LubnaDajani
Live to Inspire and Innovate.

“Technology is a Product of Human Innovation.”— Lubna Dajani
At Allternet, building a post-quantum hardware root-of-trust and the protocol layer for self-sovereign identity. Co-chairing Catalyst 2030 USA on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Active on IEEE P7800 and continuing contributions to 7010, 7014, 2874, and P7016. Reading, slowly, on regenerative finance and the kindHuman thesis. Writing, less quickly, the next essay.
I have spent twenty-five years working at the seam between deep technology and the people it touches. In 2005 I was working on RFID when most rooms had not yet heard the word. In 2007 I co-founded Mobile Monday New York because the mobile internet was about to rewrite identity, and the conversation needed a room. In 2014 I wrote The Allternet — the manifesto that became the company I run today.
The questions have not changed: who owns your data; who owns your name; who decides what trust costs. The instruments have. From mobile to self-sovereign identity, from privacy policy to cryptographically held identity, from ethics committees to IEEE working groups, from convenience to consequence. I have served as a W3C Invited Expert on Privacy, contributed to IEEE 7010, 7014, 2874, P7016 and P7800, and now build hardware-rooted, post-quantum-ready trust at Allternet.
I am convinced of one thing. The bridge from humankind to kindHuman is built one sovereign voice at a time — and it is finally something we have the tools to build.
A voice that we can hear.
three movements · sub-2 min“For the first time in human history, each of us today has a voice that we can hear if we choose to use it and if we choose to listen.”— Lubna Dajani
Voices remembered on this device
Privacy by architecture
What you type is hashed in this tab via SubtleCrypto.SHA-256. The raw text is never sent anywhere and is never written to disk. Only the digest and a coarse minute-grained timestamp are kept in IndexedDB on this device, capped at twelve, FIFO. Names never surface. Same input → same node, always.
Twenty-five years, four registers — venture, board, standards, scholarship.
Verifiable contributions to the standards bodies that govern trust.
- W3CInvited Expert, Privacy Community Group
- IEEE 7010Well-being Implications of AI — contributor
- IEEE 7014Ethical Considerations in Emulated Empathy — contributor
- IEEE 2874Spatial Web — contributor
- IEEE P7016Metaverse — contributor
- WICWireless Internet Caucus — founding member & secretary
- OTPAOpen Trust Protocol Alliance — founding member
- Paper · 2020“Activating Collective Intelligence to Engineer Transdisciplinary Impacts” — co-author, IEEE P7010 WG
- Chapter · 2014“The Allternet” — book chapter
Interviews, panels, and talks.
- 2020Privacy Talk — with Kohei Kuriharainterview
- 2022The Washington Outsider Report Ep 43interview
- 2025361Firm — Newportpanel
- 2025IEEE Challenge — Finalistrecognition
- talkThe Domains of Identity — with Tony Fish & Kaliya Youngconversation
- talkKuppingerCole EICkeynote
- 2018MyDatatalk
- 2024GatherVersetalk
- 2024IMCICpaper
- talkInvestors Live — Women in VCpanel
Essays, in her own register.
- essayControl the Data Control the Powerread
- essayIn our quest for convenience, are we making Devil's bargains?read
- essayCare to take control of your personal data and digital identity?read
- essayShould you care who owns your Identity?read
- essayLiving in the Genesis of a New Era in Human Historyread
“For the first time in human history, each of us today has a voice that we can hear if we choose to use it and if we choose to listen.”
Allternet is the company I founded to build what the manifesto described: a hardware-rooted, post-quantum-ready trust layer for the next internet — self-sovereign identity, ethical AI, energy / data / telecom convergence — with privacy as architecture, not policy. allternet.com.
“I am convinced that we are finally in a position to lift the economic burden and eradicate hunger and much of the unnecessary suffering in the world.”— Lubna Dajani
Three modes.
Advisory & board work
Deep-tech, identity, privacy, post-quantum security and regenerative-systems ventures — early through Series B.
Speaking & moderation
Keynotes, symposia, standards bodies. The room that wants the technical and the humane in one voice.
Press & conversation
Interviews, podcasts, op-eds. On record, in her register.