Juanjuan Yin's Blog – June 2012 Archive (7)

WHICH great challenges and social problems should the EVOKE Network tackle next?

I think it's important to start changing the education in many countries. The future of a country builds upon its children. It's important to teach them moral standards and rules and not let them become corrupt politicians or political leaders. Educational concepts can be created and adapted to a certain country. It can include steps on how to make the country better and how to achieve the…

I picked "Coming to terms with uncertainty" since sharing uncertain information is the root for every crisis communication. The information is uncertain because it's not possible to see an exact outcome within a short span of time. Which is why it is very important to decide on the information you want to deliver to others. It's your responsibility to share valuable and correct information (even if they're uncertain) in order to prevent confusion and panic. This blog post covers 4 different…

How many kids play on a playground instead of sitting infront of their computers these days? More and more children are starting to play online games and chat with their friends via instant messengers. I doubt the numbers will decrease throughout the years since the number of online games increase monthly, sometimes even daily. Kids these days depend on their personal computers and one day they won't be able to live without them.



This online world will expand within the next 100…

The traditional knowledge success story I want to tell you about comes from Fiji. It is about the most commonly used item in Fiji which is also known as the "grass mat", a mat woven by hand from pandanus leaves.



I found the story pretty interesting because it is about the usage of a natural growing material without relying on any machines. In this…

This task was kind of difficult to finish. I tried to google and ask friends if they knew anything about the resilience plans of our city. But I couldn't find any satisfying answers. Upon reading blog posts of other agents I came across a pretty recent debate: Using social networks to communicate with each other. I couldn't believe I didn't think of the most recent and also one of the fastest method of expanding resilience nowadays.



It is a fact that facebook has been blocked in…

I believe that the fastest way of sharing information is to spread the news among big TV screens at crowded places. TV screens can always attract a person's attention and even if someone can't see the screen, he will still be able to hear the audio from the news. I can imagine everyone having an internet enabled mobile phone in 8 years. But it's not always possible to walk while looking at your phone, this could be dangerous when you're crossing a street as well. TV screens can bring the…

Braunschweig is the city I'm currently living in. It is a small and peaceful town which haven't had any unexpected incidents since I moved here. Since the weather is generally pretty stable in Braunschweig I can only think of 2 crisis which might occur: Sudden discovery of bombs from WW2 and breakout of an unexpected pandemic. I did experience the first crisis at first hand whereas the second one could happen in the future.



Discovery of bombs from WW2

During WW2…