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OPINION: Deeper context required for future SEA Games performance

Nordin Abdullah speaking at the Stratcom Disaster Communication Forum held in Ankara, Turkiye from 25-26 April 2023. | NHA File Photo The classic knee-jerk reaction is to say, fire the coach, change the leadership of associations, and reduce the funding till they start performing better. This kind of negative reinforcement may work for kindergarten children, but we are dealing with high-performance adults – individuals much further along in their psychological and professional development journey. There is a need for a strategic shift in attitude and allocation if Malaysia is going to match its perceived vision of itself and the required image to be projected on the regional and global stage. How the nation competes, how an association competes and ultimately how an athlete competes is a function of the system that they are produced from. Do we have an understanding of the competitive landscape in which our national [...]

OPINION: Deeper context required for future SEA Games performance2023-05-25T15:17:23+08:00

Death by a Thousand Algorithms

More than 1,100 years ago, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was developing the mathematical formulas that we know today as algorithms which now have become so intertwined with the business fortunes of global media giants and the very fabric of geopolitics. A series of recent high level international reports have revealed pockets of Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB) in the realm of social media and the cyber domain. While the international reports highlighted their existence, they stop short of explaining their impact on various populations. The rise of an even more sophisticated form of activity has emerged – cyber-social attacks which brings together a generation of knowledge in cyber incursions coupled with the latest developments in social media manipulation. These aggressive, malicious, and targeted attacks have left crisis response teams in the business and political worlds with their heads spinning. The Crisis Management Centre issued a report stating that there were massive [...]

Death by a Thousand Algorithms2022-10-20T22:31:37+08:00

Crisis Communications : Strategies & Response

There is no time for lunch during a crisis, so before one hits your organisation grab a quick bite and learn a few things about what you should be doing. What is the "Google Battle" and why do you need to know how it works if you ever end up in a crisis? Imagine waking up this morning, there is 10 missed calls on your phone and countless SMS’s and WhatsApps from your boss and members of the media asking about the crisis that just hit your organisation, What will you do? how well have your prepared and what tools do you have in place to help you manage the next 12 to 24 hours?  Do you need help managing the next 7 to 14 days? In the Malaysian context crisis communication and indeed crisis management is still relatively misunderstood but time and time again we find ourselves in conversations [...]

Crisis Communications : Strategies & Response2022-02-03T10:49:21+08:00
 
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