REPLY SD Impact on National Government Policies (SD6149)

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Posted by  "Geoff McDonnell" <gmcdonne at bigpond.net.au>

It's interesting that both Jay Forrester's Books and Al Gore's film 
have been brought up during this discussion.

Perhaps to engage the public in the 21st century we might need to 
shift our focus from books to movies and other forms of online visual 
interaction like videogames.

Having pondered the underwhelming impact of SD on Health Policy over 
the years, there are two things I have been exploring.....

1. How exactly does policy happen and how can we make this better?
   IMHO, John Kingdon's work, is a good place to start here 
   (see http://www.rhpeo.org/reviews/2003/1/index.htm for this 
   and a few others )

2. As well as using SD to see what is possible, how can we improve 
   its capacity to also show what is possible? Again Edward Tufte's 
   new book Beautiful Evidence 
   http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_be has inspired me to focus 
   again on this area of dynamic evidence displays through the use 
   of compelling and engaging animations.

regards
geoff
Dr Geoff McDonnell

University of New South Wales
AUSTRALIA
Posted by  "Geoff McDonnell" <gmcdonne at bigpond.net.au>
posting date  Sat, 6 Jan 2007 11:00:46 +1100