Uuve Sauga's blog

RDVP's web site has an internal collaboration space for fellows. When we started to use it, one of the most burning issues around it was privacy. People felt uneasy to enter blogs and messages until they understood where the line went between public and private (read only by fellows).

This summer my good friend offended my deeply. It hurt me so much that I decided to end the relationship.  He got deleted from my instant messengers, from my internet phone contacts, from all my address books, and cell phone. I was off line. A month later I suddenly got a MSN message from him with congratulations to the good news that I had shared through my MSN personal profile an hour ago. How come? That was not supposed to happen!! Apparently, my endeavors to be off radar failed.

At the seminar at our RDV Program and in his blog Marko Ahtisaari discusses on how cell phones challenge a human being to be “…always available. In the rush to connect we have not designed what it means to disconnect, to tune out.” The blog entry of RDVP fellow Erik Sundelöf proposes: “A solution for us would be to know when a person wants to be offline would be to bring your phonebook and your buddy list in the instant messaging software or the social community closer. By that you can in your cell phone specify if you are available or not.”