Thread: Transborder illegal immigrant tool

[code]Transborder Immigrant Tool

Mexico/U.S Border
The border between the U.S. and Mexico has moved between the virtual and the all too real since before the birth of the two nation-states. This has allowed a deep archive of suspect movement across this border to be traced and tagged – specifically anchoredto immigrants bodies moving north, while immigrant bodies moving south much less so. The danger of moving north across this border is not a question of politics, but vertiginous geography. Hundreds of people have died crossing the U.S./Mexico border due to not being able to tell where they are in relation to where they have been and which direction they need to go to reach their destination safely. Now with the rise of multiple distributed geospatial information systems (such as the Goggle Earth Project for example), GPS (Global Positioning System) and the developing Virtual Hiker Algorithm by artist Brett Stalbaum it is now possible to develop useful Transborder Tools for Immigrants – and allow virtual geography to mark new trails and potentially safer routes across this desert of the real.

The technologies of Spatial Data Systems and GPS (Global Positioning System) have enabled an entirely new relationship with the landscape that takes form in applications for simulation, surveillance, resource allocation, management of cooperative networks and pre-movement pattern modeling (such as the Virtual Hiker Algorithm) an algorithm that maps out a potential or suggested trail for real a hiker/or hikers to follow. The Transborder Immigrant Tool would add a new layer of agency to this emerging virtual geography that would allow segments of global society that are usually outside of this emerging grid of hyper-geo-mapping-power to gain quick and simple access with to GPS system. The Transborder Immigrant Tool would not only offer access to this emerging total map economy – but, would add an intelligent agent algorithm that would parse out the best routes and trails on that day and hour for immigrants to cross this vertiginous landscape as safely as possible


http://bang.calit2.net/xborderblog/?page_id=2

http://foro.univision.com/t5/Reforma-Mi ... /402939835

The sun still rises in the east and goes down in the west, and has since the beginning of God's created earth.

The "simple" compass has been used for a very long time - many with "glow in the dark" features.

Big money (drugs) buys big electronics that aren't necessarily better - but they can be more flashy.

If the illegal border crossers leave their cell telephones on the signals can help the border patrol find them. That is, if the border patrol has the right equipment to monitor the content of these cell telephone broacasts. They don't need to eavesdrop on the conversation. Just finding that a cell telephone is in a location known to be used mainly for illegal crossings is enough.