Social media simulation for terrorist events
A good part of what we do in a terrorism simulation is modelling the public and media reaction to...
Delivering Remote Crisis Management Exercises
This article was first written for BCI World 2020 which was virtual because of pandemic restrictions....
Simulating Influence Operations
An interesting paper caught our eye from Brookings entitled The Breakout Scale: Measuring the impact of...
Simulating the Human Terrain in Crisis Exercises
“Human terrain” is a term used to refer to the social and cultural aspects of an environment. When we’re...
Visual Identity in Social Media – How To Choose Your Persona’s Profile Picture
An interesting research paper fell across our desks this week. We thought it would be helpful to unpack...
COVID-19 is not the only virus we need to prevent
Of course it wouldn’t be long before misinformation and disinformation campaigns surfaced around...
Sensing the Real World
I’ve been having a lot of fun with the Circuit Playground Express (CPX)! It’s a £20...
Ditch crisis exercises with PowerPoint.
Crisis management exercises with PowerPoint will only get you so far. Let me explain. Watch out for...
Living on Mars
Excitement around a manned mission to Mars has been building over recent years and now it seems to have...
Mindset beats strategy
The first take-away from this great podcast, spoken by a former FBI spy, is that “mindset beats...