr. Schultz also served as Co-founder and President of Evolving Systems, Inc, which provided IT consulting services to companies in the Boston metro area. Prior to Evolving Systems he was with Thomson Financial Networks, selling an online database of market research in the Investext division.
To the organization, Mr. Schultz brings a broad range of experience and a practical-minded business approach. At Authentrust Kip leads the creation of a sensible and agile framework for the implementation of authentic identities in the enterprise, which can be applied to a diverse range of businesses and industries.
Dr. Hadley is responsible for development of many of the software components of The Village Group's unique product offerings. His previous experience includes developing a new email generating system and gift certificate customer acquisition application for Amazon.com, responsibility for all email systems at PlanetAll.com including automated generation and response, CTO at InfoDeal.com, and twenty-five years in consulting and university faculty positions.
Dr. Hadley received his Ph.D. and A.M. from Princeton University, M.S. from Northeastern University, and S.B. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis title was "Scattering of Waves by Inclusions in a Non-homogeneous Elastic Half Space Solved by Boundary Element Methods."
A former Executive Director of the American Society of Notaries (ASN), Ms. Lilly brings extensive knowledge of notarial law, procedures and standards around the world, and highly-developed communication skills, to the management of our relationships with notaries, notary organizations, and government agencies around the world.
Ms. Lilly has served as Chief Editor of over 40 publications including American Notary, ASN's quarterly magazine, and Notary Tipsheet, distributed to over 14,000 members. In the past six years, Ms. Lilly has written many noteworthy articles for the Society, including "The Unlawful Notary" (see Fourth Qtr. 1999 American Notary) and was involved in the writing and editing of state-specific notary handbooks for Arizona, Delaware, DC, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Texas, and the Marriage Handbook for Florida, Maine, and South Carolina notaries.
Ms. Lilly has taught professional notary public courses in Florida for years, and collaborated on the creation of the Society's classroom and online notary training programs for Florida and South Carolina, and on the 40-Hour ASN Instructor Certification Program. Her knowledge of proper notary procedures makes her a valuable and qualified Professional Notary Instructor.
Prior to her tenure with the Society, she worked for 3 years with Notary Public Underwriters (NPU), a large notary bond firm. There she marketed the company's services and provided technical assistance, assisting and educating notary clients regarding proper notarial practice. Prior to NPU Ms. Lilly was with the Capital City Bank Group for ten years.
Eddy, if you want to be here please provide a bio.
Eddy, if you want to be here please provide a bio.