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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear esteemed colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Following the first experiential climate change game event on 13th June, American Red Cross VN will be organizing the second event, introducing two new games for CCWG and DMWG members. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Ms. Janot Mendler de Suarez and Mr. Ben Norskov (<i>pls refer to message below for their short bio</i>) will facilitate the session. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are now having 20-25 seats available, therefore early registration is welcome. Those of you who were unable to attend previous session are encouraged to join this time. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you are interested, please send me (<a href="mailto:nga.htq@care.org.vn">nga.htq@care.org.vn</a>) an email with your contact details before <b><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>August 22, 2013</span></b>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks and hear from you soon. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>--------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ha Thi Quynh Nga (Ms.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Climate Change Working Group/Disaster Management Working Group Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>92 To Ngoc Van Street, Tay Ho District, Hanoi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Tel: +84 4 37161930 (Ext: 305)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Fax: +84 4 37161935<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Mob: +84 (0) 983573009<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Email</span><span style='color:#1F497D'>: </span><span style='color:#1F497D'>nga.htq@care.org.vn</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Skype: ha.quynh.nga<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Wilderspin, Ian (Contractor) [mailto:ian.wilderspin@redcross.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:13 PM<br><b>To:</b> Ha Thi Quynh Nga <br><b>Cc:</b> Anh.Vu@amcross.org.vn; Vinh Vo Dinh; Repass, Kendall<br><b>Subject:</b> second serious games event, Hanoi Thursday 29th August<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Dear Nga,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Hi. I trust that you are well and not overly busy?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-AU>As you may recall, </span>under the USAID funded Vietnam Forests and Deltas Programme (for which the American RC is a Sub-recipient) some selected serious games will be trialed with different target audiences, local facilitation capacity built, games contextualized and new ones – appropriate for differing audiences and localities – developed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-AU>Following the first event that we held in June this year, we planned to hold a second serious games event in August. I am pleased to inform you that second visit by the experiential learning games facilitator, Ms Janot Mendler de Suarez (who facilitated the previous sessions) along with Ben Norskov is to take place from the 26<sup>th</sup> to 30<sup>th </sup>August in Hanoi. Their short bio follow:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify'><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Janot MENDLER de Suarez</span></b><span style='color:#1F497D'> is a Visiting Research Fellow with Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and advisor to the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s Collaborative Institute on Oceans, Climate & Security. Janot spent 11 years establishing GEF-IW:LEARN, the Global Environment Facility’s International Waters knowledge-sharing program involving 182 countries, and co-chairs the Global Oceans Forum Working Group on Oceans & Climate. Janot designs games with Oxfam, World Food Programme, Rockefeller Foundation, the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre and World Bank. Recent publications include: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-AU><a href="http://www.globaloceans.org/sites/udel.edu.globaloceans/files/PolicyBrief-Climate-Oceans.pdf">Ensuring Survival: Oceans, Climate & Security</a></span></span><span style='color:#1F497D'>, and </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-AU><a href="mailto:http://www.bu.edu/pardee/2012/11/14/task-force-gaming-climate/">Games for a New Climate: Experiencing the Complexity of Future Risks</a></span></span><span style='color:#1F497D'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-AU style='color:#1F497D'>Ben Norskov</span></b><span lang=EN-AU style='color:#1F497D'> is a game and interactive designer who grew up in the forested hills of Tennessee. He received his MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons the New School for Design. His work focuses on how game and interactive design can be used and misused to increase understanding of complex systems. He is an Adjunct Professor at Parsons and has taught at Kean University and Bloomfield College. He co-founded Antidote Games, </span><span lang=EN-AU><a href="http://playistheantidote.com/">http://playistheantidote.com/</a>, <span style='color:#1F497D'>which specializes in the creation of game-like interactions for the Red Cross, United Nations, and other organizations interested in innovative ways to communicate their solutions to the world's problems.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-AU>The objectives of their assignment are to develop a viable methodology to contextualise several serious games; further develop national capacity to run serious games; provide essential facilitation for an experiential learning games session and initiate the process towards the development of ‘indigenous, serious games’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-AU>On the Thursday 29<sup>th</sup> we would like to hold a half-day event for members of the CCWG and DMWG. We will facilitate two new games that we think will be interesting for your membership. I would be most grateful, if as last June, you would kindly invite your members to attend. I think - as before it will be on a ‘first come, first served basis’; we can accommodate 20-25 people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-AU>The event will be held at the <b>VNRC Training Centre, thôn Tựu Liệt, xã Tam Hiệp, huyện Thanh Trì, Ha Noi </b>from <b>8.15am to 12</b>, followed by lunch. After lunch, we would like a smaller group (perhaps 8-10 participants) to stay on for informal feedback, brainstorming with ourselves and colleagues from the VNRC on the development of ‘indigenous serious games’ until around 4pm. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>If you have any queries, or require further information, please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>I hope that we will get a good response from your membership for this event.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>With kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Ian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans","sans-serif"'>Dr. Ian F. Wilderspin<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans","sans-serif"'>Senior Delegate, Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change Adviser, American Red Cross<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans","sans-serif"'>7<sup>th</sup> Floor, 59 Quang Trung Street, Hanoi, Viet Nam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans","sans-serif"'>Adaptation Adviser, Vietnam Forest & Deltas Programme<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans","sans-serif"'>20/52 To Ngoc Van Street, Hanoi, Viet Nam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans","sans-serif"'>Email: <a href="mailto:ian.wilderspin@redcross.org">ian.wilderspin@redcross.org</a> |Skype: ianwilderspin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans","sans-serif"'>Tel.: (+84 4) 3942 2995 |Mobile: (+84 0) 91 538 496<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:#186829'><img border=0 width=161 height=70 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CE9833.68D22680"></span><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:#186829'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:#186829'>P</span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#186829'> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans","sans-serif";color:#186829'>Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>