The Complexify Lab: Workstream B

  • Privacy level and tech: privacy-positive software and wearable philosophies

  • Innovation to Invention ratio: 4 to 1

  • Location: Ireland, US, UK; Sweden and Partners as direct participants and practitioners, licensors business-wise, and additionally observers and consultants, process-wise

  • Rationale: Workstream B is scoped to build on the delivery using traditional software and hardware architectures and practice from Workstream A, first delivered by US big-tech and others, using at that point exclusively Irish-located personnel (including US- and UK-related workforces, agencies and stakeholders), with clear and immediate access to three markets — US, European, and UK. This access, already manifest in Workstream A, will deepen in Workstream B, as the processes used begin to connect with the more heavily research-based approaches of Sweden and its Partners of choice

  • At no time will the main stakeholders of Workstream A have to renege on their total surveillance principles and philosophies. With this separation of activities, where relationships nevertheless can comfortably exist for all parties, their culture of democratic oversight and permanent observing will be able to remain entirely intact, both in theory and practice

  • Nevertheless, they will have the option of beginning to pick and mix those aspects which filter into Workstream B from the next stages which will almost certainly explore secrecy-sensitive and secrecy-positive software architectures, wearables, and hardware

  • Proposed beachhead sector & paying clients: military, law-enforcement, and security & espionage agencies; stakeholders where the management of risk and other security, but not immediately criminal, matters are an ongoing concern

  • Objectives: create intuitive and arational thinking-spaces capable of strategising longer-term than traditional and shorter democratic cycles, in order to prevent future Ukraines and other structured geopolitical dislocations, at the same as preserving and nourishing the longitudinal sociopolitical conditions which resilient and healthy democracies require. Other complex problems such as climate change and water security (to name just two) may also be in scope for such organisations and agencies

Mil Williams, Founder and Tech Thinker:

“Then there are other big challenges such as climate change which seem to escape our capacity to resolve them coherently when, mainly, we have chosen historically to simplify in order to solve what we can, instead of complexify in order to deal with what we must.”