Cultural Design Data Culture Info Sec Blockchain Intersection

Cultural Design & Data Culture: Info. Sec & Blockchain Intersection Shiva Bissessar Pinaka Consulting Ltd shiva@pinaka. co. tt Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa en Uruguay 24 th May 2018

In Brief • Expertise in Information Security. • Within M. Sc. thesis (University College London, 2013) expertise in Blockchain began with examination of Bitcoin transaction flows. • Blockchain experience has been both technical and socioeconomic research which lead to Fin. Tech and Digital Financial Services (DFS) research & practical expertise. • Information Security & Blockchain intersects main themes: • Cultural Design involves big data and data visualization • Data Culture involves social relationships

Conference Themes Cultural Design: to visualize examples where design articulates and shapes multidisciplinary projects through big data, basic sciences, arts, health and neuroscience. Data Culture: projects and initiatives where open cultural data generate new forms of social relationship, of scientific promotion applied to education and culture.

Blockchain 101 • • Secure sequential storage of data Security is based on cryptography Timestamped Built on model on consensus; participants must agree on blocks Data is verifiable by participants within network Public or Private While introduced as underlying technology for a form of value transfer or payment, it has application in various areas and industries • Fin. Tech & Digital Financial Services • Shipping • Supply Chain Management

Data Visualization http: //ethviewer. live/

Blockchain • What information is stored in blockchain? • Representations of identity • What can be revealed via data analysis and visualization? • Relationships • Information Security and Privacy are key concepts in blockchain • Anonymity? • The concept of a Central Bank issued Digital Currency (CBDC) has been proposed with varying degrees of anonymity (zero to full) With increasing use of blockchain technology there may be need for appropriate Cultural Design considerations within such technology to ensure unintended consequences are not realized by data analysis and visualizations

Other unintended consequences

Blockchain • Blockchain does have application in Cultural Design and Data Culture • Has great potential but also hype Need to clearly define use cases and application where blockchain can improve existing methods What better ‘social relationship’ themed Data Culture project is there than saving the Earth?

Challenge Accepted?

Privacy within Data Culture • With concepts of big data and social relationships high on the agenda various themes integral within Information Security become important: • Confidentiality • Privacy • Trust • Privileged access • Use for purpose • Anonymity • 3 rd party sharing Trust is the foundation and currency of social relationships however trust can be misplaced

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Cultural Design & Data Culture: Info. Sec & Blockchain Intersection Shiva Bissessar Pinaka Consulting Ltd Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa en Uruguay 24 th May 2018