#0: The One With The Pilot Issue

It's summertime in the northern hemisphere, which is the perfect time for testing things out, running experiments, and generally messing around with things.

Which brings us to LinkedIn newsletters. Should WAO have one? I guess the only way to find out is to have a play and find out...

After years of having to keep our work on this quiet, we finally got the go-ahead to share the work we've been doing on Greenpeace's Critical Incident Training. Laura shared some details in the first part of a series of posts entitled Building Resilience Amongst Environmental Activists.

Greenpeace International had, for years, been running an in-person training program designed to connect people across the network together and teach them skills on how to manage complex activist situations. The in-person training revolved around scenario based, experiential learning. Essentially, people gathered together to role play potential scenarios and the trainers would gauge responses while connecting reactions to policy and procedures.

When the pandemic hit, they knew this critical training programme needed to be digitised, but they didn’t want to lose the experiential aspects of what was supposed to be a high stress training situation.

It's been a fun, challenging, and extremely interesting project to work on. Stay tuned for more posts about it over the coming weeks! ??

Also check out our reflections from recent events:

• ???? Embracing Open Recognition at the Badge Summit?????
• We Are Open at MozFest House

You may also be interested in our upcoming work around AI Literacy at the appropriately-named ailiteracy.fyi and that our Tao of WAO podcast episodes now have transcripts!

Signals

Links from around the web about things we think are (or could be) important relating to our work on sensemaking and digital transformation:

• Veilid: A secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy (The Register) — this work by a well-known infosec group could be very interesting at a time when the UK's controversial Online Safety Bill makes its way into becoming law.
• The Future Has Already Been Determined (Narrative) — Jon Kolko explains how it's important to understand not only technological developments, but also their cultural and social implications.
• What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing (Noema) — a fascinating post about what makes writing 'human' and the importance of subjectivity, context, audience, and nuance.
• Introducing Four-Step Authentication (The New Yorker) — poking fun at the hoops we have to go through these days to keep ourselves secure, it's worth thinking about how and why people give up privacy and security for the sake of convenience.
• Change the conversation in higher education: from climate change to system change (LinkedIn) — includes an important graphic when thinking about how systemic problems linger and are compounded by other factors.

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