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A. About Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) ADPC is an autonomous international organization with a vision to reduce disaster and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by working with governments, development partners, international organizations, NGOs, civil society, private sector, media, and other key stakeholders. Established in 1986 as a technical capacity building center, ADPC has grown and diversified its expertise across social and physical sciences to support sustainable solutions for risk reduction across a broad range of specialist areas. ...

Optimism Bias: how to feel good and make poor decisions Optimism Bias: how to feel good and make poor decisions Advertising veteran Paul Cowan recently released a guidebook to navigating the challenges of commercial relationships, with content derived from empirical data, cognitive psychology, adaption-innovation theory, and personal experience from nearly a half century in the field. Below is an excerpt from ‘Connecting With Clients’ by Cowan. July 5, 2021 9:15 by PAUL COWAN “The next presentation will turn it around.” “They love the team in New York, so we’ve got the agency th...

These youngsters were on the march – to raise money for children less fortunate than themselves.

Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy in UK, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from BBC Media Action; closing on 20 Jun 2021

With self-driving cars around the corner, breakthrough research at Macquarie University is tackling the dangers that lurk when humans hand their...