[Reader-list] Invitation: Imagining Infrastructures

[tejas pande]

*Imagining Infrastructure*

*July 7-8, 2011*

*Le Meridien, Bangalore*

Dear all,

We at CSTEP are organizing a workshop titled “Imagining Infrastructures”, on
7-8, July 2011 at the Le Meridien, 28, Sankey Road, P.B. No. 174, Bangalore
- 560 052.  The main purpose of the workshop is to familiarize participants
with the use of modeling, simulation and gaming in policy analysis for
infrastructure design and operations, and highlighting the work we have done
in the Next Generation Infrastructure Laboratory (NGIL) at CSTEP.  Please
visit our website
(http://ngil.cstep.in/events/workshop2011/<https://webmail.ctrls.in/owa/redir.aspx?C=53d3c89970114b14b718b23933a1cfad&URL=http%3a%2f%2fngil.cstep.in%2fevents%2fworkshop2011%2f>)for
the latest update on the workshop.

This workshop will begin with an introduction to our work, and an opening
keynote address by Dr. Juval Portugali of Tel Aviv University, an expert in
the use of these methods in studying urban evolution.  Then each participant
will have the opportunity to play one of the games we have developed or are
using in our analysis.  Other sessions will present our work to date in
areas ranging from emergency response to rural energy and livelihood to
links between shelter, livelihoods, and mobility in Bangalore. The agenda
can be found at ngil.cstep.in

We hope you or someone nominated by you to represent your organization can
attend this unique workshop. We will limit the number of participants from
any individual institution to allow the widest range of representation. If
you plan to join us, please RSVP to Ms. Roopa at
roopa at cstep.in<https://webmail.ctrls.in/owa/redir.aspx?C=53d3c89970114b14b718b23933a1cfad&URL=mailto%3aroopa%40cstep.in>as
soon as possible on having a limited number of participants.

In addition to your confirmation we request that you provide a rank ordering
of your interest in the games listed below/in the attachment (with 1 the
game you are most interested in playing, and 4 being the game you are least
interested in).  If you do not select your preference, we will select for
you.

GAMES:

EMS Communication

The Emergency Management System Communication game has been designed to
demonstrate and understand the flow of information at the time of a
disaster, within and across the organisations/authorities involved in relief
and response activities. The players assume roles of various departments
involved in managing the disaster, such as the Police department, Fire
personnel, Medical aid, and District management authorities. The game begins
with a call from the scene of the incident by bystanders.

Energy Policy

In the coming 20 years India needs to construct an additional 650,000 MW of
electricity generation capacity – over 4 times the current capacity. In
order to get relevant actors acquainted with the results of these
research projects, the decision was taken to construct a game with this
challenge as the subject. This game was named the Indian Electricity Game.
By playing the IEG, the players gain insight in the various
economical, technical, political and managerial issues that play a large
role in the Indian electricity challenge.


Emergency 2012

The player is the officer in charge of everything at the site of the
disaster and sees to it that all vehicles and helpers are in the right
place, doing the right thing at the right time. This is where the strong
real-time strategy element of Emergency 2012 sets in. The player must make
clever use of vehicles and personnel such as police officers and rescue dog
handlers in order to bring everything back under control and save the
victims. In the multiplayer version players decide which unit (fire,
traffic, police, or medical) to control. Working in unison, the players have
to efficiently control the disaster.

We look forward to your participation in this exciting event.