Every week we are hearing more about data breaches, hacks, identity thefts, you name it. Our personal data and privacy is at risk. What should we do? Delete Facebook? Turn off GPS? Retreat from the online world into the woods? The answer involves learning a bit more about why this happening, taking the right personal steps and then continuing the conversation so collectively we move towards a data paradigm with better outcomes for individuals and businesses.

I’m writing on the topic after the recent avalanche of news in the area and the release of Digital Rights Watch’s (DRW) report titled…

It was October 2014 when I first started to wonder about the Central Market Tower. I’d read an article in the paper about plans to run a public competition to generate ideas for its unused floors. I’d never even thought about what might be inside the Tower, let alone that is was empty.

I must have walked past the Tower a hundred times. I even worked in the bakery in the building below the tower in my teenage years. But I never really looked up. I never wondered what the Tower was, but now I was curious.

Why build a Tower?

As I researched…

This Aussie winter I was lucky to migrate north to Europe, spending five weeks travelling through Denmark, Sweden and Norway during an abnormally warm Nordic summer.

I love travel and the perspective its gives you on your home town. As you walk around you notice the differences between where you are and where you are from. As I travelled, I made notes on what I marvelled at, what inspired me, and what I thought would be great to see in my home town of Adelaide, specifically in the city.

Those notes evolved into this article. They are five ideas born…