User:Youjung/SI30: Unbordering
Week 1-2: Borders and Boundaries
What is the difference between borders and boundaries? Borders are official, legal and political lines separating jurisdictions. Boundaries feels more intimate, it can be a limit and set of rules that can be both physical or abstract. Nationality, religion, political stance and behaviors that derive from borders can be one's boundaries. I am interested in invisible borders that are derived from one's boundaries.
What are borders that are invisible and not tangible? It can be an assumption derived from ethnicity and culture, accessibility to certain software or the education you are familiar with. During class I was thinking about what is an invisible border that I saw in Rotterdam. Here are some examples.
- café Barbaros: a cafe crowded with older men, seemingly Turkish immigrants. It feels like their community. Seemed warm and lively. I observed the place from outside, wondering how they might react if I walked in.
- Amazing Oriental: a grocery store that embraces wide many cultures. I feel safe and understood there. Like there is a comforting invisible barrier. In contrast, Ekoplaza heels harder to approach, perhaps because of its prices and the people there. These are emotional boundaries.
- In the digital realm, there seems to be a river between people who use Microsoft products and those who don't.
During this session, I explored invisible around shops and stores. How certain places attracts specific kinds of people. Crossing these invisible borders often require courage even though there is no physical obstacle around it. What happens when I do? That is something I should explore further.
Week 5-6
I drew borders for this week's zine.
Week 7-8
Research & Notes
Data, Cloud, Territory and Sovereignty
Data residency is a hot topic especially for cloud data and it has mainly been driven by General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR), which governs information privacy in the EU. GDPR defines the requirement that users' personal data and privacy be protected by organizations that gather, process and store that data.
-> South Korea has 개인정보보호법 PIPA
Data residency: physical or geographical location of an organization's data. Under GDPR, organizations may be required to store certain data within the country or region where it is collected.
Data localization: mandate that data remain within a specific location and jurisdiction.
Data sovereignty: rights and control over data based on the jurisdiction of the data storage and processing.
What makes cloud data residency complex is how resources are deployed and used. Cloud-native workloads: ephemeral microservices that come and go within the cloud can lead to data access and movement hard to detect and track. These microservices pass or move data among each other and have vulnerabilities that could lead to undetected data loss or theft.
Prototyping
Prototypes are documented here.