IT Conversations: David Bornstein - Globeshakers

IT Conversations: David Bornstein - Globeshakers

KeepMedia | American City & County: What if … ? mitigation issues

KeepMedia | American City & County: What if … ?

Habitat for Humanity plans ‘Operation Home Delivery’ for hurricane victims -- Habitat for Humanity Int'l 1

Habitat for Humanity plans ‘Operation Home Delivery’ for hurricane victims -- Habitat for Humanity Int'l 1

Welcome to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund Official Web Site

Welcome to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund Official Web Site

Katrina/New Orleans -Shrinking the Gap in the Homeland

Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog

Tom Barnett places the Katrina disaster and its aftermath in the strategic matrix he has now established in the Pentagon's New Map and his soon-to-be released A BluePrint for Action.


With a Bush White House on its heels, expect the midlevel bureaucrats who really
run Washington to be largely in control through the remainder of the term, and
here the System Perturbation that is Katrina will likely prove Chernobyl-like in its
impact: spurring the system toward a profound rethinking of what security really
is in this increasingly interconnected world (the loss of the node that is N.O.
being the biggest horizontal scenario for the long haul, revealing as it does critical infrastructural weaknesses in our economy). Rebuilding the devastated coast willbe a lot like shrinking the Gap, because to create real resiliency there we'll end up creating lots of new infrastructure where we now realize there was none—or at
least not nearly enough.

This will not be a rebuilding, but a re-imagining—just like we need to do in the
Gap. And here I think the country will end up regretting giving Bush four more
years because—again—this crowd lacks imagination.

Still, it's not just the military's turn toward the SysAdmin function that's likely to be accelerated, we're likely to see a new empathetic resonance across previously
firewalled sectors, like urban renewal and foreign aid, overseas crisis response
and homeland security, and public versus private responsibilities for ensuring
social resilience.

And in this process, I really believe we'll get stronger, get smarter, and move this
pile. In getting a real dose of what the Gap feels like within our borders, we
should start noticing the larger picture, the larger challenges, and the larger
opportunities

Katrina Disaster Delivers Shock to the System

AOL News - Disaster Delivers Shock to the System

Enterra Solutions Enterprise REsilience Management

Tom Barnett's partners in applying BPEL solutions to create resilient enterprises -based on Tom's New Rule Sets Project work. Essentially applying Tom's strategic thought leadership ( especially the prescriptions from the forthcoming book A Blueprint for Action) in designing and implementing cross-enterprise(s)Resilience management IT solutions.

I am already working with this group as they build out their consultancy.

Ties in with the metrics of SR.
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Enterra Solutions

Welcome to the Global Resiliency Network

Another network resource - participant in the New Map Game. contact them through Critt Jarvis or Enterra.

Welcome to the Global Resiliency Network

ManyOne – A New Way To Experience Tomorrow

A primary technology platform for our work - providing a rich media geobrowser and content that synchs well with SR - we will be exploring a partnership with M1 - where I serve as an advisor.
M1 has a number of portal initiatives that relate to SR - this site will give you a flavor.

I am trying to schedule our first F2F meeting at M1 HQ on September 19.

ManyOne – A New Way To Experience Tomorrow

RealFoundations | Industry Segments > Capital Markets

As the premier consulting firm dedicated to the Real Estate Industries, RF is a very good fit with Urban Logic and Sustainable Resiliency - especially in their work with real-estate related capital markets as commented on here.

I am a founding investor in RF and suggest we get together with them asap.

RealFoundations | Industry Segments > Capital Markets

Resilience -the theme is in the Zeitgeist - Pollard

Dave Pollard must be connected to my mind - here is his post on our common theme - I hope he will join with us in exploring the theme and helping in our various resilience science and systems application work.

Here finally is a fitting(pun not intended) focus for the AHA Discovery Network concepts we have been developing.

How to Save the WorldDave

XBRL: Thought Leadership -Price Waterhouse

A component of the measurement process for Sustainable Resiliency we should connect with PWC to explore a relationship

- XBRL: Thought Leadership

Resilience Science - Rebuilding New Orleans

On the Sustainability weblog WorldChanging, Alan AtKisson writes about rebuilding New Orleans -Dreaming A New New Orleans, Version 1.

World Changing is another potential alliance relationship

Resilience Science

HOME: Resilience Alliance (3.1)

HOME: Resilience Alliance (3.1)

We need to be affiliated with RA . this site provides a detailed look at the organization.

As a deliberately small yet extensively networked organization, the RA is highly adaptable and able to seek out opportunities for new ways of learning about and applying resilience theory.

Our approach involves three main strategies:

* Contributing toward theoretical advances in the dynamics of complex adaptive systems
* Supporting rigorous testing of theory through a variety of means, including: participatory approaches to regional case-studies, adaptive management applications, model development, and the use of scenarios and other envisioning tools
* Developing guidelines and principles that will enable others to assess the resilience of coupled human-natural systems and develop policy and management tools that support sustainable development

Governance:

* Established in 1999, the RA is supported by an international network of member institutions that includes universities, government, and non-government agencies.
* The Board of Directors includes a representative from each member organization and relies on an advisory Board of Science for direction and guidance.
* The Board of Science elects the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecology and Society, determines editorial policy for the journal, and oversees the quality of the science program.
* An Executive Director oversees the administrative structure of the Alliance. A Science Program Director co-ordinates the Science Program, including all activities funded under major grants and a Communications Program Director co-ordinates the Communications and Extension Program.

Snapshot sustainability indices

Snapshot sustainability indices
Originally uploaded by ddavison.

Dashboard of key sustainability indicators

Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog: Katrina's System Perturbation may feature many long horizontal scenarios

Tom brings some focus and sanity to the analysis of Katrina and how we face up to this newest shock to the system,
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog: Katrina's System Perturbation may feature many long horizontal scenarios

katrina's aftermath 01

katrina's aftermath 01
Originally uploaded by The NoniMan.

Hammered in the wake of Katrina

HURRICANE KATRINA

HURRICANE KATRINA
Originally uploaded by The NoniMan.

These folks could not get out of the Big Easy - so Xavier Bowie lies in his shroud - help could not reach him.

HURRICANE KATRINA - A Call to Action

A call to action for the Resilience team -

HURRICANE KATRINA
Originally uploaded by The NoniMan.

Victims of Katrina await help on a rooftop in New Orleans.