Developing and prototyping activities to unpick the sensitivities of technology use and data management in complex contexts.

Explore & provoke activities revolving around:

Notions of ​positive digital security:

Freedom to act while being secure.

Security as socio-technical process:

How people relate to security and not only how security is enforced upon them by designers and practitioners.

Circumvention of technology:

Explore ingenious ways to alter the uses of technological artefacts.

Delegation of access:

Trust through sharing resources

The use of ​disruptive technologies:

Examine what technologies, such as blockchain and modern encryption techniques, can offer to the communities we work with.

The Research Team & Partners

Newcastle University

Angelou Centre

Union of Women Associations of Herakleion

Sociality Cooperative

... seek to combine methodological tools and design approaches in order to develop an empathetic understanding of participants, their constraints, problem-solving perspectives, interrelations and practices.

Informed by:

feminist and intersectional approaches on data management we will try to...

expand our understanding on existing data security infrastructures

document and compare international perspectives on data security

develop and deploy a socio-technical intervention that responds to design for positive security needs.

Better understand how everyday activities empirically take place,

how these result in a more affective technological design

and how we can foster social processes on security & privacy.

Final Outcome?

Develop an open-source application which will help the communities we work with, tackle everyday problems.

Create a methodology in order to understand aspirations of communities with essential needs.

(women victims of domestic violence, migrants, and other grassroot initiatives that deal with sensitive data)

How all this can be applied on an international level.