WRITTEN ON Saturday, October 31st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art

WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, Save Time and Money, What do we want?

If we want to save time and money, the start point is here (click to downlod pdf):

WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Pertinent Art, What do we want?

Here’s a seven laws of identity poster from Kim’s blog. Cool. I wish they were plastered all over St James’ Park tube.

WRITTEN ON Friday, August 7th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Pertinent Art, What do we want?

In describing the NSA’s ambitious construction of a $1.5bn 1m sq ft data centre, James Bamford invokes Luis Borges’ “Library of Babel”:
..a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world’s knowledge is stored, but not a single word understood. In this “labyrinth of letters,” [...]

WRITTEN ON Friday, July 31st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Pertinent Art, What do we want?

WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Pertinent Art, Political engagement, What do we want?

Oh wow. Debategraph is described at length on the White House web site:
Debategraph is a visual policy mapping tool that is being used for running citizen engagement on climate change in Europe. Debategraph translated our mindmap of the redacted transparency proposals into the interactive Debategraph. In this format, the different proposals are rateable, addressable, [...]

WRITTEN ON Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Pertinent Art, What do we want?

The Grauniad reports that the instigator of serious efforts to introduce ID cards in the UK, D Blunkett Esq, has just suggested we don’t need them after all.
Scrap ID cards plan, says David Blunkett. Passports with biometric data would do same job and be cheaper than £5bn scheme, says former home secretary
I think this [...]

WRITTEN ON Friday, April 10th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Pertinent Art, We told you so..., What do we want?

The Tomlinson death shows how much sousveillance is now simply a normal part of life. When did that happen? And when will it become culturally acceptable to the police to be routinely filmed by the public as they go about their business?
No-one asked us if we wanted to be subjected to CCTV all [...]

WRITTEN ON Friday, April 10th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art

WRITTEN ON Thursday, March 26th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art

The Onion’s evocation of “Franz Kafka Airport” is, I feel, a vital contribution to understanding what non-ideal transformational government might be like
The security guard asked me for about 90 minutes ‘Are you who you say you are? Are you who you say you are?’ and then he wrote “liar” on the back of my hand…
The [...]