My inbox is full of newsletters. I’m one of those people who subscribe to everything, because to paraphrase Emmett from the Lego Movie, Everything is Interesting. Having said that, I rarely read them, because of time or headspace. However, one release from the World Economic Forum caught my eye this week The Future of Financial […]
Read more "Disruptive innovations"Overnight the head coach from one of the Australian Rules Football teams, was killed, and his son arrested and charged with his murder. For some international readers, you may be wondering why this is important. Australian Rules is sometimes described akin to religion for many. His death has brought a significant reaction of shock and […]
Read more "Grief in full view"So I haven’t written much in the last little while. Things like Budgets, EOFY, HR, Recruitment, Credit Card statements, Tender Documents, quarterly reports, transferring vehicles, 5 year plans, one year plans, a week off in the mountains, a back injury, a re-injury (gee i’m getting old) have kinda sapped some of the creative and thinking […]
Read more "Sastrugi is two and a bit"Being in Japan has reminded me that I wanted to come back and write about two works, Underground and After the Quake, by one of favourite writers, Haruki Murakami. Murakami is a Japanese writer who the Japanese literary establishment hate, the public love, and generally the western literary establishment love. He writes mainly surreal fiction, […]
Read more "Talking (cats)astrophe-the writing of Haruki Murakami"So, after all that, here it is, the Sendai Framework. The closing ceremony had to be postponed as negotiations continued, apparently stuck on technological transfers. The four priorities are 1. Understanding disaster risk; 2 Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; 3 Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience; 4 Enhancing disaster preparedness for […]
Read more "Sendai Framework"The Hayabusa Super Express takes me at 350Kmh towards Tokyo, and home. That I’ll be glad of. It is hard to be away for periods of time. But I digress, I wanted to use your reading time to recount the evening session I went to on Archiving and Memorialisation of Disasters. This was one of […]
Read more "Hayabusa Day 5 Homeward Bound"I needed to change it up a bit today. Day four, and the energy is flagging a bit. I’d hate to think about how the negotiators are going. Apparently they were at it until 4 am this morning. As a result of less relevant (and perhaps less interesting) sessions, and the feeling of cabin fever, […]
Read more "Sasakawa Day 4: 3 WCDRR"This morning’s walk took me down a number of new streets. This town is really growing on me. I am building a mental map of it. I think I’m starting to get this thing called the 3WCDRR. So, there is one big room where member states stand up and read out prepared texts about their […]
Read more "Across the river Day 3 3 WCDRR"A beautiful cold crisp morning greeted us today in Sendai. Staying about 20mins walk from the conference centre is great, it allows you to think going to and from. I try to take different streets to mix it up a bit. Sendai is a town that has clearly been rebuilt time and time again, there […]
Read more "Billion 3WCDRR Day 2"Konnichiwa. The UN’s 3rd World Disaster Risk Reduction Conference is on in Sendai, Japan. And I’m here. And it’s big. No huge. Estimated 30,000 people here. This is nothing like I have experienced, sitting in audiences with Ministers, royalty heads of state, Ambassadors, presenting. It’s so high level, it’s nose bleeding stuff. The day started […]
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