{"id":393,"date":"2022-04-17T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/?p=393"},"modified":"2022-04-17T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T00:07:59","slug":"lrnt-526-%e2%94%82-activity-3-jigspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/lrnt-526-%e2%94%82-activity-3-jigspace\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT 526 \u2502 Activity 3 Jigspace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our team technology of choice is Jigspace, which in the most simplistic terms can be described as an augmented-reality (AR) presentation tool. After trying some tutorials and basic interactions with Jigspace, I decided to looker closer into the application\u2019s origin, funding, and privacy\/data terms of service (TOS). These were some specific topics I was particularly interested in through Selwyn (2010) describing the need to inquire on the connections between educational technologies (edtech) and how the interact with the real world economies, networks and society overall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the COVID-19 pandemic there was explosive growth and interest in educational technologies due to the necessity to socially distance. Highlighted by Williamson et al. (2020) edtech saw $16 billion dollars of venture capitalist (VC) investments in just 2020. This figure alone builds on the concern of \u201cprivate control in public education\u201d Williamson et al. (2020).<\/span><\/p>\n

Digging around some of Jigspace\u2019s blog posts<\/a> and community forums<\/a> I was able to find an interesting connection. I haven\u2019t drawn to any conclusions with this finding, but it definitely caught my attention. Jigspace received $1.4 million dollars in VC seed funds in 2020. One of the major contributors of these funds is a US company called General Catalyst. General Catalyst has over 1,000 active investments in various early-stage and growth equity investments. One of those investments happens to be a payment solutions application called Stripe ( large competitor to Paypal and Square). When browsing through Jigspace FAQs, one point asks about how is payment information stored? The explanation was \u201cJigSpace does not store any of your credit card information on our servers. All payment processing is handled by Stripe<\/em>\u201d. \u00a0DUN DUN DUN! Is this a conspiracy? Not likely, but an interesting connection and quite likely a purposeful partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is another layer of consideration on this connection with Stripe. In Jigspace\u2019s privacy policy<\/a> they have some easy to read bullet points, but they lack detail when you want to more critically examine them. One section highlights how Jigspace shares personal information and there are 3 bullets that likely allow Jigspace to share personal information with Stripe. Jigspace can disclose information to:<\/span><\/p>\n