Serious gaming the challenges of humanitarian preparedness

Pablo Suarez (associate director of programmes at the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre) was kind enough to drop us a note highlighting some of the work that they have been doing over the past few years using serious games to highlight and address the humanitarian consequences of climate change and extreme weather events. Some of this work has been [...]

how not to run a simulation in the Caucasus…

It seems that Georgia’s Imedi TV has done its own version of Orson Welles’ famous 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, Caucasus-style: As al-Jazeera reports: “Russian tanks have invaded Georgia and the country’s president has been killed.” That is what Imedi TV, one of Georgia’s most popular television channels, reported on Saturday night. It also broadcasted video of what appeared [...]