[Sigia-l] Info Architects BANNED IN OHIO

[Rachel-Pace]

I have been following this conversation all morning and it could certainly
cause some problems but overall, I don't think that the state of Ohio had
done the research necessary to move this ahead.

See: http://iakm.kent.edu/ia.html - If they teach Information Architecture
at Kent State (in OH) then what?

See: http://www.state.oh.us/das/dcs/OPP/EAHome.htm - If the state government
has an Enterprise Architecture department with an EBusiness working group
and a Security Architecture group and a Network Architecture - then what?
Re-org the states IT department

I see it this way - Credibility vs. Oversite

Ultimately, when you look at the "practice of architecture" the fact that
people that architect buildings need the additional oversight of
licensing/certification - if they do it wrong and building falls and people
die.

Landscape architects are unlikely to kill anyone with a bad design -
although I have had a moment or two of concern about the occasional water
feature. They need licensing/certification for higher level of credibility -
there are educational requirements to be met, they spent more money learning
their craft than the average guy with a pick-up truck and a mower.
Licensing/certification allows them to charge more money, work on bigger
projects, get government contracts and so forth.

I have yet to cause any serious injury with an information design - you
can't really count that case of apoplexy a while back - but would
Information Architecture benefit from a higher level of credibility? Maybe.
But I don't have a degree in IA and I would hazard a guess that many of
folks in this group don't either - I know a few IA's with LIS degrees but
most have fallen into it from much different walks of life.

FWIW...