The search for peer reviewed material across a multitude of scholarly databases reveals a huge swing towards the technical application of these technologies with scant resources specifically addressing the social and ethical applications of this innovation. In fact, no matter which variant of boolean the locus of material emanates from none other than MIT which given the topic doesn’t surprise me in the least.

Here I was thinking I would find reams of notes on innovations and classic inventions but all I can locate are paper after paper locked up in the patent pending cupboard. What surprises me though is the many examples of industry led BWC projects with unlikely associations from the likes of Epson which for years I thought was a computer ink cartridge distributor. In comes the discussions I had with PhD advisor Professor Teemu Leinonen.

It pays to look deeper and given the lack of any literature that is Asia-Pacific focussed on body worn cameras and their associations, applications and case studies from military, law enforcement and policing although I’m seriously wondering which way to turn next. Of course it will be a turn to the inventors, the creatives and the makers to find out what they are reading and which way I should turn on this one.

No one across the education technology space is enlightening me anymore than what I already know at this point yet I know there is a squillion related topic and themes which inform the larger picture here and thats what will matter most. The ‘Prototype As Hypothesis’ schematic by Professor Teemu Leinonen seems the most useful start when considering what sort of framework we want to begin thinking through as a frame that Kuypers often elucidates.