politics

"NKM" is France's minister in charge of Forward Planning and the Development of the Digital Economy.

Basic information
Assistant Professor
Coming from Canada
Working at Concordia University, Design & Computation Arts

Bio
Anne Galloway recently completed a PhD in sociology and anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, which involved an ethnographic study of the design of mobile and pervasive technologies for urban environments. Interested in connections between technological, spatial and cultural practices, Anne’s current research explores how actor-network theory and critiques of everyday life can help people understand and shape emergent technologies.

Her work has been presented to international audiences in technology, design, art, architecture, social and cultural studies, as well as published in a variety of books and journals. Anne currently teaches design and computation arts at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. She also works part-time as a design researcher on the Touch Project, led by Timo Arnall and based at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

As part of the LIFT09 programme, Anne will join Dan Hill and Carlo Ratti to discuss how the blending of the digital and the physical stands to reshape everyday urban life.

Why LIFT and what Anne expects
LIFT offers the opportunity to exchange different perspectives on shared interests, and I’m looking forward to meeting new people and making new connections.

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Ilpyo Hong from the Hope Institute shows the role of new media in activism in the context of Korea. He starts with a history of the candlelight protest (a recent demonstration against US beef import in Korea) and then moved on to a discussion of Hope Institute and its platform for large-scale social activism.

Unfortunately due to technical difficulties, this video was not completely translated in English so be sure to have your Korean dictionaries handy!

Ilpyo Hong from the Hope Institute shows the role of new media in activism in the context of Korea. He starts with a history of the candlelight protest (a recent demonstration against US beef import in Korea) and then moved on to a discussion of Hope Institute and its platform for large-scale social activism.

Unfortunately due to technical difficulties, this video was not completely translated in English so be sure to have your Korean dictionaries handy!

After some back and forth I am not registered currently (grin) so I just write it here:

I would like to see a workshop on that topic. A lot of the people who are registered are either doing it themselves or providing services allowing others do to it: Move a part of their substantial communication into the internet. Substantial in the sense of: Making up your life. It's important to you.
While there certainly is an aspect of "if it's important it has to work", which would be interesting to explore (in terms of: How to make sure it works when the power fail[s/ed], the other question is:

If the States force providers of telephony and electronic communication to retain all the relevant data, it's easy to create ex-post a communication profile. If you add the location data from the Mobile Phone providers, you have a person bare-ass naked, over the barrel.

Constitutions in Europe contain(ed) provisions to protect the civilian from a nosy state (and opressive governments). In the name of fighting crime (terrorism, sexual abuse), states now become more and more addicted to "just get the data". Probably because a good number of politicians think the internet is somehow a big telefon conference or so. Whatever. And they succeeed, because the people who stand up to protect civil rights are directly or indirectly accused of supporting horrible crimes. You don't want the police to be able to listen to the telephone? You must be in favour of the terrorists! Or do you have anything to hide?

The result is that, in the apparent name of "the good", data gets collected of everybody (who is not advert enough to shade his communications). There will be a tool.

Now imagine we have this tool. Communications are traced. Like weapons, tools are neutral. They become bad or good as they are applied. However, for databases there's the rule that "it will be abused". And mainly because of its' neutrality.