I used to watch Dora the Explorer with my daughter, a cartoon about a “7-year-old girl who embarks on a trip in every episode in order to find something or help somebody”. In every show she consults the map in…
My appetite for risk and cheesecake
On a trip to Portugal and Spain last month, my brother elected to take a minor detour and visited Morocco in the midst of “a revolution sweeping the Arab world” as he wrote on his blog. He was monitoring the…
Globe and Mail – Oil producers risk
The Globe and Mail has a pretty cool Google Map of its assessment of the threats to the major oil suppliers. Who doesn’t love a map with red, yellow and green risk indicators! Have a look here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/a-risk-scorecard-for-the-worlds-oil-producers/article1921654/
Mark Zuckerberg is the new Moses
Something I read at Global Risk Community got me thinking about Mark Zuckerberg. Boris Agranovich summarized the impact of social media on current events in this post “Social media triggers a revolution in the Arab World“: In the previous issue…