disaster management

Bridging the Gap (or a Saturday “kind of” doing work)

Bridging the Gap (or a Saturday “kind of” doing work)

As a way to spend a Sat­ur­day I should really spend with my fam­ily and doing chores, attend­ing the Bridg­ing the Gap Think Tank wasn’t too bad an option. Sure, fam­ily is (almost) always bet­ter, but I’m pas­sion­ate about this stuff. I was sur­prised to find there was a rather heav­ier pres­ence of gov­ern­ment folk in […]

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Conflict and disaster management in a hyperconnected world — cooperative, collaborative, real time

Conflict and disaster management in a hyperconnected world — cooperative, collaborative, real time

This paper was deliv­ered at the Regional Senior Lead­ers Sem­i­nar in Cairns, Aus­tralia on 19 May 2011. A ref­er­enced ver­sion suit­able for print­ing is avail­able. Only con­nect! That was the whole of her ser­mon. Only con­nect the prose and the pas­sion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live […]

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Using social media in times of crisis

Using social media in times of crisis

On 4 April, I attended Social Media in Times of Cri­sis  —  a sym­po­sium held by the Eidos Insti­tute at the State Library of Queens­land in Bris­bane. The day was designed to address a num­ber of issues cov­er­ing pub­lic and gov­ern­ment use of social media tools in cri­sis sit­u­a­tions, use by first and sub­se­quent respon­ders and to examine […]

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