TEST THE ZER0-m DSS (DECISIONAL/DESIGN SUPPORT SYSTEM)

!!! ONLINE NOW !!!!

Go to the DSS webpage here

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Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) Sapiens Productions and Zer0-M proudly present

“Waste not Waste”

Premiere on BBC World has taken place on:

Friday 25th Jan - 20:30 (GMT)
with repeats at 10:30 on Monday, 15:30 on Tuesday, and 02:30 and 08:30 on Wednesday.

We would appreciate your feedback on the film ! Please visit: http://www.bbcworld.com/Pages/ContactUsDepartments.aspx

As a pre-taster we have attached a small PDF article about the making of the film written by its director/producer Joshka Wessels. See also www.tve.org/earthreport for more background information about the film and various interesting internet links.

For more detailed information about the complete series of 13 Earth Reports this year see TVE's Press Release at http://www.tve.org/news/doc.cfm?aid=1867







The production of  “Waste not Waste” was generously supported by the EU-MEDA Water Programme:
Euro-Mediterranean Regional Water Programme for Local Water Management

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Technological Demonstration Centers:

keep updated with realisations and monitoring results

go to the TDC webpage here

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Supporting engineers to include the users' perspective when inventing, constructing and implementing water treatment technologies

Ph.D. Thesis of Dipl. Psych. Friederike Arnold

Funded by the HANS-SAUER-FOUNDATION

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Harald A. Mieg, Prof. Dr. Dirk Uwe Sauer, Dipl.Psych. Christian Hoffmann

Starting point: In order to successfully implement a technology, its technical functioning is a necessary condition. But it is not at all sufficient: As long as the users don't need the technology, or it is too expensive for them, or they don't know how to use it, the project is doomed to fail. Also, inadequate user behaviour may drastically reduce the lifetime of a technology. Thus the necessity arises to include the users from the beginning in the process of developing and implementing ["technology mediation"].

Target group: Engineers developing water treatment technologies for the application in threshold countries

Question: How can these engineers be supported in considering the users' perspective in the whole developing and implementing process?

Expected Results: Practical guidelines, workshop concepts and further tools for engineers and project managers.

Different activities are planned in cooperation with Zer0-M such as conducting expert interviews with the project partners, questioning the participants of the courses and socio-scientifically evaluating one of the pilot projects.

Contact Information

Dipl. Psych. Friederike Arnold

Mail: Humboldt-Universität, Geographisches Institut, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin

Phone: +49-(0)30-2093-5394

E-Mail: friederike.arnold@geo.hu-berlin.de

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Press events about the MEDA WATER CONFERENCE IN MARRAKECH

Ouverture à Marrakech de la 1ère conférence internationale "Medawater"
(8/6/2006)