Many persons here do not put many caracteristics about them because they want to keep some privacy, but they would very much like to know if some other persons live next to them. How to combine that?
One possibility is that everyone here sends its information to a place that collects such information in a non identyfying manner, and displays the results therefore in a non identyfying manner.
- Exemple1: list of cities where everyone lives, on a world map, with the number of persons by city
- Exemple2: year-of-birth distribution by country
- Exemple3: number of persons in each type of profession by country
I think it should be the less identyfing as possible so that everyone can answer without any reluctance *at all*, so that we will get the maximum participation as possible.
To avoid persons voting twice, or if someone wants to update its caracteristics, I see one technical way that still fully preserves privacy: one would send his email address, this can allow email confirmation (and validation if the user wishes), but the email address would NOT be preserved. Instead a HASH transformation of the email address is kept: it is an id number that statistically allows to recognize that it is the same person as before, but does not allow to find the email adress that generated this ID.
I just thought of this idea, I did not find any webservice doing it. If you know of any, please let me know. If you are interested in participating, please let me know. I think it could work for many organisations, not only imminst. And once people of the same organization find they are in the same city and want to encounter, that's another story (the system I described does not allow it as it is voluntarily non identifying) that must be organized by another system or the organization itself.
Let me know what you think of it. Thx