Daniel "Dazza" Greenwood is founder of CIVICS.com, a boutique provider of professional consultancy services for legal technologies, automated transactions, data management and technology strategy. Dazza is also a researcher at MIT Media Lab where he is advancing the field of computational law and building out Law.MIT.edu research portfolio. Dazza consults to fortune 100 companies, architecting and building integrated business, legal and technology cross-boundary networks at industry scale. As an attorney, Dazza served as both in-house and special counsel for technology law, representing corporations and governments. Dazza has testified before the US House, US Senate and other legislatures on electronic transactions law and consults extensively to the public sector, including to NASA, GSA, DHS, the UK Cabinet Office and many other public and private sector organizations and global NGOs.
Innovation and Entreprenuership
Research
Through research and scholarship at MIT, applying computational techniques of the new science of social physics to the law.
Consultancy
Deploying enterprise-grade public and private sector solutions for the secure flow of big data, personal data and identity services.
Leadership
The Free Law Founders is a nation-wide initiative to improve how laws and legislation are produced and presented to all citizens.
Recent Projects and Activities
Computational Law
Applying computational techniques of the new science of social physics to the law.
Big Data Privacy
Recent book chapter describing a framework for big data, privacy protection and the public good.
PrototypeJams
Creative, participatory events for people to rapidly produce and present prototypes of projects involving law.