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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2025
‘High Tech for the External Border’ is based on a radio documentary by Ralf Homann and our collaborative art-based research project The Better Think Tank Project – BTTP. The radio documentary ‘High Tech for the External Border’ was aired by German Radio ARD in a podcast for deep investigative approaches. The global border security market is prospering, and BTTP is always at the pulse of time! High Tech for the External Border deals with the externalization and outsourcing of border control from national governments to private firms. The absurdity of this concept is emphasized by using voices and quotes from the key actors. These actors are profiting from migration control and technologized borders but only as long as this form of officially unauthorized migration will continue as a threat to national security. In this respect, we can pose the question: does the European border regime conform more to the economic demands of a border security industry than a border police requirement or a humanitarian request?
Whether you are securing an international boundary or securing the perimeter of a facility, being able to remotely monitor a border is important. Because wireless technology can solve some of the challenges inherent in securing a border, wireless networks are increasingly playing a key role in the overall security design system.
Rely on BTTP as your partner in border security!
BTTP was founded in Stockholm in 2006 and is currently based in Munich.
TAKE G4S security check [Setting: Author and two guards]
[Author] Sir, is it possible to go to Security and Policing? [Guard] Do you have a pass? [Author] No […]
DRONE (UAV) DOWN
‘Security and Policing’. One of the world's leading high-level meetings of the security industry. In Farnborough, Greater London. March, 2016.
TAKE G4S security check
[Guard] E-mail? [Author] Yes, I have my email. [Guard] Could you show me the e-mail, please. [Author] Er, no, you mean this code, no, no, I didn't get it. [Guard] You should have it, otherwise you would not be able to get in. [Author] Ah, really?
DRONE UP
In front of the shuttle bus running between the station and the fair tents, the author is having a discussion with a security guard. His uniform has yellow reflective stripes.
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