Patrick Meier: Crowdsourcing Disaster Response in Iran – How Volunteers Bypassed the State
GeospatialCrowdsourcing Disaster Response in Iran: How Volunteers Bypassed the State
The double earthquakes that recently struck Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province killed over 300 people and left thousands more homeless. Iranians are par-ticularly adept at using Facebook and other social media platforms. So I was hardly surprised to learn that Iranian journalists launched a Facebook group to collect and and share reliable information related to the earthquake’s impact. Some of these journalists also visited the disaster-struck region to document the deva-station and aid in the relief efforts.
Existing Facebook groups were also used to bring help to those in need. One such group, called Female Equals Male, encouraged followers to donate blood at centers across the country. An Iranian who works at one of these centers was taken aback by the response: “… it was the first time that I have ever seen people being so eager to donate blood. It has always been us, pushing, advertising and asking people to do so.” Female Equals Male already had over 140,000 “likes” before the earthquake.
Graphic: Nine Remedial Capacity Boundaries
Analysis, Balance, Corruption, Earth Orientation, Geospatial, Graphics, Political, Reform, Resilience, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats, True CostGraphic: Nine Planetary Boundaries
Analysis, Balance, Corruption, Earth Orientation, Graphics, Reform, Resilience, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats, True CostAnthony Judge: Recognizing the Psychosocial Boundaries of Remedial Action
Culture, Economics/True Cost, Geospatial, Knowledge, Politics31st October 2009 | Draft
Recognizing the Psychosocial Boundaries of Remedial Action
constraints on ensuring a safe operating space for humanity
Planetary boundaries of the environmental system
Necessity for urgent action, globally, regionally and locally
Global remedial action boundaries
Substantiating the remedial capacity boundaries
Polyocular strategic vision
Systemic isomorphism
Representation of boundaries of coherence of complex systems
In quest of systemic functional connectivity
Anthony Judge: Paradoxes of Engaging with the Ultimate in any Guise
Culture13 August 2012 | Draft
Paradoxes of Engaging with the Ultimate in any Guise
Living Life Penultimately
Introduction
Forms of the Ultimate as imaginatively anticipated
Engaging with the Ultimate
Persuasion — and conversion of others to the Ultimate
Awaiting the Ultimate vs. Living Penultimately
References
Anthony Judge: 12 Mindsets Ensuring Disappearance of Employment Opportunities
Culture, Economics/True Cost5 August 2012 | Draft
12 Mindsets Ensuring Disappearance of Employment Opportunities
Towards a systemic reframing of the job culture
Introduction
Mindsets endangering employment
Job culture vs. Recreation culture
Future of employment as a work-recreation hybrid
Challenging case studies in employment
Boredom and unemployment
Sustainable employment as exemplified by dialogue amongst archetypes
Enactivating an archetypal pattern of employment and unemployment
Confidence embodied in an interwoven set of circulating currencies
Cycling between tangible and intangible
Sustainability: Doing nothing intelligently?
Conclusion
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