The Complexify Lab: Workstream D

  • Privacy level and tech: secrecy-positive software, wearable, and hardware architectures and philosophies

  • Innovation to Invention ratio: 0 to 5

  • Location: Sweden and Partners

  • Rationale: the 3rd most innovative country in the world in 2022; already privacy- and possibly secrecy-sensitive in a wider society; access to a 10,000-strong Stockholm tech ecosystem; existent access to European and global markets; existent reputation in engineering, social responsibility, sustainable and circular economies, business invention and innovation; clear historical sense of geopolitical actors in Europe and a wider world

  • 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.”