Geolocation is a pinpoint to your device’s location by using your IP address or your Wifi (Addresses and Accuracy, 2019). If Wally had a device, geolocation is a feature that you could use when trying to find him in a Where’s Wally image.   Geolocation is a technological border that tends to enforce more effective […]

In the last decade Samsung and Apple have dominated the smartphone industry with their rivalry being a driving force for innovation in the industry.  Choosing  between the two is a burden that many consumers face before purchasing their smartphone. However, while these two giants were busy fighting it out, it appears they failed to deal […]

Organisations love borders. Departmental borders, leadership borders, those little short wall borders between desks, physical walls to keep the lower levels out of the snazzy offices… the list is endless. But the real struggle, is how to translate these borders into information systems. What the use of that fancy office door if Linda from accounts […]

  Stretching as far as the eye can see, the Great Firewall of China is as inconvenient, seemingly impenetrable border which separates the People’s Republic of China from the World Wide Web. The Great Firewall is the tongue-in-cheek term used to refer to the stringent regulations that prevent access to certain websites and applications in […]

Since the Berlin Conference (1884-5) Africa has been plagued by the creation of artificial states. It was then that European colonies partitioned Africa amongst themselves in a well thought out and fair manner – using a ruler and pen. The unfortunate reality is  that these borders were drawn based on how far countries had advanced […]

When you think of the internet, you think of google, you think of the millions of results that they find for you in a matter of seconds. For example, if you google the letter ‘a’, google will return about 25,270,000,000 results (0.35 seconds).  The internet is however often compared to an iceberg, where it looks […]

According to the EU, the Irish language, and many other lesser spoken are in grave danger. The language supports for these tongues are basically non existent (Judge, Rehm, Uszkoreit, 2012). Even here on our own island we cannot manage to adapt our information systems, as evident by this man who is suing several Irish state […]

    As a no-deal Brexit is becoming more of a reality, there is one thing that Ireland, the UK, and the EU can agree on: they all want to avoid a hard border. A hard border in Northern Ireland affects not only the peace-agreement that’s in place, but 7,300 companies that export to the […]

The troubles associated with being a “border baby” (aka born along the Northern Ireland – Republic of Ireland border) are complex. Steeped in a multi-generational cocktail of patriotism and terrorism, there is little that Unionists and Nationalists can agree on when it comes to the border. Whether it is the welcome signs (Hennessy, 2019) or […]