New Media for Climate Change Action - Triple-C shows results
On September the 20th, MODUL University Vienna co-hosted two events addressing the importance of new media’s role in climate change. The day began with workshops and discussions organized by the Club of Rome European Support Centre within the Climate Change Collaboratory, and focused on climate change communication and the power of interactive tools, such as those developed by Triple-C, to support environmental collaboration.
Arno Scharl, Head of the Department of New Media Technology at MU and coordinator of the Triple-C Project (Climate Change Collaboratory) kicked off the event with the results of the Triple -C Project to get the ball rolling for a lively day of challenging discussions. Sebastian Seebauer from the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change at the University of Graz presented preliminary results from the Climate Quiz, a Facebook application in the tradition of games with a purpose developed within Triple-C.
The morning offered short presentations and discussion on the communication of science and environment, with the aim to explore the need for improved communication of science and environment, particularly with regard to policy makers. Contributing speakers from universities across Europe described their own positive and negative experiences, as well as what they feel is missing and how technology could play a role.
The second round of presentations and discussion on the ‘’Role and Potential of Information Technology’’, was moderated by Sabine Sedlacek, Assistant Professor at MODUL University Vienna’s Department of Public Governance. An international panel of practitioners in the use of technology for the visualization and communication of complex issues explored existing and future technological tools and their potential for improving the communication of science and the environment.
The evening’s crowning element was a public symposium on “Networking Knowledge – Networking People: New Media for Climate Change Action”, organized by the Vienna US Embassy.
This final workshop of the Climate Change Collaboratory project and public symposium featured keynote speakers David Herring, Communications Director at the Climate Program Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce, Prof. Helga Kromp-Kolb, the Director of the Institute for Meteorology and the Centre for Global Change and Sustainability at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, and Prof. Scharl.
The Climate Change Collaboratory is funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund as part of the Austrian Climate Research Program (ACRP).
More information on the project can be found at:
www.ecoresearch.net/triple-c
www.modul.ac.at/nmt/triple-c
