OBC | The creative use of visual and spoken narrative to help people and policy-makers understand...

Steven Bishop

Steven Bishop"University College London

Dream Fellowship

Steven Bishop"University College London

The creative use of visual and spoken narrative to help people and policy-makers understand our connected world

Dream Fellowship

Narratives for decision making

• Why do we need a new approach?

• Visual

• Spoken

• Comments

• We are faced with extraordinary challenges

• Balance of local and global influences

Responding to natural disasters

• Earthquakes

• Tsunamis

Climate variability

• Droughts

• Flooding

Population growth

Cyprus

Water wars?

Cyprus (2008)

Dead Sea

Energy • Reduced resources

• Increased demand

• Need for renewable energy

Terrorism

Social change

Connectivity

The unapparent connection is more powerful than the apparent one

(Heraclitus c. 500BC)

Message in a bottle

Floating football

Ski lift

Tohoku earthquake leads to change in German nuclear policy

12/05/2012 17:14BBC News - Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022

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Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022

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Germany's coalition government has announced a reversal of policy that will see all the country's nuclear power plantsphased out by 2022.

The decision makes Germany the biggest industrial power to announce plans to give up nuclear energy.

Environment Minister Norbert Rottgen made the announcement following late-night talks.

Chancellor Angela Merkel set up a panel to review nuclear power following the crisis at Fukushima in Japan.

There have been mass anti-nuclear protests across Germany in the wake of March's Fukushima crisis, triggered by an earthquakeand tsunami.

'Sustainable energy'Mr Rottgen said the seven oldest reactors - which were taken offline for a safety review immediately after the Japanese crisis -would never be used again. An eighth plant - the Kruemmel facility in northern Germany, which was already offline and has beenplagued by technical problems, would also be shut down for good.

Six others would go offline by 2021 at the latest and the three newest by 2022, he said.

Mr Rottgen said: "It's definite. The latest end for the last three nuclear power plants is 2022. There will be no clause for revision."

Mr Rottgen said a tax on spent fuel rods, expected to raise 2.3bn euros (£1.9bn) a year from this year, would remain despite theshutdown.

Mrs Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats met their junior partners on Sunday after the ethics panel had delivered itsconclusions.

Before the meeting she said: "I think we're on a good path but very, very many questions have to be considered.

"If you want to exit something, you also have to prove how the change will work and how we can enter into a durable andsustainable energy provision."

The previous German government - a coalition of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens - decided to shut downGermany's nuclear power stations by 2021.

However, last September Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition scrapped those plans - announcing it would extend the life of thecountry's nuclear reactors by an average of 12 years.

Ministers said they needed to keep nuclear energy as a "bridging technology" to a greener future.

Banking"

Financial crisis

Internet"

Mobile social networking"

UK riots ‘fanned’ by social media 13/05/2012 10:58London riots: BlackBerry to help police probe Messenger looting 'role' | UK news | The Guardian

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London riots: BlackBerry to help policeprobe Messenger looting 'role'Met police claim popular, encrypted and free Messenger servicefanned riots in Tottenham and helped organise looting

Josh Hallidayguardian.co.uk, Monday 8 August 2011 19.20 BST

BlackBerry has promised to help police investigate claims its Messenger service helped fuel and organise riots andlooting in Tottenham, north London. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

The maker of the BlackBerry, Research in Motion, said on Monday night that it wouldco-operate with a police investigation into claims that its popular BlackBerry Messengerservice played a key role in organising the London riots.

Scotland Yard vowed to track down and arrest protesters who posted "reallyinflammatory, inaccurate" messages on the service, and the social networking websitesTwitter and Facebook.

Patrick Spence, the managing director regional marketing at Research In Motion (RIM),confirmed that the BlackBerry manufacturer had contacted police to assist with theinvestigation.

However, the statement prompted fears from some BlackBerry users that their privatemessages could be handed over to the police.

"We feel for those impacted by the riots in London. We have engaged with theauthorities to assist in any way we can," Spence said. He added that RIM complies withUK legislation on the interception of communication and co-operates fully with theHome Office.

RIM refused to comment further or answer a series of questions on the statement.

BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) appears to be the favoured method of planning the unrestthat has swept across north London since Saturday evening. Unlike text messaging orTwitter, BBM is a free, private social network where almost all messages are encryptedwhen they leave the sender's phone – meaning that many messages are untraceable bythe authorities.

13/05/2012 10:58London riots: BlackBerry to help police probe Messenger looting 'role' | UK news | The Guardian